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by swatcoder on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:08PM
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> There must have been 1930s Europeans who checked out of all those news about Hitler, after all. Must have been much better for their peace of mind, until one day suddenly it wasn't.
Since we're on the topic of being informed, there are many books and articles -- spanning almost 100 years now -- that you can spend some time with to better understand how all sorts of different "1930's Europeans" were relating to the happenings of their world.
As you suggest, that kind of insight can be really enlightening.
Most people would be way more informed about current events by sourcing, reading, and reflecting on something like that once a month while absorbing big events through occasional exposure and personal conversation than by anxiously drowning themselves in the noise of 24/7 engagement media.
Being informed doesn't come by catching every bit of rumor and ephemeral trivia scattered across Twitter, but by relating major events to a learned understanding of how they may impact people and communities. For many, this becomes apparent as they live through more news cycles as an anxious news junkie and recognize that only a tiny share of the things they became fixated with actually proved to matter and that most of the people who weren't so caught up in the noise were no less informed about the things that did.
It's actually not nearly so hard to be informed as you might think and a lot of the things that people to do make themselves feel more informed often just distract and confuse them.
Since we're on the topic of being informed, there are many books and articles -- spanning almost 100 years now -- that you can spend some time with to better understand how all sorts of different "1930's Europeans" were relating to the happenings of their world.
As you suggest, that kind of insight can be really enlightening.
Most people would be way more informed about current events by sourcing, reading, and reflecting on something like that once a month while absorbing big events through occasional exposure and personal conversation than by anxiously drowning themselves in the noise of 24/7 engagement media.
Being informed doesn't come by catching every bit of rumor and ephemeral trivia scattered across Twitter, but by relating major events to a learned understanding of how they may impact people and communities. For many, this becomes apparent as they live through more news cycles as an anxious news junkie and recognize that only a tiny share of the things they became fixated with actually proved to matter and that most of the people who weren't so caught up in the noise were no less informed about the things that did.
It's actually not nearly so hard to be informed as you might think and a lot of the things that people to do make themselves feel more informed often just distract and confuse them.