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Selective Ignorance is Required in Today’s World

3 min readJun 12, 2025

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photo credit: Kevin Carter, The Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who killed himself the month after he won said prize for this picture

Being over informed is it’s own storm

I can’t even. Listen,now I finally get it, in terms of where that phrase originated and why. That phrase screams of American doll pasty white power puff girl privilege. However, it’s not exclusively trademarked by the above ‘made up to make some people who don’t get the joke mad’ pronoun. The word selective applies. However, so does ignorance. I’m not kidding, despite the fact a lot of truth is said in jest.

Pronouns, what a great place to actually begin. I don’t know where the words I just wrote above this paragraph came from or what they even are.

I don’t understand what’s even happening in the world, most of the time. Which is troubling, considering my IQ is profoundly higher than a certain selection of my writing suggests. WebMD hired me,bro. They also eventually either googled me, looked up my name on PAdocket, ran my credit or just talked to my ex girlfriends and moved in a different direction.

Anyway, I don’t know who the bad guy is, in most current world event, war like sagas.

I mean, besides obviously China and Russia. Those are obvious real life comic book villains, along with Kim Jong Un and the boys. Speaking of, I haven’t heard much about North Korea in awhile. They’ve been…

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Brian Brewington
Brian Brewington

Written by Brian Brewington

Writing About the Human Condition, via My Thoughts, Observations, Experiences, and Opinions — Founder of Journal of Journeys and BRB INC ©

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