The challenge for many of us is to filter out the distractions and not get sucked into the noise. The noise is designed to keep you from focusing on what matters most. Celebrity news, and race bait content appear relevant but are they necessary? How many deep books did you read this week, how many articles? Now review your week and ask what called you away from doing so? Was it the race industrial complex talking about ‘The black man”? Because I have had to train myself to instantly reject that race bait nonsense. And you know something is slop when it is easy and simplistic. Always ask, what comes from knowing this? And at the expense of what else?