Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.
I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.
I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter media for you, which is why I look at around 15- 20 of these sites every day.
It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.