Trust in our personal beliefs aid our perception. While some beliefs can be shaped, e.g. an environmental stimulus that adds a temporary energy to our physiology, it is the core values that a book is more likely to shape than a morning headline.
Consider how TV made morning headlines with a cup of coffee the standard for the nuclear family between 1950 to 1980. The Internet is still subject to morning headlines. Why? We do not need to wait for ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, or BBC to edit a story and fit a time slot. Yet this is how the world continues to turn. It did not turn this way before TV. Sure it is changing, but way to slow. When there is no urgent reason to slow us down, it is probably fake.
Alas.. I could rant on. Simply, I see the clarity in your words of query.
I actually have no clue how things were in states around that time. I guess Im still to young and to east european.
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Do you think that world is changing to slow?
Thank you again for being so supportive.
The global information system is "finally" changing. College taught us how the Internet would change society. Years ago, innovators in the tech space let their exasperation known that the change was occurring too slowly. My example of how we obtain our news is uncommon. The example typically used is telecommuting replacing 9 to 5 workdays (although that would technically be owed more to the computer itself).
Trust in your personal believe system you said
waooooo........ that is really a hard thing to do now when what you believe in is subject to change based on what we see
That is why I threw in the book vs. news briefing analogy. Back in the 80s, long before the Internet, the word 'twit' was a derogatory term for someone who spent too much time watching tv. Now it is thrown around in daily conversation with the Office of the Presidency.
Pre-Internet, we walked to our local libraries for information. Today, reading is more common than tv, so I can see how the usage can change. However, I learned in obtaining a degree in aviation the importance of writing as a method for organized communication. A book, presents an opportunity to exchange life altering events of the mind. That is the kind of trust in oneself to which I referred.
very true