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As a follow-up to the last post, there IS the question of whether it's right to disconnect from the news just as your government seems to be entering some sort of constitutional crisis. Of course, the question of whether this information has immediate relevance or is in any way actionable is still relevant.

And as counterpoint to the last post, one might argue the point of "keeping up" is to maintain context of the world around us? If so, how much context might be necessary? Context can be a fairly deep rabbit hole but is tightly intertwined with relevance. Even then, there might be a lot that is technically relevant but not immediately relevant, and it is possible that immediate relevance might be more than your average person has the time/brain power to analyze and stay aware of on a day-to-day basis. At the end of the day we are a species constrained by limitations in time, attention and multi-tasking capability and the skill we have spent a long time evolving is discerning what is MOST relevant. What is the most important context for what I am going to do today?

I am not sure we are good at distinguishing between what is immediately available and what is relevant when the information volume gets too high. My suspicion is that the first step in attention triage is turning the spigot down a bit in order to regain a conscious sense of priorities and principles.