5 Marbles
Documenting the truth is more crucial than ever, when today’s news is prone to distortion, willful ignorance and lies; when untruths go viral in the blogosphere overnight and even conventional media sources give airtime and print space to erroneous claims and rumors.
Alan Huffman, “We’re with Nobody”
There’s no escaping it - I’m an adult and as such, I feel the desire to keep abreast of some of the developments in the world around me. Yet even though my parents watched the news and read the newspaper, I can only muster enough interest to view news spoofs à la Jon Stewart and the like. Even when the world seems like it’s going to hell in a handbasket, at least they can make me laugh about it.
Many of us take our food choices seriously but we are far less discerning about how we feed our minds. Dr. Andrew Weil recommends “news fasts” for anyone feeling stressed from being plugged into news through newspapers, television, and the internet. He recommends a conscious relationship with the media because our body gets physically affected by the negative perceptions of the world that we receive via the news (check his article out at http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART02034/simple-steps-to-a-better-life.html). I’m finding that a combination of newsish programs that connect me with what’s going on in the world sprinkled with TEDtalks speeches that connect me to what people are talking about in the world is my perfect diet. And now that my marbles are coming to an end and I can see the finish line with school not too far off, a question forms, “What is my place in the world?” *
Do you ingest too much junk media into your mind? Could you benefit from a newsfast? What is your place in the world?
* Aside from being a mother to three amazing kids
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