I'm with you, it's a mantra that takes effort to maintain, I'm easily sucked into a 'serious news' narrative, then mine for background information obsessively so as to form an 'informed opinion', then what, it's formed but neutered, extending my understanding of a topic does nothing to change the situation... my existential inclinations are not well serviced by what I see as a self-indulgent and negative voyeurism, a better reaction, to double down on local, small scale, personal improvements.