Isabel en terapia

A person who declares they have decided to "quit" the addiction to information, as if it were a drug, reminds me that such an individual, seeking to be clean, still nourishes themselves with substitutes that provide reality through headlines written by people in their circle, without the effort of reading what is uncomfortable or what induces the cultivation of their own opinions.

This desire to avoid knowing, which I hear more and more frequently, I respond by saying I cannot afford such luxury, although I lie: I prefer to open my eyes rather than close them. I console myself with the thought that if there is anything redeemable in this unrelenting modern age, it is that it does not give you time to get bored.

I try to break free from my ideological bubble because I believe it is necessary to be aware of the arguments that nourish those I oppose. Sometimes, I say, I find reflections of interest, and in this quest to be a justice seeker, I tell myself, look at this idiotic nonsense they think, but how well expressed it is. To me, an educated person in these times of ordinariness can seduce me. I continue reading.