News Disconnects Us From Ourselves

At its core, the news is opposed to introspection. It doesn't want us to know ourselves better and compulsively disconnects our emotions from their true but often hard-to-grasp targets.

While pretending to inform us about the state of the world, the news has become a formidable instrument of self-forgetting.

We would surely be made to feel untenably odd if we decided - as really we should - that we were from now on going to check the news only once a week, and the rest of the time devote ourselves to exploring the contents of our soul via meditative reflection.