Well, 2025 is over. Looks like keeping our sanity in 2026 will be harder.

Three YouTube videos to maintain your sanity:

Required listening for souls committed to humankind and nature’s sustainability. 

Below are three 'must watch and LISTEN to' YouTube videos.  Seriously!  If you don’t like reading or hearing the surge of important daily news events, these two people condense the accumulated knowledge you would have - if you closely followed the last few thousand days of key news events. 

And now, how your personal experience of ‘why our civilization’s decline in caring' and our cognitive understanding of the cumulative disruptive consequences -- due to our species lack of collective inaction, is mostly explained by two people. 

Humankind’s future now depends on treating our desensitization of empathy and Truth decay. Disinformation, misinformation, and lack of wisdom is causing increasing Moral Injury in most people. Moral Injury is different than fear-based PTSD. This injury is that discomforting feeling we get when vital governance systems that we have always depended upon - are failing- and literally killing people. 

This discomfort even harms the immune system.  Neil deGrasse Tyson’s ‘three types of truth” (personal and political truths in our mind, and cognitive Truths based on reality) offers us a powerful means of addressing this injury.  Any species failing to adapt - will have increasingly lethal consequences.  In biology, species that fail to adapt to change are called extinct.

 

#1. TEDx Duke, "We’re all being lied to: here’s why no one cares anymore." Skylor Hughes. 15 minutes, 30,000 views., 13 days ago  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9b7ZQh28GY&t=21s

What happens when lying no longer shocks us and dishonesty becomes normal? In this mind-opening talk, Skylar Hughes, a journalist and psychological researcher, explores why our outrage at fake news has faded and what this means for democracy. Hughes reveals how repeated exposure to lies changes our brains, shifts our social norms, and threatens our moral compass. She is a Robertson Scholar at Duke University, combining psychological research with frontline experience in combating misinformation. As part of CNN's fact-checking unit, she verified over 100 articles, broadcast packages, and scripts, serving on the Republican National Convention live fact-checking team. Her expertise extends to the Poynter Institute, where her content reached over 150,000 people.

A Kenan Ethics Fellow, Hughes has explored the moral dimensions of misinformation and digital communication. At Duke’s Marsh Memory Lab, she secured grant funding to lead experimental research on misinformation correction. Her interdisciplinary work provides critical insight into how misinformation shapes society.

Skylar believes accurate information is a right, not a privilege. Upon graduation, she aims to merge her experience in journalism and psychological research to study misinformation’s impact in the 21st century. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

#2 Yuval Harari:  True wisdom only comes away from the clamor of society “Why the Wisest Minds are Quietly withdrawing" – YouTube  ‘Future of Being’, two weeks ago.  21 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tTzMiC3Abik 

He covers why most thoughtful minds no longer speak, no longer debate, no longer try to be heard?   In this powerful reflection his ideas explore the quiet fading of true wisdom from public life — and the unsettling forces driving it.

It reveals why many highly conscious thinkers are stepping away from society, choosing solitude over noise, and depth over digital chaos. From Seneca to the modern world, history echoes the same pattern — and this time, the silence may be lasting.

 

#3 Yuval Harari.  In 2026, Most Will Break Psychologically — For Not Understanding This 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-fQRQcusmY

24 minutes 52 seconds YouTube video

A silent psychological collapse is coming—and if you don’t understand this one truth, you’ll feel lost, anxious, and mentally overwhelmed in 2026. This video exposes Harari’s most disturbing insight about the human mind, AI pressure, and emotional survival.  Watch now before confusion becomes your new normal.

What You’ll Learn: how AI reshapes identity, why most minds crack under uncertainty, and how to stay mentally strong when reality shifts fast. Timestamps:

 00:00 😨 The unseen mental crisis—why awareness is urgent 

05:42 🧠 Identity under attack—why minds feel unstable

12:18 🤖 AI vs meaning—why confusion grows

18:07 🔥 Emotional survival tools—why this saves you

24:52 🌍 The choice point—why understanding changes everything

Why Watch This Video?

✅ Feel clarity instead of fear

✅ Turn anxiety into awareness

✅ Prepare your mind for 2026

 Consider hosting a face-to-face viewing/discussion with friends or colleagues committed to adapting to this evolving reality.  Our need to adapt, if we intend to survive, thrive, and perhaps flourish in the unimaginable times ahead, is vital to understand that our existing systems are outdate and have been for decades.

 

Below is a C-span program on the media and our need for Truth.   

Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism   https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/walter-cronkite-awards-for-excellence-in-tv-political-journalism/670381  

Recipients of the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism participated in an award ceremony in Washington, DC. Winners included comedian and The Daily Show Host Jon Stewart, former CBS Evening News Anchor John Dickerson, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander, "60 Minutes" Correspondent Scott Pelley, MS Now host Rachel Maddow, Telemundo news anchor Julio Vaqueiro, and other journalists from PBS Newshour and local stations.

GET quote Regarding 1st Amendment and the role of the Media. !:  Martin Kaplan is an American professor and former studio executive and writer. He teaches at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and is the founding director of the Norman Lear Center for the study of the impact of entertainment on society.