tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330766246822130643.post5313440336772997381..comments2024-02-09T08:14:51.016-05:00Comments on ON THE VERGE: The Never-ending newsiness of the newsJody Casellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17892174349776047862noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330766246822130643.post-38211089497884669052020-10-26T19:39:48.922-04:002020-10-26T19:39:48.922-04:00Thanks for these links, Ben. I did read the first ...Thanks for these links, Ben. I did read the first one and remember it! And the other article... yes. It makes me think of two books I've read recently-- Desert Notebooks and But What If We're Wrong? :) There is so much about the future that feels unknowable--in flux, and maybe it's always been this way but somehow, now, the veil is torn off and we can see it plainly. Maybe the good that can ultimately come from all of this is figuring out what really matters and how, in the end, we choose to spend the time here that we have. Jody Casellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892174349776047862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330766246822130643.post-71156270911528524712020-10-26T19:28:58.405-04:002020-10-26T19:28:58.405-04:00No worries, Shari, re: the monarch. I may have got...No worries, Shari, re: the monarch. I may have gotten that fact wrong! This is an ongoing discussion on the gardening page and there is a lot of disagreement!Jody Casellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892174349776047862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330766246822130643.post-1425400083689029002020-10-26T14:25:36.832-04:002020-10-26T14:25:36.832-04:00I read somewhere (probably twitter...) that when t...I read somewhere (probably twitter...) that when the Nazis were annexing Austria in the 1930s, the Vienna newspapers started printing multiple issues per day because people were obsessively buying them to keep up with the hourly progress of the occupation. <br /><br />It reminds me of this blog post I think I shared with you when it came out: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/03/09/plot-economics/<br /><br />"Global narrative collapse events tend to have a very surreal glued-to-screens quality surrounding them. That’s how you know everybody has lost the plot: everybody is tracking the rawest information they have access to, rather than the narrative that most efficiently sustains their reality ... It’s not that we don’t trust narrative sources when we lose the plot. That’s a simpler problem for normal times. It’s that the narrative sources themselves are temporarily at a loss and don’t know what to say. "<br /><br />I think sources that bring back a narrative for us are the best things to consume from a mental health perspective (the risk being that the narrative is inaccurate or a ridiculous conspiracy theory). <br /><br />In the healthy vein, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier is bringing back the old monastic term "acedia" to label our current condition: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/covid-19-and-acedia.html <br />The comments are also interesting, about people feeling acedia in the 1980s about the possibility of nuclear warBenjamin Eskildsenhttp://benhub.ionoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330766246822130643.post-79815775339339623032020-10-26T12:16:47.842-04:002020-10-26T12:16:47.842-04:00YES to shutting out the "noise" so we ca...YES to shutting out the "noise" so we can hear ourselves think, feel, reflect, WRITE.<br /><br />I had not heard that about not raking leaves so that monarch have a habitat. Er, I'm hoping its OK I have moved them to the forest.... And that I move the seed heads of most flowers to the forest, too.Sharihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09682684614485187955noreply@blogger.com