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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bill Zebub" data-source="post: 9878911" data-attributes="member: 7031982">I don't know if that's true.  When there's something important going on in the news, I sometimes open an Incognito tab to check out what FoxNews is saying even though I know — I know — what it does to me. The Incognito tab is not for privacy. It is for containment. A futile ward against what seeps through regardless.It began innocuously enough. A headline. A chyron. The particular amber glow of the site's palette, which I have since come to understand is not a design choice but a frequency — a specific degradation of the visible spectrum that the human optic nerve was never meant to process in sustained doses.The first symptom is always the comments section. I don't read it. I can't read it, not anymore, not since the Incident at 2 a.m. during the mid-terms when I scrolled too far and the usernames stopped being names and became coordinates. I closed the laptop. My houseplants were facing a different direction in the morning. I don't have houseplants.The second symptom is harder to describe. A loosening of what I can only call narrative coherence — the comfortable assumption that events have causes, that causes precede effects, that Tucker Carlson's eyebrows are the product of ordinary human musculature and not something that opened long before television existed.I check in, yes. Briefly. As an anthropologist might observe a ritual from a respectful distance. But the distance is not always consistent. There are nights when I look up and the incognito tab has been open for four hours and I have thirteen new opinions about the Federal Reserve and a deep, sourceless certainty that something enormous is moving just beneath the surface of a news ticker, and has been moving for a very long time, and is almost done moving.I always clear my history.It doesn't help.</blockquote>

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