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What does it change? It makes you angry. It makes you depressed. It makes you scared. What watching the news these days does to you is indisputable. It disrupts your focus. It disturbs your sanity. It changes your mood.

But what does it change in the real world? Well, that's much less clear, isn't it?

So why are you subjecting yourself to it? Why do you continue to assume that your duty as a citizen is to watch and read about horrible stuff constantly.

Seneca lived during the time of Nero.

Epictetus lived in the time of Domitian.

Cato's lifetime saw the fall of the Republic.

Marcus Aurelius saw the beginning of the decline of the empire.

They experienced famines and floods and wars and corruption and incompetence. The Stoics were

not unfamiliar with the feelings, the dread, the disappointment, the bewildering, and the outrage

that we are feeling today. But you know what they also understood? They understood what was in

their control and what wasn't, and what made a difference and what didn't.

Do you think a Stoic and ancient Rome needed daily updates to know that Nero was deranged,

or that what Caesar was doing was illegal and inexcusable?

Part of being a thinking and a decent person is being able to discern what's going on,

but part of being a discerning person is also knowing when you know enough, when more information is no longer

helpful or even informative. You need to know that you probably already know enough. You need to

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