How to increase your intellegence

I've found that the easiest way to increase your IQ is to stop paying attention to the mainstream media.

Go ahead and discontinue your cable service if you still have it.

Cable TV is retarded. The worst instance of this I can think of is TMZ.

Luckly, I've never sat down and watched a full episode of TMZ, but from what I know; TMZ is a program about a group of paparazzi that dig up whatever trivial fact about celebrities.

Speaking of celebrities, I could never get involved watching anything on TV like:

Dancing with the Stars
American Idol
Master Chef
MTV (Jersey Shore, Teen Mom 2)
Hoarders
Extreme Couponing
Here Comes Honey BooBoo
Anything Miley Cyrus or Justin Beiber is doing right now

I could only imagine that the average American that does keep up with this stuff dedicates at least one or two hours a day to keeping up with celebrities.

That is at least one or two hours that could be dedicated to something more useful like working out. Or:

Spending time with your family
Planning your personal finances
House work
Freelance work
More interesting hobbies
Internet research

The biggest source of garbage I want everyone to avoid is the news.

Most of the news on TV is not news. It is complete garbage that bears no relevance on the life of the average American.

The worst case of this is, when a few months back, a girl was being interviewed by CNN because she worked at a clothing store and worked the cash register while Barack Obama paid for some clothes.

This story went on for about 5 minutes. The whole time, I was just thinking. "Why is this news?"

Anyway, if you watch the news for one day, you have seen every news story you will ever see.

On any given day, the news will put on the following stories.

1. Someone went crazy and shot/stabbed some people in some school/mall/gas station/neighborhood.

2. Some celebrity is hooking up/breaking up/cheating/marrying on some other celebrity.

3. Celebrity DUI or criminal activity.

4. USA is screwing up some country in the Middle East or some Middle Eastern countries are screwing themselves up and USA is thinking about intervening there.

5. One political party is blaming the other political party for screwing up America.

6. There will be a social justice story most likely involving the LGBT community, racism, sexism, immigration, or a combination of all four.

7. Some big corporation will be blamed for trying to make money.

8. Lastly, there will be a common sense story. A scientific study will show that jogging for 15 minutes each day will lower your risk of heart attack or turnips will decrease your risk for stroke.

There you go. I've spoiled every single day of news for you.