During the last ‘election summer’ things went haywire but ultimately nothing meaningful really happened, and not a whole lot really changed as a result of that unrest. This time things are going haywire again, and it seems like something big will happen but people thought that the last time… Would it just be better to ignore everything and go work on yourself, your skills, etc. or consume whatever thing is going on? The constant fear that’s being pushed is so emotionally exhausting… I’m finding it harder to care about these things without anything major happening, as shitty as that sounds
My thinking here is that I don’t need to pay attention to the news. When something happens that I should know of it’ll find its way into my awareness one way or another. I don’t need to go looking for it. If by ignoring the news I manage to avoid hearing about something entirely then it wasn’t important to begin with.
Personally I only go to one news site few times a day and I just scroll past most of it. On social media I block almost all of it, especially relating to politics. I’m still able to discuss current events with people and the topics that I cant, for example what some individual politican has said or did I’m not interested to discuss anyway.