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Here are 2 statements. See how they sit with you. Reality, beyond the local, unless you travel a lot, only exists as a media fiction. The bigger reality, the

Here are 2 statements. See how they sit with you. Reality, beyond the local, unless you travel a lot, only exists as a media fiction. The bigger reality, the world beyond the local, is more important than the local. Because the bigger reality is bigger.

sph 4y ago
The biggest lie media has sold us is that the "bigger reality" is more important. This is going to be extremely controversial to people that live on the internet like you and I, but what is actually important to you is what's in a one mile range from your current location, your family and your house. It's culturally accepted that being "cultured" to be interested in what's happening in the other side of the world, but it is not important as in vital for your well being and immediate survival. So, no. The local is what is more important, the rest is what makes us buy newspapers, TVs and radios. News is an product.
- bombcar 4y ago
  I would not be surprised at all of the average American doesn't know the names of their neighbors, but can rattle off large numbers of "world figures" who basically have zero impact on them, and they certainly have zero impact on.
  - meltyness 4y ago
    Unfortunately, this IS some people's jobs, certainly the San Francisco Fed president reports on financial conditions conditions across the west, including LA, and Portland... how do those places look?
  - sph 4y ago
    I am not American, and I do not know my neighbour's name. I think it's terrible and sadly I'm not the only one living like that.
- jhbadger 4y ago
  The problem is that your little local world is part of the bigger world and that world can affect you and your local world far more than you can affect it. Its like the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. They'd like to stay in their cozy world of the Shire and ignore the rest of the world, but the rest of the world won't ignore the Shire.
  - asdff 4y ago
    The key is to just focus on what is going to actually relevant to you. You should always ask yourself, how does this piece of information affect me? Most of the time though the news being peddalled by major media and other sources with a lot of views has no effect on my life. Go ahead and skim a major national news site and try to find something that will be relevant to you. It's hard. I couldn't do it when I tested with the cnn homepage just now, or some of the larger reddit news subreddits' first 25 posts. At that point all that information is trivia, but its held to such importance that you'd think you were doing an injustice not keeping up with it.
    - CRConrad 4y ago
      Peddled. Peddling is selling, with connotations of small-scale, bargaining / dickering / haggling, and often ambulatory; latterly with additional abstract connotations of spreading (for free, so without the haggling) more or less suspicious theories and opinions. Pedalling is propelling a bicycle.

sph 4y ago

The biggest lie media has sold us is that the "bigger reality" is more important. This is going to be extremely controversial to people that live on the internet like you and I, but what is actually important to you is what's in a one mile range from your current location, your family and your house. It's culturally accepted that being "cultured" to be interested in what's happening in the other side of the world, but it is not important as in vital for your well being and immediate survival. So, no. The local is what is more important, the rest is what makes us buy newspapers, TVs and radios. News is an product.

bombcar 4y ago
I would not be surprised at all of the average American doesn't know the names of their neighbors, but can rattle off large numbers of "world figures" who basically have zero impact on them, and they certainly have zero impact on.
- meltyness 4y ago
  Unfortunately, this IS some people's jobs, certainly the San Francisco Fed president reports on financial conditions conditions across the west, including LA, and Portland... how do those places look?
- sph 4y ago
  I am not American, and I do not know my neighbour's name. I think it's terrible and sadly I'm not the only one living like that.
jhbadger 4y ago
The problem is that your little local world is part of the bigger world and that world can affect you and your local world far more than you can affect it. Its like the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. They'd like to stay in their cozy world of the Shire and ignore the rest of the world, but the rest of the world won't ignore the Shire.
- asdff 4y ago
  The key is to just focus on what is going to actually relevant to you. You should always ask yourself, how does this piece of information affect me? Most of the time though the news being peddalled by major media and other sources with a lot of views has no effect on my life. Go ahead and skim a major national news site and try to find something that will be relevant to you. It's hard. I couldn't do it when I tested with the cnn homepage just now, or some of the larger reddit news subreddits' first 25 posts. At that point all that information is trivia, but its held to such importance that you'd think you were doing an injustice not keeping up with it.
  - CRConrad 4y ago
    Peddled. Peddling is selling, with connotations of small-scale, bargaining / dickering / haggling, and often ambulatory; latterly with additional abstract connotations of spreading (for free, so without the haggling) more or less suspicious theories and opinions. Pedalling is propelling a bicycle.