ARMAGEDDON?
Simply Said: No, it is not Armageddon! At least not yet.Please use my perspective here to understand today better. I know it is hard to believe, folks, but it has only been some 60 years that we could even get this knowledge that upset us. I'm not going before my time on earth because I've already covered that of the 1900's in a previous post recently. This is MY LIFESPAN time. The first black and white televisions(we had first one on our block) had THREE daily stations...NEWS REPORTS weren't even that popular...Ed Sullivan beat that out every time! At about 12:00 Midnight, you heard the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" and then a "test pattern"( star-like) came on for the rest of the night. Unless you wanted to stare at that all night...you turned the set off and went to bed...or read the newspaper or a book! As a self-absorbed "teenager" I wasn't even really aware that just 90 miles south of me were missiles & The Bay of Pigs Event. Oh, yes, we practiced going under our WOODEN DESKS to avoid Ground Zero!!
Television did not resume again until sometime the next morning. O.k.,now; look at today!
TODAY: Television has some 200+ channels 24 hours a day. This is actually called the "Informational Generation" because we can find bad news 24 hrs.a day on news stations that fight for being FIRST to report...called "BREAKING NEWS!" HUGE competition to be FIRST so resulting in a HUGE problem with in-accuracies! Extremely good looking newscasters let you know almost simultaneously as something is happening!
When NEWS wasn't as "popular" we had older and more credible newscasters. When Walter Cronkite reported it
credibly; we believed. Slowly they were replaced by more "glamorous" people and cool technical effects. In order to "FILL" this 24 hr. span of time the news became highly repetitive; facts changed hourly as "updates". Newspapers lost business because it was too slow! You could get news now by: IPHONE, IPAD, COMPUTER,TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, tablets etc.etc.
Obviously, the good part of this is quick action, evidence retention and awareness for safety.
Bad side: You can get "sensory overload," a Psych.term meaning too MUCH information to process properly and a side effect of cynicism, conspiracies, depression,
distorted reality and feelings of doom..."we are going to HELL in a hand basket!"
If you feel you are becoming "obsessed" with information it is important for you to take a "recess"!! Today, it is very easy to fall into paranoia, fear and despondency.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" Churchill
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing!" Ronald D.Laing
Simply Said
Mrs.B.
Television did not resume again until sometime the next morning. O.k.,now; look at today!
TODAY: Television has some 200+ channels 24 hours a day. This is actually called the "Informational Generation" because we can find bad news 24 hrs.a day on news stations that fight for being FIRST to report...called "BREAKING NEWS!" HUGE competition to be FIRST so resulting in a HUGE problem with in-accuracies! Extremely good looking newscasters let you know almost simultaneously as something is happening!
When NEWS wasn't as "popular" we had older and more credible newscasters. When Walter Cronkite reported it
credibly; we believed. Slowly they were replaced by more "glamorous" people and cool technical effects. In order to "FILL" this 24 hr. span of time the news became highly repetitive; facts changed hourly as "updates". Newspapers lost business because it was too slow! You could get news now by: IPHONE, IPAD, COMPUTER,TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, tablets etc.etc.
Obviously, the good part of this is quick action, evidence retention and awareness for safety.
Bad side: You can get "sensory overload," a Psych.term meaning too MUCH information to process properly and a side effect of cynicism, conspiracies, depression,
distorted reality and feelings of doom..."we are going to HELL in a hand basket!"
If you feel you are becoming "obsessed" with information it is important for you to take a "recess"!! Today, it is very easy to fall into paranoia, fear and despondency.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!" Churchill
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing!" Ronald D.Laing
Simply Said
Mrs.B.
