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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
by 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 agoThe 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 agoPeddled. 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.