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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 10, 2014 1:19:28 GMT -5
I've subscribed to all the local news outlets and multiple national outlets. And then fact check groups like Snopes and Politifact. Even at that it seems like they all go with the same story at the same time. One nice thing about being, basically, a nihilist is that such niggling details aren't worth worrying about. It's a given that bad people will triumph & good ones will suffer; the rich will get richer & the poor poorer; corporations will say "jump" & their government lackeys will grovel & ask "how high?" Etc. In the meantime, all individuals can do is be as good to their fellows as they can. Doesn't matter what the price of tea in China is, or which evil (wannabe) head of an overseas government is out of fashion with the despicable parasites in power in the U.S., or how much some Wall Street scumlord is blatantly stealing, at the risk of a savage wrist-slap from his Washington enablers & co-conspirators, from pensions that retirees thought were theirs. In a just world, they'd all be lined up & shot (or at least spoken to very harshly). News flash: It's not a just world. In a just world, no one would have more (or less) than anyone else. News flash: See previous news flash. Rinse & repeat. The end. I agree with all of your sentiments, Dan, but I do find that studying world history helps to dull the pain of modern injustice...a bit. Sure, once you see the basic patterns, you start to fully understand that things are only marginally better (real slaves being replaced by wage slaves) but I try to keep in mind how unquestionably better we have it right now (middle-class and below) as opposed to any other era. As long as its possible to acquire more stuff than someone else by avarice, I don't see the human condition changing anytime soon. That said, socialism simply doesn't work in practice. In my opinion, the only real hope is technology. Of course we'll all be long dead before the matter-replicators start being issued... I've always been of the mind that I don't resent someone amassing wealth; I recent wealthy people who amass wealth with zero regard for their greater obligation to society. If you become a billionaire selling chemically addictive fast food to a relatively poor public, exasperating the modern health crisis in the process, you're basically an institutionalized criminal. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 1:26:58 GMT -5
I don't even resent that, until they start politically lobbying for tax cuts at the expense of the basic infrastructure our society needs to operate.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 10:07:18 GMT -5
I agree with all of your sentiments, Dan, but I do find that studying world history helps to dull the pain of modern injustice...a bit. Agreed. That's not the reason I'm pretty well-versed in history (though oriented far more toward post-Depression U.S., particularly the '60s, than a global perspective per se), or at least was at one time -- to the point of attending grad school at Arizona State on a fellowship way back when -- but it sure as heck doesn't hurt. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 10:09:49 GMT -5
I don't even resent that, until they start politically lobbying for tax cuts at the expense of the basic infrastructure our society needs to operate. These days, though, that seems to be sort of like saying "I don't even resent being caught in the rain without an umbrella except when I get drenched." Cynical? Moi? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 10, 2014 12:30:13 GMT -5
I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds."
I'd like to! I've just never come across it in any of the many reprint collections I've happened upon.
If my library system had the Showcase Presents: Flash volume (they have no vintage Flash at all), I'd be all over it. Is it reprinted in Greatest Flash Stories? Cause my library doesn't have that either.
But I can get Identity Crisis or One More Day whenever I want!
Want to hear something funny? I haven't read it, either! I've read all of the Flash's early Showcase adventures and the first issue; that's it as far as the Silver Age. I'm dead to myself until I read it. I'm a stern man at times. I'm reading it digitally right now! They have it at Comixology for $1.99! |
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 10, 2014 13:07:19 GMT -5
So I'm at my physical therapy this morning and the news says that the facility had an Ebola patient today. It's later disproven. That sure got people's attention fast.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 14:50:25 GMT -5
People are freaking out about this. Ridiculous. The news is being irresponsible with that.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 15:04:00 GMT -5
People are freaking out about this. Ridiculous. The news is being irresponsible with that. With that? With everything you mean? It's not news it's clickbait and ratings bait. Nothing else. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 16:19:34 GMT -5
With saying there's an ebola patient at the hospital hondobrode was at today when there wasn't. Stirring up panic over something that should not be panic. Was it click bait? I don't know. He said "news" so I assume it was the news.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 16:22:15 GMT -5
Clickbait=running online stuff, like hard-to-resist lists & trumped-up "news", to inflate readership totals.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2014 17:51:25 GMT -5
That's the point, news outlets don't care what they report as long as it gets people to tune in or click on their site. There is no longer responsibility in the news at all. During the heydey of TV news, networks carried the costs as part of their social responsibility, now news as to pay for itself in ratings and ad revenue so they will run stories to be first and to be alarmist to get people to tune in, and fact checking is just another cost line that was eliminated to increase the profitability of the product. If if gets you to click on their site or gets you to tune into their broadcast, it's fair game, accurate or not. Their responsibility is to their shareholders and corporate bottom line, not to truth, accuracy or informing the public.
-M
Not that there are not still journalists who care and try to do it the right way, but "the news" is no longer run by journalists but by businessmen.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 15, 2014 20:53:27 GMT -5
Well I'll be damned, a calm, collected and intelligent response to the paranoia of Ebola, from Fox news of all places. And that's not sarcasm, I have to say I was impressed with this, not matter the source.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2014 21:07:39 GMT -5
Sounds like that Dallas hospital had no clue how to protect it's nurses properly. Now one of the nurses that contracted ebola flew on an airplane and who knows who has it now. Those are the kind of mistakes that will keep this thing alive in the states.
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 16, 2014 3:01:48 GMT -5
So now news is going around that up to 80 people in Texas COULD be infected, as well as a possible infection in Hawaii. My question is, why hasn't the CDC/FAA grounded all non-essential flights to and from West Africa (or more specifically, Ebola Infected Regions)? Because the economical growth finally happening in Africa is potentially saving more lives than ebola is erasing and one does not want to stamp it out? |
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Post by Dizzy D on Oct 16, 2014 7:27:18 GMT -5
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