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maycon.a.i. That's m-a-i-c-on.a-i. It should go without saying, though, of course,

for the sake of word count and runtime, I'm going to say it anyway very slowly. A stoic needs to maintain awareness of the

things going on in the world in order to be in service to it. But how much awareness do they need to

maintain exactly? Is the answer 15 minutes a day or 40 hours a week? Is it necessary for the progressing student of stoicism to keep

an eye of sauron level of watchfulness over current events in order to be paying enough attention

to the cosmopolis? Or can they be a bit more lax than that? Welcome back, Procopton. This week,

we're going to be talking about just this.

How much time should we spend consuming news media? This topic was suggested by my wife, who,

I'm almost certain, thinks I consume far too much news than is good for me. We're going to go deep

and nuanced in the answer here, as is my want.

You know that by now.

And I hope you'll take something away from it that helps you to adjust your news media diet to a level more appropriate than it is currently set to.

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