“DI, you should know this by now: anybody who seriously wants to be informed doesn’t tune into the nightly news. That’s just prime-time entertainment.”
– But what about the newspapers? Don’t the broadsheets and papers give us the facts?
“DI, get your head straight. Pick up any paper. It’s also an extension of the spectacle, but with the drawback of having no sound or movement. At best, it collects a few facts of questionable quality and some boilerplate opinions founded on clichés. But why do you need today’s fleeting facts? Tomorrow they’ll be irrelevant. Or the conventional wisdom that gets peddled like cheap spices? Intellectually, it’s empty calories—it offers zero real nutrition.”
– What, then, should I be doing?
“Replace the 100 daily facts with 10 core topics per year. When you choose, focus on what is permanent. Let your hunger for truth be satisfied with rich, substantive nourishment.”
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