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Time scales will make you realize how most of current news are really allergic reactions. Every week there's a new hot topic, lots of questions asked, lots of
by agumonkey 3y ago
Time scales will make you realize how most of current news are really allergic reactions.
Every week there's a new hot topic, lots of questions asked, lots of worries.. and then lots of nothing.
- greece dying
- srilanka dying
- venezuela collapsing
- argentina wiped
- lebanon
- syria
.. it goes on and on
you listen to it, think a lot, and a month later you forgot, busy thinking about the new alert. A year down the road you read about whatever country and realize all that was just noise.
- mint2 3y agoAll those places seem far off and distant to a lot of people… just “noise”. In all of those cases those things dismissed as noise were the sounds of millions of peoples lives being torn apart. But yes far away and distant - oh unless one’s relatives were fleeing their soon to be bombed homes like my Syrian American coworker. To be able to ignore those events is only for the lucky - but can (for now) doesn’t mean should. Even the lucky should not ignore them. Also I say “for now”, because in most cases the far off events quickly influence local events - many of those are directly effecting American border communities, and also national politics through a nationalistic platform by a party.
- agumonkey 3y agogreece is not far from me, it's not necessarily distance, to me it's just news medias that are just shallow amplifiers (sensationalism)
- cwkoss 3y agoI feel like almost every international news story can probably be traced back to some corporate interest: somebody is profiting based on the public being aware of/believing that news story.