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Nathan Grey

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Nathan Grey
21 May 2025

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Media studies; Time management; Self-help & personal development

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Breaking F
*ckn News: How the News Revolution Transformed Our Minds and How to Take Them Back

Remember when ""news"" meant a 30-minute broadcast or a physical newspaper with actual fucking boundaries? That world is dead. What we've got now is an endless catastrophe stream-democratic collapse predictions, Ukraine frontline updates, Middle Eastern escalation-each crisis bleeding into the next without resolution, all delivered through algorithms explicitly designed to hijack your dopamine pathways and keep you anxiously scrolling while your cortisol levels silently skyrocket. This isn't evolution; it's a hostile takeover of your consciousness that's masquerading as ""staying informed.""

This isn't some holier-than-thou lecture about digital wellness or a ten-step program promising Internet salvation through mindfulness apps. It's a raw, unflinching examination of how our information ecosystem has become a sophisticated psychological strip mine-part of an attention extraction economy that treats your focus as the most valuable commodity of the 21st century. Every headline, every notification, every ""breaking news"" alert is meticulously engineered to keep you consuming regardless of the cost to your mental health, relationships, or ability to actually function in reality.

Through brutally honest personal narrative and cutting neurological insights, Nathan Grey chronicles his own journey from self-proclaimed ""informed citizen"" to digital addict, revealing how crisis consumption physically broke his body before he recognized what was happening. His retina literally detached before he could see the connection between his ""responsible"" news habits and his collapsing health.

Key revelations include:

How your Stone Age brain processes headlines about democratic collapse as immediate physical threats Why ""staying informed"" has become the perfect socially acceptable addiction The measurable physical damage your headline habit is silently inflicting Practical, bullshit-free strategies for breaking free without becoming uninformed

This isn't about ignoring reality or becoming blissfully ignorant. It's about reclaiming your most precious resource-your irreplaceable consciousness-from systems explicitly designed to extract maximum engagement regardless of human cost.

Part memoir, part neurological investigation, part philosophical reckoning, ""Breaking F
*ckn News"" is for anyone who's ever felt that strange combination of dread and anticipation when reaching for their phone-anyone who suspects their ""information diet"" might actually be consuming them.

Your liberation from the technological trap begins with this uncomfortable question: Is your relationship with information enhancing your life, or merely extracting from it?

By: Nathan Grey
Imprint: Nathan Grey
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9789090402680
ISBN 10: 9090402683
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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