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If it makes you feel better informed, great. Have you done anything about it?
If this is reality then emergency work or even living through disasters must be a snap.
It holds some illusion of being real, something to make us feel as privileged participants while going about our day-to-day struggles. As such it's an easy sell to an armchair society of distraction addicts.
Reality? Not even close. No, it's media sensationalism. Find reality on the ground in southern Louisiana. Or just get outside and avoid these shallow electronic spheres of existence for a few hours. Do something useful.
/BS-detector
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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