Some things you just feel better not knowing.
A lesson which may have gone forever unlearned for me were it not for the advent of social media. It collided 20 years ago with an unrelenting curiosity I developed as a child and got the dopamine flowing in a way which made it indispensable to my daily routine.
Then about a decade ago, too much of that dopamine flipped to cortisol. So many horrible people, horrible developments, horrible events - all elements which our social media-deprived hunter-gatherer ancestors dealt with as well, but now spewing directly toward me from all over the globe onto the information theater's main stage.