Pulling Focus
Jun. 7th, 2023 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I stopped reading newspapers last November. I made the resolution and haven't broken it yet. I think I'm better informed as a result.
Once in a while if I'm in a shop that sells the ruddy things I'll scan the the headlines and think "disinformation and distraction"- and sometimes when I'm on the Net I'll click on a link that takes me to a newspaper site and read something that has nothing to do with what passes for current affairs- but that's all.
When you don't read newspapers it's as if you've twiddled a knob and the objects that occupy the foreground- prime ministers and presidents and celebs- go all blurry and the objects behind them- principalities and powers and angelic hierarchies- emerge in much sharper focus
Once in a while if I'm in a shop that sells the ruddy things I'll scan the the headlines and think "disinformation and distraction"- and sometimes when I'm on the Net I'll click on a link that takes me to a newspaper site and read something that has nothing to do with what passes for current affairs- but that's all.
When you don't read newspapers it's as if you've twiddled a knob and the objects that occupy the foreground- prime ministers and presidents and celebs- go all blurry and the objects behind them- principalities and powers and angelic hierarchies- emerge in much sharper focus
