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Do what I do: wait until the dust settles before caring. Reading about the Iraq War in 2003 is a completely different experience than reading about it now. It doesn't matter what your news sources were.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
—From Walden, Henry David Thoreau
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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