42/ So stop blaming the media platforms for your own wallowing in small-minded Twitter gossip about people. [Train] to the point where you decide whether to be there or elsewhere.

They have given up, to a great extent, the amenities and achievements of civilization: solitude and leisure, the sanction to be oneself, truly absorbed, whether in contemplating a work of art, a scientific theory, a sunset, or the face of one’s beloved.

Reading the news doesn't make us informed, just the opposite. And our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long term.