The day after the troubles in Dublin two weeks ago, I asked two different people I happened to talk to casually what they thought about what had happened and they had not even heard about them. “I don’t do social media, nor watch the news,” was what they both told me. The general sense I got from them was not that they did not care, but they were too preoccupied with the things that they have to do in their day-to-day lives that they did not really have the time nor the energy to think on such things, and it made me think, for the umpteenth time, about how I engage my own brain with the world.
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