I took last week off to sit down and edit my latest demo video. You can take a look at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji0MXtrqh98 Send me some feed back so I know what needs to be fixed so I can finalize the edit and work on finishing it for posting on my website.
On to today’s post:
By now you should be well aware for my disdain for the “Mass Media”. They really are just a bunch of panic peddling weasels and will do anything to prey on your fear. I found this article talking about how we are all afraid of the same thing, yet there’s a whole lot more things we don’t think of that should scare us. Nationwide fear isn’t enough, this guy wants to localize it! The entire article is much too boring for me to punish you with here. But I’ll paste an excerpt From CNN:
We were talking about tumbleweeds because of a theory I had been pondering:
In this country, because of the immediacy of news, it seems as if everyone from one coast to the other is worrying obsessively about the same thing at the same time. You name it: the banking meltdown one day, the feared floods in Fargo, North Dakota, the next; the forced ouster of the head of General Motors one morning, followed soon after by the street demonstrations in London during the Group of 20 summit. We all tend to fret together about one crisis at a time; undoubtedly there will be something new for all of us to be nervous about together before sundown tonight.
So the goal here was to come up with something utterly unlikely — something that, in 2009, you wouldn’t think would bother people — and find out if it does.
Tumbleweeds. That, just picked at random, was the test case.
“They can be a pretty big problem out here,” said Scott McGuire, a code enforcement inspector in Greeley, Colorado. “When the wind is right, they’ll pile up right to the roofline of a house. Seriously — people can’t see out of their windows or even easily get out of their homes.”
There was something instructive, even (in an off-kilter way) comforting, about learning this: the affirmation that, in this increasingly monolithic country, there are still local vexations that override the breaking news bulletins on the national networks, that people in one pocket of America are routinely dealing with forces that people a few hundred miles away are blissfully unaware of.
Thanks for reminding us there are a few random things out there that are more ominous than we thought.
Jerk.
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that’s an excellent example — let’s get Nancy Grace on the case
Davis,
Don’t even get me started on the way she exploits the missing or murdered.
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