Parent here. I don't think I said we would be better off with no awareness of the broader world. I said we would be better off without Google News and the kind

Parent here. I don't think I said we would be better off with no awareness of the broader world. I said we would be better off without Google News and the kind of megacorp news networks it features. I also said that our awareness of issues we can actually affect should outweigh our awareness of things we can't. If you know ten of your neighbors by name, you're in a vanishingly small minority in much of the Western world today. I would happily take a bet saying no one in this thread can name ten of their neighbors, what they do for work, and two things those people care about, without counting more than two from the same household. That is "some crazy dark world shit" to me. People don't know the people who spend half their lives within a mile of them, and yet they can spout of random information about dozens celebrities or conflicts or politicians thousands of miles away. Humanity is weaker because of this. Only when we can do this better can we afford to try to extend our awareness.