"Ignore the News!" with Oliver Burkeman
July 18, 2020
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"Ignore the News!" with Oliver Burkeman
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<div>Would we all be better off if we knew less about the world? If we took less, not more, responsibility for fixing distant problems? If we focused a bit more on our own practical concerns? It's an uncomfortable idea, but one that the Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman called for in his seminal article "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/03/how-the-news-took-over-reality" target="_blank">How the news took over reality</a>". Oliver's book is "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". He joins Josh, mid-pandemic, from New York.</div><br /><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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