When to check out of the discourse

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock at the Oscars -- you could live in a cave and still know about this, and be subject to the blizzard of opinions about it. This incident exposed the depths of my phone addiction as I clicked on link after link to articles that had just about zero impact on anyone's life. The media frenzy was a bit like a siren warning us all to step away from our screens.

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