If The Rest Of Us Have To Deal With Everything, So Should He

The weekend's big media outrage was about the guy in Ohio who decided that he was so upset with Trump and the avalanche of news that he would totally unplug from the news, preferring to totally avoid all reports of everything. He's aggressive about it -- friends can't talk to him about the news, local businesses have to turn off the news when he comes in, it's total. And it's spectacularly privileged and stupid, because there are things all citizens NEED to know, things that help prevent others like the government from getting away with stuff. If you don't keep reasonably informed, you can't knowledgeably vote, you can't know about things that will affect you, you.... oh, you know all this. What's REALLY astonishing is how the New York Times is glorifying this guy's willful stupidity as something noble. (The New York Times)

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