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The world is evil
I was looking at the world news and found out something. It's all bad; all of it; this is my world news list. The entire world is going fucking insane. It's like evil surrounds us. Even the movies are scarier. I might just have to build a secret bunker somewhere while the world implodes.
Some serious porn news.
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| World News Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets AP Bomb blast kills lawmaker in Lebanon AP Hamas seizing control of Gaza Strip AP Strong quake shakes Guatemala AP WHO: Environment woes killing millions AP Most Viewed - World Prince Harry will 'never stop wondering' about Diana's death AFP Hamas seizing control of Gaza Strip AP Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets AP South Africa shutdown as strike intensifies AFP Strong earthquake rocks Guatemala AP World Video Indian tech city struggles CNN - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago Letter touts location of British girl's body AP - Wed Jun 13, 6:12 PM ET Hamas presses Gaza battle with Fatah CBC.ca - Wed Jun 13, 5:06 PM ET Anti-Syrian politician killed in Beirut blast CBC.ca - Wed Jun 13, 5:06 PM ET |
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| Originally posted by Krypton I was looking at the world news and found out something. It's all bad; all of it; this is my world news list. The entire world is going fucking insane. It's like evil surrounds us. Even the movies are scarier. I might just have to build a secret bunker somewhere while the world implodes. Some serious porn news.
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a little late no ?
Society feeds on negative news like that, so the media delivers. There's far more positive news to be read, but it's not being displayed up front.
Do not debase evil's name by mistaking it with hysterical stupidity summed up from ignorant 3rd party perspectives with the sole purpose of inciting sensationalism and fearful appeal.
Yes but paris hilton is in jail so everything balances out.
...and Anna Nicole is still dead!
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| Originally posted by occrider Yes but paris hilton in jail so everything balances out. |
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| Originally posted by mezzir scariest part about those shenanigans? know this picture? k now how bout this one? the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. where's that god damn mikeymike smiley when you need it |
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| Originally posted by mezzir the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. |
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| Originally posted by Krypton I was looking at the world news and found out something. It's all bad; all of it; this is my world news list. The entire world is going fucking insane. It's like evil surrounds us. Even the movies are scarier. I might just have to build a secret bunker somewhere while the world implodes. Some serious porn news. |
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"Mean World" Syndrome The "Mean World" Syndrome is one of the main effects of the Cultivation Theory. This occurs when heavy viewers see the world as a much nastier place than do light viewers. This, theorists attribute to the fact that television depicts the world as a mean and violent place and therefore, heavy viewers are overly frightened and too cautious of the real world (Phillips). Gerbner believes this may have something to do with America's policy on capital punishment (Stossel). |
The world is an evil place is no news it's self.
Why report good news, pfftt.
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| Originally posted by mezzir scariest part about those shenanigans? know this picture? k now how bout this one? the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. where's that god damn mikeymike smiley when you need it |
THIS is the reason why I choose not to watch/read/listen to the news or television. It is over-sensationalized negative garbage that I don't want to saturate my mind with.
Not to mention, my knowing most of it really doesn't make any difference, other than making me feel shittier about things/people.
I say we turn this into another thread where we all chastise Theresa for being intentionally ignorant to the social and political plight of complete strangers in distant lands that many people seem to pride themselves on possessing knowledge of.
well, holding on to the religious notion of good and evil certainly isn't helping things...
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| Originally posted by Theresa THIS is the reason why I choose not to watch/read/listen to the news or television. It is over-sensationalized negative garbage that I don't want to saturate my mind with. Not to mention, my knowing most of it really doesn't make any difference, other than making me feel shittier about things/people. |
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| Originally posted by mezzir scariest part about those shenanigans? know this picture? k now how bout this one? the bottom one was taken 35 years after the first one, to the day. by the same photographer. where's that god damn mikeymike smiley when you need it |
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| Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I say we turn this into another thread where we all chastise Theresa for being intentionally ignorant to the social and political plight of complete strangers in distant lands that many people seem to pride themselves on possessing knowledge of. |
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| Originally posted by mezzir hah you stay out of this, we've been over this with you before |
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| Originally posted by LeopoldStotch just in case someone needed a media source link to check for the validity of this post, here's the story -> here wow. something very hard to comprehend. edit - oh btw. i don't read the ny daily news. |
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| Originally posted by mezzir thanks i remembered reading it on a credible site but didn't feel like tracking down a link |
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| Originally posted by LeopoldStotch just in case someone needed a media source link to check for the validity of this post, here's the story -> here |
On one hand the media is out to make the world seem as bad as possible but look at the number of stories about human rights violations and the like that they have to choose from. Of course these stories are exaggerated and played again and again but the point is that there are these horrible stories to begin with that would make one feel that this world is a cruel and terrible place.
You can tell me story after story about human kindness and charity but for me to even hear about one story of a mass killing just saddens my view of the human race, just the idea that we're even capable of some of the things we do. Confrontations are going to happen and people are going to get killed, its human nature and we are animals really after all...but the mass killings (ex. sept 11th) go far beyond that. Our aggressiveness and ignorance plus our intelligence allow for such things to occur and it sickens me.
There is indeed good in a lot of humans, something that is rarely depicted on the news. My only hope is that someday humans will learn to embrace it more and decide to make it the night's top story. The more horrible stories are depicted, the more violence and ignorance is to occur. What makes me upset is the ratings of these news shows, its really as if people really want to see these stories, like it makes them feel better.
On the other hand...
what if the news reported only positive, heart-warming humanistic stories of charity and kindness in the community and failed to ever report anything that would lead people to generate pessimistic views regarding the human race? Wouldn't you feel completely lied to? Wouldn't you feel as though the media was just a cover for tricking people into looking the other way while the reality of the world escaped the consideration of those who could do something about it?
Maybe it's human nature to shit in your own back yard - to cheat and kill the meek, to pollute our environment so you can save money, to hold the rich above the poor because of what you could possibly gain - maybe all of this is in every human out there, due to our very nature and position. But maybe that's just a portion of it. Maybe there's a lot of magnanimity out there, too. Maybe there's subtle, unspoken selflessness of random passersby. But maybe we've not reached all of it even yet. Maybe deeper in there somewhere, there is a fascination and a fixation upon those things which threaten our livelihood. And maybe this is why people behold a horrible car wreck in lurid fascination. And maybe this is why we enjoy horror movies and roller coasters and tales of war that take us to the edge of our seat. Maybe in our every wonder, we are beholding death, the threat to both the positivity and the negativity of our existence. Maybe we dance with death because it makes us feel alive and it makes us feel safe. Is the world really going to shit when the blight of the human condition has unfolded to be the reverence of its condition as home entertainment?
Maybe the world really is going to shit, maybe it's just the same old shit as before, we just get to hear about it more. In any case, I think the thing to worry about most is peoples' concern with things that they could not possibly understand and their subsequent passion in defending their ignorance as though it threatens, not their lives, but the preservation of the pixelated prescription being stream-fed to them through the little black box in their living room.
Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Righteously, fools blind themselves.
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