Get your news secondhand,
from someone who is not a news writer.
The goal of the news writer
is to make you indignant,
is to make you indignant,
alarm you, frighten you.
Anger and fear
are poisonous to optimism.
And then we have
the political talk show hosts
the political talk show hosts
running in circles shouting,
“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”
Do you really want to live angry,
suspicious and frightened?
Our nation is addicted to news and sports
because we would rather be angry than bored.
So don’t be bored.
Pick something worth doing, then do it.
Talk about it wherever you go.
Make your own news.