Because so much of it is so depressing and draining. Or very convoluted (like politics). It just adds too much negativity to one's life sometimes.
And thus:
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I understand that the Internet demographic is more skewed towards a younger audience, but this is just hilarious. We really do like our beautiful famous people that are a part of our entertainment consumption...because hey, entertainment is part of our joy and happiness, and is not a turnoff like trying to make sense of political bickering.
You are not serious, are you? You cannot be serious? What an appalling, deeply depressing post. Shrink is absolutely right, pathetic is the word. Beyond pathetic, in fact.
I can't blame people for being ignorant because it takes a little effort to actually read something with significant conten!?
It's so depressing and draining to inform oneself about something other the the behavior of some useless "celebrities" and their hairstyles!?
This could be the most depressing post I've read in a very long time. I certainly wouldn't want anyone to put themselves out to be informed about anything more important than Lindsey Lohan's latest bust.
This is beyond pathetic...
I couldn't agree more with you.
Are you somehow channeling me? I feel this is a post I could have written, but with a few more run on sentences.
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Therefore, yes, I can most certainly blame people for being ignorant. It takes very little effort to inform yourself and in some cases, you'd have to be living under a rock to not at least know of certain issues going on today.
Oh, yes.And a profound and heartfelt amen to this post, too.
OP, that is a terrible thing to think, and to write. Horrifying.
For most of history people had no say in who ruled them, and limited access to any sort of information which would allow for them to have a say in how their own lives were conducted. Knowledge is power, which is why dictatorships, and totalitarian regimes the world over - not to mention many of the world's religions to whom education and knowledge are a constant threat - seek to curtail access to it.
Ignorance is no excuse, and revelling in ignorance is one of the most dreadful things anyone can choose to do to themselves. You can inform yourself, and you choose not to, simply because it is 'convoluted'. Of course, it is 'convoluted' - anything that has evolved beyond the structure of an amoeba is 'convoluted'.
As for your frightful sentence that entertainment is
'not a turnoff like trying to make sense of political bickering'..............well, 'political bickering' is the price we pay for encouraging the development of democracy.
Democracy means pluralism, the right to freedom of speech, association, of assembly and so on. Crucially, it also means the right of a loyal opposition to exist - that is, a body, or group, who are elected and who oppose the Government but are not deemed to be traitors or mortal enemies of the state or governing elite. This is why (and where) - 'political bickering' the right to disagree in an elected forum, or the forum of public opinion, takes place. The concept of a 'loyal opposition', that is, an opposition loyal to the state but allowed to oppose the Government on matters of public policy is a key feature of modern functioning democracies, and marks a huge advance in how we choose to govern ourselves in the western world.
Of course, some states don't have 'political bickering'; they silence, smother, or otherwise stifle political opposition. Sometimes, they murder them. There are states where it is illegal to mock the president, states where it is impolitic to demonstrate anything other than the most overblown declarations of affection; in such states there is no bickering at all, as everyone (in public at least) professes undying love and boundless gratitude to the tyrant who rules them.
I'll go further. The rights which we currently enjoy in the western world did not come easily; they were fought for, often in bitter, bloody battles, and viciously nasty philosophical disputes: Remember all those justifications for why those lacking property should not enjoy any civil rights? Or the arguments (often reinforced by religious quotations) about why women, by virtue of their gender were fundamentally incapable of governing themselves or exercising independent judgement? And surely, a forum mostly inhabited by citizens of the US will recall some of the truly ferocious rhetoric used to justify the indefensible history - and dismal legal reality - of race relations in the United States?
These battles had to be fought, physically, intellectually and philosophically. Very, very convoluted stuff indeed, because a key argument of those groups who held power - and sought to retain it - was that those who were less privileged merited their inferior position; philosophical argument, discussion and debate - in other words, 'political bickering' was the only way to challenge such arguments, and challenge their underlying assumptions, short of resorting to outright violence to achieve long overdue political and social changes. Rights that are not defended - such as the to right to inform yourself, - can easily be taken away. What was that quote again, the one about the price of liberty being constant vigilance?
How dare someone who comes from a wealthy, stable, country, where information is readily available, choose not to inform himself because it is 'too convoluted' and 'too depressing'.
Sigh. If the OP had been a student of mine, and came out with that sort of witless nonsense in a classroom, where ignorance is celebrated and thought derided because it is 'too convoluted, depressing and draining', he would have received more than a flea in his ear before departing from the classroom........
