BIAD,
Thanks for the very insightful reply!! BTW...your answer is the correct one, and I'm glad you were able to see this! There's at least a few people 'out there' who don't fall for the media hype.
As you note, it's not that the conflict going on with Israel and (well, about everyone) isn't important, it's that what the world is being presented as "news", or what's "important", by the MSM and social media is both filled with propaganda and much of it is not even real. It pains me to see just how shallow people's understanding is today of the world around them. What's on the headline of the news cycle this morning is completely different from yesterday. And, the reason for that is, as you also point out, the never ending quest for ratings. Ratings, wether it's likes, clicks or whatever, equals money. So, what's really important isn't Taylor Swift or Blake Lively, or Israel and Iran...it's whatever it takes (and I literally mean anything at all) to get the most clicks, likes, views or whatever metric is being measured. Absolutely what ever it takes, bar nothing.
Don Henley of the Eagles should receive a Nobel Prize in Philosophy for the 1983 classic, "Dirty Laundry". The lyrics to this song really said it all better than anyone else ever said it in five minutes and thirty eight seconds.
Thanks for the very insightful reply!! BTW...your answer is the correct one, and I'm glad you were able to see this! There's at least a few people 'out there' who don't fall for the media hype.
As you note, it's not that the conflict going on with Israel and (well, about everyone) isn't important, it's that what the world is being presented as "news", or what's "important", by the MSM and social media is both filled with propaganda and much of it is not even real. It pains me to see just how shallow people's understanding is today of the world around them. What's on the headline of the news cycle this morning is completely different from yesterday. And, the reason for that is, as you also point out, the never ending quest for ratings. Ratings, wether it's likes, clicks or whatever, equals money. So, what's really important isn't Taylor Swift or Blake Lively, or Israel and Iran...it's whatever it takes (and I literally mean anything at all) to get the most clicks, likes, views or whatever metric is being measured. Absolutely what ever it takes, bar nothing.
Don Henley of the Eagles should receive a Nobel Prize in Philosophy for the 1983 classic, "Dirty Laundry". The lyrics to this song really said it all better than anyone else ever said it in five minutes and thirty eight seconds.