I’m sick of the “news.” For one, there isn’t a whole lot of newness about it. In many ways it is old, tired, and deeply disenchanting. It isn’t that the “news” is mostly bad “news,” it’s that the “news” is constant, loud, and sensationalistic. In the midst of it all, I feel informed at best. But the information it occasionally feeds me is rarely fodder for knowledge and much less for wisdom. I see suffering objectified and hear commentary that miseducates people (like me) to believe all kinds of oversimplifications and platitudes. I even suspect that the reason we often lack substance in the blogosphere is because we—myself, first and foremost—cannot help but try to be something like the “news.” Sure, there are better and worse “news” outlets and we shouldn’t opt to live under a rock, but, in the end, the effect is the same for me today: nausea. How about you?
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