Well congrats @cryptogee for another fine article.
I tried your approach and although is was good and I was less stressed and became much more open to the little things of life, it appears it is not what the community needs. I am part of the middle class in Romania, a country filled with corruption, greed and lack of education, ruled in the last 27 years by the same people (more or less). Cutting all ties with the news for a while is good but it created a "bubble" around me and others like me. This bubble made it possible for the most corrupt to get closer and closer to the less educated and less prepared people in this country and won the last elections with a staggering percent :
45% for socialists ( heavily corrupt - in the system for 27 years )
20% for liberals ( also corrupt - also in the system for many years)
8% for reformists ( not corrupt - not in the system - i would dare to say the good guys)

This happened solely because the middle class people shut off the media and politics, being depressed by the lack of change and lack of engaging policies and didn't go to vote, didn't have info on the outcome or didn't care to vote at all.

The most depressing of all is the fact that while the young educated people voted with the progress, their parents or grandparents didn't. Huge arguments were raised and families were put under a great stress after the elections.

After the corrupt came to power they tried and still try to block the justice, to change the laws, to sack whomever opposed them and so on.
The leaders of the winning party are convicted felons, the leaders of the houses are already convicted and waiting for more convictions as we speak and they fight the very democracy and the EU.

This was a huge protest in which 600,000 of us showed them we had enough; they ignored us:

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Long story short: Do not cut yourself from the media, it may sound masochistic but mingling with the mass of the people brings you close to the fake news problem, to the lack of education, to their real problems which were never listened to, you get to interact with them, counter them, report them, show arguments and at least fight the plague actively.
I think this crisis is similar to the one getting Trump voted.
I am sorry for a long post I have a lot of ideas and many things were tried locally and I can discuss more if there are people interested in ways to counter the post truth world we live in.

I wish all of you an enlightened day!