Daily Data

Every morning I fulfill my regimen of reading web based news sites. I meander through AOL, USA Today, MSN and MSNBC to get the near mandatory scoop on all the worlds new statements, gossip and policy. As I browse these publishings and on-demand videos, It’s my natural tendency to disregard the articles that don’t have juicy titles and gravitate to the ones that provide sustenance for the mischievous voyeur in every one of us. Stories about O.J., tasered college students, terrible weather tragedies, and University shootings have now become a palpable accompaniment to ones morning coffee and muffin. These shattering chronicles seem but a mere reflection of the “real world” to those warmly nestled behind their desks at their jobs. We see technological, educational, and economic gaps increasing within our borders, but do we feel a personal inclination to actually try to help those conditions? They say it’s a recession when your neighbor is out of work but it’s a depression when you’re out of work. So I ask, has the plethora of information distributed and consumed by the public made us jaded and impervious to the strife of others? As I stated before, this is truly and information age. One statistic states that a person living in the mid 1800’s would receive as much information in one year that is available today in one issue of the New York Times. Has all this processing of data not given us time to be as empathetic as we should be as concerned citizens and human brethren? I think so. My advice is to fight the battles you can win everyday. When you can personally help and enrich someone’s circumstances by giving a dollar, holding a door, having an opinion, or (even more dangerous), voicing an opinion, you will prove the fading perception that there is in-fact intelligent life on Earth. Peace.