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>But those problems are fundamentally legislative, and won't be solved by treating the symptoms. Voting for new legislators isn't the way for citizens to addre

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  New legislators won't help if they're not focused on the issue, or don't know what to do with that focus. (As a Democrat, I'm exceedingly frustrated with my party's lack of action on voter suppression, electronic voting machines, and other hazards.) But that ignores my other point... that nothing about this is actually a matter of privilege. Reading books for education and/or pleasure does not interfere with keeping up with current events. And to the original article's point, the constant news feed drives anger, outrage, poor decisions, and a skewed and usually incorrect view of the facts. May I suggest a good book on this topic? Read Factfulness, by Hans Rosling. His takedown of all the ways our brains lie to us, and how the media feeds those inherent flaws in our thinking, blew my mind and significantly focused how I look at the world. As he points out, even the smartest and best educated people in the world - business and political leaders, graduate students, etc - actually perform worse than random chance on simple factual questions about our world. It's amazing. Read it!