Disconnected from the Feed

For the past week I have not read the news. I have not watched the news, read blogs, online journals, or periodicals. I have been effectively cut off from events in the world.

It was no fun.

I am habitually plugged into  every source I can find. I read many US papers and news sites. I read the BBC, Al Jazeera, der Speigel, and NPR. I read Left leaning blogs, Right leaning blogs, radicals and reactionaries.  This is my usual daily regiment of sources, but by no means am I limited to them. I regularly branch out in pursuit of information.

For the past week I have not had any news. It was weird. The first thing I noticed was a feeling of something missing. Not knowing what is going on is an interesting feeling, but I think that my opinion and view of the matter is bias. I did realize just how easy it is not to be informed. Staying away from the sites I habitually visit every day, I discovered that it is hard to find news in everyday sources and mundane browsing.

I realize how easy it is to live in ignorance of what is going on in the world, and I do mean ignorance. If you don't have the desire to know or find out, no one and no thing is pressing that information on you.  In my view, it is very important to have some token understanding of world events, hell, even just national events. Its no wonder polls can say anything the pollsters want them to say.

If you are not looking in today's culture, you will be hard pressed to see what is right in front of you. Its sort of sad, but at the same time, millions of people can live happy lives without caring about all the misery, hurt, joy, and jubilation going on in the world.

Who am I, a political addict, to tell them to look around and disrupt their made up utopian world. I don't really know what else to say, other than it amazes me how much information is available. Information that is hidden from view unless you know where to look.

Uh Oh

Is there a blogger hell? One in which the persecuted are people who start a blog and then subsequently ignore it for months at a time? In this world of constant updates and 24/7 information about, well, anything; it would be entirely likely for a hell of non-updaters to exist. After all, we are reflections of what we create, therefore why have a medium with which to tell the world of your exploits when it sits on a server, collecting gremlins.

To this I answer thusly: I am slightly hungry and Oooo a shiny penny!