By all means, be informed. Pay attention to great global matters of historical significance, and don’t stick your head in the sand. But don’t let some vague sense of duty to more important things distract you from the present; and don’t, for goodness’ sake, believe the line that tells you that the more close and familiar something is, the less it signifies. Just the opposite is true.
Read the rest of my latest for The Catholic Weekly.
Image: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (Wikimedia Commons)
Another essay I expect to see in your “Best of Simcha Fisher” anthology someday.
I do not listen to the news anymore.