Is it Better Not to Know?
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2021-08-27

I think one of the difficult thing with how the world exists right now is that we're asked to care about, like, everything. I cannot care about everything and I SHOULD NOT care about everything, because if I do care about everything, I will care incorrectly about a lot of things. Instead, get this, different people need to care about different things deeply, rather than a lot of people caring about things on only a surface level. 

Like, everyone caring a little bit about ocean plastic has caused the problem of people focusing on straws when we should be focusing international fishing regulations, decreasing international poverty, and supporting waste management infrastructure in other countries. 

Not saying any of this is easy...but I am saying DO NOT PUT MY SHOEBOX IN A COTTON BAG. 

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