Submission + - What "news for nerds" sites should I use? 8
So, Slashdot, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex"
This is essentially the same phenomenon that TV news has been performing, and which has convinced many people that there is an epidemic of child abductions and other violent crime in our society. (And there is not.) The improbable events of 7 billions lives are being condensed into our individual (vicarious) experience – but with the average person being unable to instinctively grasp that vast context – and we're losing our sense of perspective. Little wonder that people are locking themselves and their children inside gated, armed enclaves.
This coincides eerily with the lyrics from "Vicarious" by TooL:
"Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me,
Whatever flavor it happens to be...
Live while the whole world dies,
You all need it too, don't lie."
(Also: "Much better you then I")
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.