I tend to stay out of the loop, culturally, so generally know nothing of current events – the so-called 'news.' Information is always edited, censored, incomplete, if not downright false. Now this is true of any mechanism of information production – there is inevitable selection bias – and it is most evidently true for the process of perception: what I perceive of reality I have already edited and censored myself. This is effectively the ego, and anyone who doubts that the ego is the most draconian and prudish of censors should try hallucinogenic drugs.