I hate everything.

[Sympthsical]

7. Take a break from media

There's nothing going on that doesn't keep for several days to several weeks.

If I had read no news this week, not a single political item, my life would be more or less the same.

I take entire weeks off. It's very nice. Read books, catch up on shows, play new games, listen to music, do projects around the house. I have never returned from one of these news vacations and thought, "My god, I have just been walking around all month not knowing what Donald Trump tweeted?!"

We know what the country is right now. We know the contours. We also know who we're voting for more or less.

I find people who immerse themselves all day every day in politics, media, and the parasocial components of both tend to fray at the edges until they start falling apart. It's just not good for mental health to be glued nonstop. People start sounding like lunatics. "Being informed" isn't really badge-worthy if the information is fleeting and ultimately meaningless three days later. That's not being informed. That's just being occupied.

Pretend it's the 80's or 90s. Watch a few things at 5:30pm and call it a day.

It's unnatural for the human psyche to know and/or worry about everything going on in the entire world. It's too much. We're not emotionally built for it. Our psychology cracks under the weight.

Breaks are healthy.