In the early 1970s, as a kid, I happened upon the general store routine in a rural area of the south. There...you’d have five or six older gentlemen who mostly read local newspapers and listened to Paul Harvey. They could engage in a conversation and in five minutes lay out the entire topic, the positions, the problems, and settle for differing opinions.
Today, you have various news networks trying to complicate the subjects, and bringing on fake ‘experts’ who simply can’t debate or talk at the level of my old general store debate ‘team’. So you end up with a whole hour wasted on what could have been accomplished in the 1970s in five to ten minutes.
I think if you downsized the news networks, and people just limited themselves to 30 minutes a day.....we’d all be better off.
It’s hard for me to imagine someone thinking to themselves 50 years from now that the rise of the 24 hour news cycle, smart phones, and social media were these really great things for our culture.
Freegards