I have unsubscribed from the huffington post, turned off all notifications from facebook and as I get other notifications from various stupidity machines I am going to turn them off and unsubscribe. I would have deleted my Facebook account but I am going to use it as a private messaging service to notify people to come look me up here and I have some business uses that will take me some time to move to a different platform. I blame social media for this theft of the promise of the United States. We have turned ourselves into (worse) idiots. The hate and stupidity that I was seeing across social media primarily from people I had decided to block and ignore turned out to actually be the country I live in. I think that method of viewing the world and interacting with it is poisoning our brains and I am going to unplug from it. Of course there are many other reasons to stop using Facebook, but I think protecting my mental health has now been added to the list.