Deep Calls To Deep: The Day I Turned Off the News

I quit watching the news fifteen years ago.

I do not remember what exactly caused me to turn it off, but as I sit here now and reflect, we were about five years past 9/11. Whatever sense of humanity and community we had discovered amongst ourselves on 9/12, it had slowly devolved into partisan politics, ideological division, and the dehumanizing of the “other.” And while we were those ultimately accountable for what we were becoming, I noticed how the news media curated content to keep us ang...