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News v. Knowledge

During college I did something that I wish I had the will to do today - I did not follow any of the news.  Any of it.  When a classmate told me that the World Trade Center buildings had been hit, I assumed it was eco-terrorists.  When he said, "Bin Laden," I had no response.  I didn't know whom Bin Laden was.  When a girl told me I looked sort of like George W. Bush, I felt nothing.  "Who's that?" People were shocked.  How could I not follow current events?  Yet when I asked these people about Aristotle, their brains were blank pieces of paper. Back then I did not study the news: I studied knowledge.  There is a difference. The "news" is simply a collection of transitory events that corporations and government want us to pay attention to.  Did you know that the Ground Zero Mosque isn't really a mosque?  It's a large community center - basically a YMCA for Muslims...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 28, 2010 (boomark / email).