nothing would happen that would concern you outside of the small circle of people you associate with. no wars, no killings, no robberies. just vibing.
this take is a product of capitalist realism
it becomes easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, or in other words, it becomes too hard to imagine how anything could exist without capitalism, in this case the news
Just traveling minstrels bringing stories and music from distant lands.
I half agree with you OP. The modern 24/7 media that we have is unusual and theoretically, our brains are not meant to know about events that happen 1,000 miles away from us, and genuinely be stressed or angry about them. It is legitimately bad for your mental health to consume too much information. However, things are always going to happen, like the other commenter said, and people are always going to want to know about these things.
