#Statement: My mom always says that I am the most informed person she has ever met and that I always seem to know everything about every current event. I don’t want to disappoint her, but I don’t know anything about current events. I might know information, but it isn’t my information. It’s social media. I haven’t actually learned new information, but rather, I have learned how to learn information. It’s an easy skill to acquire information about everything when I, and everyone else, have access to it, unfettered at all times. And the thing about it is that it never ends; there is always more information. And as much as I try not to indulge, driving up both my content intake and screen time helps me maintain my sanity. There is no bigger example of this, for me, than last June, during the New York City mayoral primary race. After a few depressing months of President Donald Trump’s second administration, I had long been looking to Zohran Mamdani as a beacon of hope. I had needed him t...