I was thinking about this some more, after I sent my reply. I was thinking about the artificially generated compulsions so many of us experience across so many areas of our lives. For example: there is a very valid reason for many of us to feel we need to stay on top of the news. And yet…

…we can’t ever consume all of it, and we don’t need to do so in order to be truly well-informed. With the advent of the Internet, everything has tilted toward content generators harnessing this compulsive tendency. For me, what it takes is reminding myself: “You don’t need to get it from this…

…source; if it’s valid and important, you can find the information you need, from a source which doesn’t use such ethically problematic shortcuts and/or hooks. If it’s not worth seeking from a more trustworthy source, it can’t be that important.”