is it immoral to not pay attention to what is going on in the world?

there are so many aspects of "current events" that don't really matter, particularly getting down the rabbit hole of Nate Silver poll watching, etc

wrt the election I'm pretty checked out except for stuff I see on ilx.

at a certain point I realized the only action I was going to take was sending some money to the Biden campaign and voting. outside of that nothing I could read or think about the election matters at all.

Please advise list of certified and approved distributors of news suitable for moral edification.

at a certain point I realized the only action I was going to take was sending some money to the Biden campaign and voting. outside of that nothing I could read or think about the election matters at all.

I don't have any money to spare, and I've already voted. So...yeah.

I’ve been thinking of taking a media fast until the U.S election. I’ve been following the news obsessively since 2015 and at times I’m not sure why I am doing this to myself. Everything is horrible and it only makes me feel worse but I feel like I have some obligation to track it. Also it’s hard to look away from revolving disasters. I took a one-week break at the height of the coronavirus in NY—ambulances were going by every 10 minutes and I just binged Schitt’s Creek because I couldn’t handle it anymore. I still feel a little guilty that i felt I wasn’t strong enough to keep up with the death count at that time, but it was something I felt I had to do for my sanity. Maybe a combination of the news media and the objectively dire state of the world makes some of us feel that it’s somehow necessary to bear witness. Also, I follow way too many journalists on Twitter—so even my downtime leads me right back to the media. Thanks for posting this—it’s something I’ve been struggling with and am still trying to reconcile.

I realized yesterday that the pandemic is changing my reactions to things. when I look at my social media statuses from a year ago and then recall what I was feeling at the time, I was fired up in a way that had me unwilling to disengage, but that's because I had activities I could do to blow off steam.

without those, and due to the constant mental overload I feel, I find myself retreating more, and it's not like me, but i get why it's happening.