I've only read newspaper stories about the bombings, because it's just too much to be asked to listen to the talking heads drone on and on in endless horror and analysis far past our point to process it anymore. I used to keep Headline News on the television in the office lobby, but one day, tossed back and forth between reports of a beheading of a contractor in Iraq and the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, I turned it off and it's never been back on that station.
No generation before this has been asked to take in so much information, so much horror, so much tragedy, in such endless form on a daily basis through the mass media. You put it well when you say that we "want a better world but feel powerless to effect it in any way," and I have to wonder how much of that powerlessness comes from simply being overwhelmed by the world at large, now brought into our cars, our offices, our living rooms, our coffee shops -- try to think of someplace that doesn't have a television droning.
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No generation before this has been asked to take in so much information, so much horror, so much tragedy, in such endless form on a daily basis through the mass media. You put it well when you say that we "want a better world but feel powerless to effect it in any way," and I have to wonder how much of that powerlessness comes from simply being overwhelmed by the world at large, now brought into our cars, our offices, our living rooms, our coffee shops -- try to think of someplace that doesn't have a television droning.
Maybe it's time to change the channel.
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