No News Is Good News - by Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
No News Is Good News - by Thomas J Bevan - The Commonplace
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- The presentation of factoids and images-no matter how many- will never provide you with insight into the functional context of how the world works. In fact the more images and updates and dispatches from the frontline you imbibe the less it all makes sense. The news is the opposite of understanding because understanding is a question of seeing processes and trends. These exist on a wider timeframe than the immediacy of news allows and most of it is unfilmable, messy and often tedious. This is why real understanding of a thing can only come from books and long-form work and above all, actual thought and experience. Rather than being a thing that fosters thought, the news seems to actively suppress the act of thinking.