Does that mean I’m cured of my lifelong addiction?<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s strange to think that within living memory \u201cnews\u201d occupied two small places in average first-world lives: the pages of a morning newspaper and a 15-minute segment (later expanded to half an hour) on television before the real evening programming began.<\/p>\n
I suspect we owe Lee Harvey Oswald (or whoever really killed JFK) for kicking off our present 24\/7 fixation. Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if we could owe Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and their media followers for finally ending our obsession\/addiction\/FOMO on every political development?<\/p>\n
Yeah, I know. Tech alone means endless news will always be \u2026 endless. Besides, the more all-consuming government becomes, the more everything becomes political, and the more we get sucked in, for sheer self-defense if nothing else. <\/p>\n
But a girl can dream.<\/p>\n
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I’ve been working on a blogosaurus about the cumulative effects of child abuse (both freelance and institutional). <\/p>\n
It began with unorganized thoughts and seemingly random memories pouring out on paper, without plan or direction. I wasn’t sure, and am still not sure, it will ever shape itself into anything blogable. But I finally realized that if it had a theme, that theme would paraphrase Stalin’s famous quote about one death being a tragedy, but a million deaths being merely a statistic.<\/p>\n
One damaged life is a tragedy; a million damaged lives is a society.<\/p>\n
Heaven help us.<\/p>\n
Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n As I say, I don’t know when or whether that blog will ever see daylight. So in the meantime, here’s a link sent by FM on a similar topic:<\/p>\n We must stop labeling and drugging our kids<\/a> for acting like kids.<\/p>\n —–<\/p>\n And some more links for you:<\/p>\n I’m back from a Thanksgiving break. I hope everybody had a filling and fulfilling holiday. Mine was quiet and uncomplicated, exactly the way I like it. Just some random thoughts … —– The Trump impeachment hearings have finally done for me what years of willpower and determination couldn\u2019t do: They\u2019ve made me lose all interest in politics. For years I\u2019ve known intellectually (and have written) that political \u201cnews\u201d is mostly a con and a diversion. For years I swore off news and politics (which are increasingly synonymous) and pledged to ignore them. But I was sucked in anyhow. Now? I\u2019m…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EKGRBWYXUAEN2Yo.jpg\")
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