As I’ve resumed my news consumption upon my return to “normalcy” today, I realize I wasn’t missing anything while away. If you’ve followed any of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve employed a myriad of strategies for staying informed while minimizing the mere act of consumption for its own sake, and that each undertaking has failed in striking that delicate balance.

And yet it seems in these unprecedented times you can’t ignore what’s happening in the world. There’s a balance there I’m sure of it, but even the news outlets I like and respect won’t tell me to turn them off or put them down.

Information is powerful, and in our current global system, it is used to exploit the average person around the world, not to empower her or him. Somehow some way we must seek to remedy that, as it will unlock the real potential for us to change the world.