A period of “debilitating postpartum anxiety” led Abigail Favale to drop out of social media and stop watching the news.<\/p>\n
I steered clear of Facebook, which is its own strange minefield, photos of chubby babies and too-flattering selfies alongside headlines of horror \u2013 headlines of articles that few actually read, but we share them anyway, to at least feel like we\u2019ve done something; we\u2019ve shown that we\u2019re woke, we\u2019re aware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now she asks a particularly Lenten question<\/a>. “Is the voracious consumption of information a virtue? Is seeking not to know a vice?”<\/p>\n
This question has increasing importance. Most of us already suffer from an info glut and many people view this as normal life. But I won’t be surprised when news comes of the next generation rejecting all of this and seeking what some may call a new puritanism of personal responsibility and local (mostly offline) living. I’m pretty sure it’s happening already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A period of “debilitating postpartum anxiety” led Abigail Favale to drop out of social media and stop watching the news. I steered clear of Facebook, which is its own strange minefield, photos of chubby babies and too-flattering selfies alongside headlines of horror \u2013 headlines of articles that few actually read, but we share them anyway, … Continue reading Does Voracious Consumption of News Consume Us the Most?<\/span>