Things You Notice When You Quit the News
I can&#x27;t really get onboard with this.  A lot of the comments here, and the commentary in the article itself, talk about how depressing the news is, how biased it is, about Gell-Mann amnesia -- and they&#x27;re all right.  But from my own experience, the people I know who don&#x27;t follow the news (either at all, or extremely minimally) are <i>spectacularly</i> ill-informed; they get their news either third-hand (which suffers from all of the aforementioned problems <i>plus</i> being re-reported poorly), or not at all, and operate with only the sketchiest understanding of what&#x27;s happening in the world.  They aren&#x27;t going to &quot;read three books on a topic&quot; (from the article), they&#x27;re just going to remain oblivious.  And that&#x27;s far worse, in my opinion.