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the world today truly has become the global village once predicted by McLuhan 50 years ago it took three decades longer than he had thought but now we have all real time developments at our fingertips Trump talks to Putin and Duterte & cetera and we know about it right afterward thanks to his tweets that land on our mobile phones suicide bombs exploding in Damascus Baghdad Gamboru Kabul hit us on our social media right away so does the news about a bus that fell into a gorge      all 65 passengers killed      somewhere on the globe or of the cat caught in a sewer pipe rescued by these brave firemen little of all of that adds to our understanding of the universe or might be relevant to our lives a bit more positive reporting is in order at best served as sensational as the bad news      that keeps us occupied yet more important for our daily lives than all this hype about the danger and the devastation that      possibly      or not may happen if soandso does suchandsuch at times I contemplate if it is better to be out of touch and not to care about the news so very much
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 4:32 PM UTC
global village news
the world today truly has become the global village once predicted by McLuhan 50 years ago it took three decades longer than he had thought but now we have all real time developments at our fingertips Trump talks to Putin and Duterte & cetera and we know about it right afterward thanks to his tweets that land on our mobile phones suicide bombs exploding in Damascus Baghdad Gamboru Kabul hit us on our social media right away so does the news about a bus that fell into a gorge      all 65 passengers killed      somewhere on the globe or of the cat caught in a sewer pipe rescued by these brave firemen little of all of that adds to our understanding of the universe or might be relevant to our lives a bit more positive reporting is in order at best served as sensational as the bad news      that keeps us occupied yet more important for our daily lives than all this hype about the danger and the devastation that      possibly      or not may happen if soandso does suchandsuch at times I contemplate if it is better to be out of touch and not to care about the news so very much
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 4:32 PM UTC
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