03-16-2003, 08:36 AM
Hail Jordan,
What can I say? Don't read news papers, watch news broadcasts, and ignore the radio once an hour. If you do so, you never again have to put up with it. I started doing that years ago, and have not looked back. If there's anything worth actually knowing going on in the world, someone'll bring it up in conversation; if not, then it's news as normal (ie Israel and Palestine are blowing up someone, the US are giving some country a dirty look/invading, stocks went up or down, a dog got stuck up a tree, blah, blah, blah). Really, has there been any NEW news in the past century or ten? Sure, there's a few inventions, but nothing I cannot read on /. (or couldn't have back then if all the prerequisites for /. were in existance at the time). As a species, we are as stupid as we were ten thousand years ago: perhaps more so, as we believe otherwise.
What can I say? Don't read news papers, watch news broadcasts, and ignore the radio once an hour. If you do so, you never again have to put up with it. I started doing that years ago, and have not looked back. If there's anything worth actually knowing going on in the world, someone'll bring it up in conversation; if not, then it's news as normal (ie Israel and Palestine are blowing up someone, the US are giving some country a dirty look/invading, stocks went up or down, a dog got stuck up a tree, blah, blah, blah). Really, has there been any NEW news in the past century or ten? Sure, there's a few inventions, but nothing I cannot read on /. (or couldn't have back then if all the prerequisites for /. were in existance at the time). As a species, we are as stupid as we were ten thousand years ago: perhaps more so, as we believe otherwise.
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.