Ok, I'm just wondering... how much time to you all spend on parapoltical/conspiracy/fortean research?
I mean, there are so many rabbit holes, and they all go so deep. So many distractions, so much disinfo/misinfo/noninfo to sift through. Add to that some of it is difficult to fully understand (financial news for non-financial types, etc). It can take a LOT of time up.
Some who are writers, like Jeff, need to put this time in for their work. But many of us maybe have other things we should be doing and are compelled because, as the song goes, "We Have to See, We Have to Know..."
So how much time do you spend on research? Also include activism, and general community stuff, like posting to the Lounge on RI.
For myself, I'd say 2-3 hours - some days less, some more, but that seems about average. I'm a self-employed work-at-home type, but I sometimes have a hard time getting to the the work because of my interests and the endlessness of the Internet. I have no real rationalization for this besides the desire to be well-informed and know as much of the truth about what the hell is really going on as I can...I think some day I'll get up to writing some fiction based on all this research, but that is not really practical. I am using some of the research in a game I am designing, in an allegorical way mostly, but that I think is more an effect of the research than its cause, if you know what I mean.
On a related note, and I wanted to add another poll,
does your research cause you any anxiety? It does me, when I really think about the gravity of what we are up against. Honestly, quite a bit of anxiety. My partner helps with this, keeping me from going over the deep end. Eris bless her