I met a girl in university who didn’t read or watch any news. She’s living just fine in her little bubble. Really, she makes her middle class salary, goes on vacations, lives a full and interesting life filled with people and experiences to keep her busy. If her life is poorer for not getting herself worked up in front of the newspaper, you really wouldn’t know it.

Say you read a news article about a revolution in Khazakstan. General So and So has done this and that, Borat is awaiting execution, and America is tabling a UN resolution to restore freedom to the poor Khazak oil pipelines, I mean people. Soooooooo, what does knowing that stuff get you? Even if you have significant investments in companies doing business in Khazakstan, the market will move the price of your shares before you’ve even had your morning coffee. I guess you can go protest in front of the Khazakstan embassy, but then, if you really pay attention to the news, you could be protesting countries and issues for 365 days a year.

The news is full of bias and lies while the stories lack context. There’s really no point in developing this paragraph further, because if we’re the somewhat aware smarty pants we think we are from reading the news, we know it to be true.

The news is a mind rotting waste of time that does nothing to increase our happiness or productivity.

I read the news for an hour last night and went to bed with the shakes. Fuck that mental poison shit. The time spent reading the news is better spent cultivating skills, relationships, aesthetic tastes, or even masturbation techniques.