How simple the world must have seemed when you could read everything that happens in a day in a small newspaper, or in an hour-long radio program.

Do you believe in the idea of a simpler, less complicated world?

i fucked up that thread title because i have been drinking and missed a few words i apologize!

I do think connectedness - the vast availability of information - complicates one's internal life. I don't think the actual business of living is more complicated; it's the inner life that has become crowded with data. the basic problems of life though I don't see as more complicated really at all. just the noise around them.

ppl are getting way more ADD I think

i think 'morals' have really suffered from the interconnectedness of things. when it was just you and your village you could apportion right and wrong pretty easily, cause and effect. now it's all fucked up.

Society is in the gutter

Yes, I try to limit the amount of news I 'consume'.

Stephen Colbert has talked about this repeatedly over the last few years, that "news" as such hasn't really changed or increased; you had your morning paper and your evening paper and your Walter Conkrite broadcast. What happened next was that you needed to fill 24 hours of airtime on a news channel, so you brought in pundits and commentators and analysts to endlessly re-churn whatever news story or idiotic narrative you had for that day.

Simplistic narratives win out over complex ones; sports coverage wins out over more detailed policy explanation, and so it goes.