Media Overload: Quality, Quantity, and Diversity

There is more media and entertainment in our world today than ever before.

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Even putting to one side the numerous web-pages and status updates that are published every single second, the rate at which new books, films, TV shows, songs, etc. are being created and published is immense.

Which means that, as an individual, you will never live to consume each and every piece of what there is on offer.

…Not even if you live to be 1000 years old.

(Not that, as the bookish folks we are, we don’t give it a good try, but still!)

Which means, in practical terms, this: you can’t watch, listen to, and read, everything.

So if you don’t wanna watch something then don’t. Simple.

…and complicated.

(Come on, it’s me. Everything is always simple and complicated 😅)

Because on one level it really is that simple.

But on another level? We have to be aware of why we wanna watch certain things over others.

While it’s ok to avoid things that you’ve…