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Editorial: Ramblings
by Rick Arnold
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Where did summer go? Seems like I turned away for a second and bang
-- winter. What is this hand basket and where are we really going and
so quickly? The millennium is approaching; in years past I looked to
the year 2000 with anticipation. Now?
There seem to be so many problems within our society, that we've
no future, well, not the "American Dream" future that I envisioned
as a child, the promises were there but . . .
Maybe in this day and age of immediate communications where the
most disgusting abomination can be served to us -- moments after
happening, the situation unfolding, body parts being quickly shrouded
from view, "live" and in color via TV -- served catastrophe along with
our supper -- and we simply haven't learned how to cope with these
massive amounts of negative information received on a daily basis! We
don't have time to grieve and assimilate one tragedy before being
inundated by another. Before the advent of telecommunications via
satellite, news videos would take at least a day or so to arrive;
less immediacy and less of an assault on our senses.
Perhaps, everything is really the same, OK, tolerable with problems
that need to be worked through, just like every generation before us.
I guess the pre-war babies (WW II) were spoon fed similar promises,
and those who were pre-WW I were fed the very same promises. Perhaps,
the only difference is: it took them longer to hear of the economic
woes, political crises, and tragedies that happened around their
towns, states, our country -- around the world. I keep hearing, "times
were good then," or "it used to be good, but;" what is wrong with NOW?
In the past, tragic news had less impact, a newscaster read the
story or you'd receive the information in your newspaper, with little
video stimulation, a short news clip, or a black and white photo. Not
nearly the impact achieved and delivered in stereo with real surround
sound, "living color," and with big screen TV, nearly "life" size,
right in our living rooms.
No wonder our youth are traumatized and forming gangs; they have to
for self-defense! They see rival gangs taking action across town,
across the country. The enemy is there -- right on TV! So it's got to
be true, or does it? The KKK is everywhere, the junkies are everywhere,
militias are everywhere, radical Muslims are everywhere, criminals are
everywhere, the ENEMY is everywhere or is it?
Who is the enemy? Are we our own worst enemy? The actual numbers of
drug dealers, killers, gang members, radical terrorists, criminals and
other threats to our "American Dream" are minuscule in comparison to
our population! Instead of watching sensationalized threats to our way
of life and our existence, go to where people are meeting, a political
rally, a town meeting, a PTA meeting -- meet your neighbors, make news
-- GOOD NEWS! Life is good, make it better -- share that goodness with
others. Turn off the TV! Like my father used to say, "Git out and let
the stink blow off ya."
{DREAM}
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