Washing away the sediment.

Its always an interesting point of view, whether the world around us is of more value than the one within, so to speak. 
We observe a sometimes ridiculous set of events and are often frustrated by the actions and the rulings that the people in power make. We lose our belief in the honesty of people and institutions they represent, institutions that were considered the pillars on which society at large was built. Parliament, the Media at large, the Legal profession including Judges,  have all lost the confidence of the public at large. 
So why, if we have no confidence do we engage with them in terms of considering the information they pass on to us in the public domain. Why don't we blank them out of our consciousness, turn off the news program, stop listening to the current affairs programs stop reading the news papers and so on. If the information we receive is corrupted why corrupt ourselves with this information ? If we followed this method of isolating ourselves, what would be gained and would it be beneficial to us as human beings.

.Our world is made up of the immediate events which happen to us in the course of our day. Relationships and interactions our the grist of our life and the external worldly events are on the periphery, having little or no impact on our daily lives. All this is true but in many cases it would be a bleak life if our only interest was in matters that only effect us.
As human beings, since the invention of the written word and more importantly the printed word, man has come on in leaps and bounds as this "other world" has made him/her aware of what happens outside the box.
One way way of handling the "potential" for the mental corruption that can flow through our ears and into our brain through our eyes, is to recognise this noise is unhealthy and, through meditation, we can turn inwards and recognise the potential of the self. Your world then becomes a system of analysis and contemplation as one seeks clearer identification with a set of "ideals" that take into consideration mankind at large, of which we are a part.

Buddhism is a philosophy that persuades people to contemplate a life which takes in the meditative practice to skill ones self in moving away from the busy, noisy, humdrum life we all lead to find sanctuary in a set of values which we appropriate from the humanistic values that the Buddha set down centuries ago. 

Of course, like a lifestyle balance one has to recognise that we are "not" isolated and seeking isolation has its dangers. 
Measuring those dangers and understanding that for fulfilment, we must expose ourselves to things, the excitement of danger on a rock climb or a gallop over the fields on a horse, the exposure to low level microbes in the farm yard which builds up our immune system and so on, that we also gain by listening to a debate or reading a book.
Cleansing the mind of its clutter has the drawback that we loose part of our former self and are in danger of washing away the sediment that makes up the character.