To me, it's not that you need to be uninformed, but that you need to stay out of the firehose stream. In my decades on this earth, I can't remember a single election or major supreme court decision that wasn't considered "the most important X ever in your life" that was surely going to "change everything". But they can't all be. Everything can't be a crisis all the time, even when those things are really important. But when you sit in the firehose, being blasted by constant propaganda, opinion pieces and "expert analysis", it's easy to lose sight of the fact that these things matter, but only to the extent they actually change things on the ground level. Like the day trader that sits with their stream of stocks and freaks out over the signs of the impending collapse of the world waffle iron trade. It might well be important, and it will have many knock on effects, but a lot of that importance is focused and magnified by their position in the middle of this trading market, and the whole world and market is more than just waffle irons.