> Your argument rests on the flawed premise that the reader is a passive fool waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration. Is this really so flawed, at

> Your argument rests on the flawed premise that the reader is a passive fool waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration. Is this really so flawed, at least in aggregate? Large parts of our society judge people by their awareness of these wider events over which they have no control, and by the value judgments they make concerning those events. When this is what it takes to be considered a good person, people will line up to do it: passively waiting to be spoon-fed their morning panic ration, just as you describe.