I looked at the morning news for inspiration for a new blog post. But the Trump-inspired insurrection is consuming all the air in the news media. It's big news in the nation's capital, but elsewhere in the heartland you wouldn't know anything untoward had happened unless you turned on the TV news or picked up a newspaper.
Life is normal. Working people go to work. People at home wash and dry their clothes, and clean and dust their homes. People go shopping, cook meals, go through the fast-food drive-through, and order take-out pizza.
People go hunting and fishing. They drive or fly to vacation spots. They watch YouTube videos. They study Spanish or French or Italian or Chinese on language-teaching websites. Some even write blog posts in the cold, dark hours of early morning.
The TV news media doesn't present a true picture. It's like a magnifying lens, focusing on and enlarging part of what is in the news, until that news appears to be the only thing happening in America. For 99% of Americans, nothing has changed. Covid-19 and vaccinations are the important news. Local news is important, too: business hours that have changed, morning road accidents that have re-routed the morning's drive-to-work traffic. The world still turns, the sun still rises and sets.
People in foreign lands should not let the news spook them about traveling to America. Unless you travel to the nation's capital, you probably will not know that anything unusual is taking place. For 99% of Americans, all the weirdness is taking place on their TV screens, not on their streets. People work, people play, and life goes on.
To quote Bobby McFerrin, "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
1 comment:
Life will continue no matter what happens in this world. The bad thing is that everything that is happening is in Apocalipsis or Revelations and people don't pay attention or don't care. It is a shame.
Nice post!
TA
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