Mood ruined while reading the comments.

It is rarely a good idea to read the comments section – except maybe when doing so on a blog site where people generally are better at remembering their shared humanity. Or maybe it’s just that on a blog site there is often a social consequence for forgetting.

I do not think most human beings are equipped / designed to know too much about what is going on in the world. It’s too big. It almost doesn’t really matter what the topic is, either (world news, pop culture, sports, etc.) At a certain point, I think being too immersed in the bigness of a thing can make someone a little bit mindless and unrelatable to others, if not crazy in truth.

Most of us are equipped to tend our own proverbial gardens, though.

I am reminded of an episode of Community. Pierce (Chevy Chase) has been using “earnoculars” to spy on people throughout the episode, but ultimately learns a valuable lesson about being too informed.