Comments on: If I was Jesus or Harry Potter, we’d have peace in this world

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:29:47 +0000

What you say is depressingly true, db and YOS, but there is another reason the 24/7 media chases those ‘missing blonde girls’ stories so assiduously, aside from having time to fill.

The maroons who are glued to the set over Natalie Holloway are the same people who buy supermarket tabloids and Sarah Palin books. Advertisers love them because they’re so freaking gullible and easy to gull into buying junk jewelry, overpriced gold coins and the latest ‘new and improved’ box of high-fructose crapola on the market. I believe the ad industry calls them ‘low discrimnation purchasers.’ They really can’t poor piss from a boot with the instructions printed on the heel, but they can be easily convinced they need such a boot for their urine, especially if it’s low in fat and sweet-tasting.

By: db

db — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:11:25 +0000

Agree completely Mr. Scribe, that absolute power corrupts absolutely, though I’d certainly like to wish that the disease known as “cancer” simply didn’t exist or that there was enough food, adequately distributed, that no one need to go to bed hungry in the world.

I’m not sure that I agree with the mass communication comment. I suggest that the problem arises no in reaching “everyone”; but rather in the 24 hr. broadcast news cycle. there simply isn’t enough “newsworthy” news to fill 24 hr/day. I mean how many persons in the USA really care that the Irish Government is about to collapse? How many care of the Knesset debates? How many can even name the countries of the former Soviet Union? (I can’t).

So you’ve got 24 hours of broadcasting to fill with something that won’t have the viewers turning off the TV. So you get the Natalie Holloway story for months on end. Members of Congress find that their pronouncements get broadcast no matter how nutty. You have pundits discussing the current news, regardless of whether there is news at all to discuss.

It’s not a matter of stupidity, it’s a matter of quantity.

By: Ye Olde Scribe

Ye Olde Scribe — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:54:21 +0000

The more “Mass” our communications become, the less worthy most of that Communications seems of being “communicated.” If “the medium is the message,” does that negate the innate stupidity of most of what we attempt to say?

Having the power of a Potter or a Jesus might be fun, but Scribe fears we’d all abuse, eventually. Notice that Jesus used his supposed power far less that one would think. Meddle and you may just further muck up the mess. Kind of like what happened in The Butterfly Effect.