Remember when the news was delivered straight to your door? 

Your daily informational pamphlet came couriered to your front porch, carried dutifully in the bicycle basket of the boy who lives down the street. Dad read the newspaper at breakfast, Mom flipped through a magazine with coffee circles on the cover, and your siblings fought over the Sunday cartoons nestled in the back. By the time breakfast was finished, everyone could go about their day more informed than when they woke up, happily moving on with their lives and leaving their papertrail on the kitchen counter. The morning worldly news update is still just as essential but is no longer as simple as a finite, printed text. 

Instead we’re inundated with near-constant information–vetted or otherwise–thanks to the globalization and simplification of the Internet. Except, it’s far from simple; it’s positively overwhelming. 

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Alas, it’s still every adult’s obligation to stay plugged into the happenings of the world and, despite the struggle to keep their heads afloat in a media overflow, it’s morally imperative to stay informed, yet somehow still sane.