I get it, and totally agree on 'mental health' - but the message is misplaced. Ignorance is bliss, and 'eternal vigilance' is the thing necessary in order to k

I get it, and totally agree on 'mental health' - but the message is misplaced. Ignorance is bliss, and 'eternal vigilance' is the thing necessary in order to keep our system going. If we could all be 'reasonably informed' - so many problems would be avoided. 'Good' countries fail from within, and Tyrants come to power on a wave of populism which is ultimately based on misinformation. We really do need to pay attention, but the issue becomes much more difficult in an era wherein main stream outlets have jacked up their bias, where Twitter advocates saucy, false and vindictive statements, where the Internet has enabled every Yahoo (pun intended) to have a soapbox and provided very little facility to wade through the morass to find reasonable voices. Often the reasonable voices aren't actually reasonable. A lot of intellectual voices over-state the issues. It's really, really, hard. Instead of 'disassociating' entirely from the news, one could chose to 'disassociate from any political ideal' and just read from a variety of sources, and less often. Sometimes the high brow places (i.e. FP or FT) have less audacious triggering. Some high quality outlets that have known biases are not a good place to spend a lot of time. Check the headlines from state propaganda. Read the English news from other countries occasionally - this is quite refreshing because the foreign perspective tends to entirely deconstruct the local rubbish back and forth by not giving it much credence. Get out of a political headset and don't over consume, but pay attention. It's kind of like voting, it matters collectively.