So what if my head is in the sand?

[DirkGently1]

I prefer to have conversations with people that know about world events. It opens you up to a lot of discussion, whether you like economics, scandal, policies, crime, entertainment...it makes you more of a dynamic individual when you can read about stuff in the news and discuss it.

No offense intended, but you must be really boring to talk to about anything since you seem to be unaware of what is going on the world and what is surrounding you.

Personally i'm interested in many diverse subjects. Let's take cosmology as an example. I'd rather discuss that with somebody who has spent their lives studying cosmology rather than somebody who wasted their time with 'current affairs'. In fact, if i they had enough time in their day to keep up with the lives of 'Brad and Jennifer', i wouldn't be speaking to them in the first place. Clearly they're not devoted enough to the academic nature of that subject.

Nor would i be speaking to them if i thought for a minute that the source of all their education was mainstream media! The minute someone tells me, "i heard on the news last night..", or "i read in the paper that...", they've lost all credibility straight away. 'The world according to popular media'. Yeah, that's a good way to live your life. It's nice to know that when you find yourself in a discussion that it's not with somebody that learned everything they know from a tabloid newspaper.

I'll hold a conversation on any subject you care to name, but i bet my sources are more reliable than yours! You got your science news from CNN? I got mine from reading the actual paper that was published. Without the bias and editing. If i want a conversation about IT tech, i'll have it with an IT professional. The minute some tedious bore starts talking about football scores and politics i'm gone.

Wow, you can quote Batting averages for the last twenty years and name the leader of every country in the free world? One person in a world of seven Billion did something horrible and 'newsworthy' and made the front page again? Yawn. If you've got time to read the papers and watch the news, you've also got time to educate yourselves in a thousand subjects that are more meaningful. Come back when you can carry a conversation about something interesting. You're boring me. Go learn something!

"Unaware of what's going on in the world". Don't make me laugh. Nothing of importance is 'going on in the world'. I'd rather talk to somebody who knows how the world came to be in the first place!

 

[cronos]

Personally i'm interested in many diverse subjects. Let's take cosmology as an example. I'd rather discuss that with somebody who has spent their lives studying cosmology rather than somebody who wasted their time with 'current affairs'. In fact, if i they had enough time in their day to keep up with the lives of 'Brad and Jennifer', i wouldn't be speaking to them in the first place. Clearly they're not devoted enough to the academic nature of that subject.

I just want to say that I find it really interesting that you chose 'Brad and Jennifer' to make your point.

To clarify, whatever point you're trying to make, I think you're doing it right

 

[AstroManLuca]

I can't really blame you that much. These days people don't watch the news in order to learn anyway; they watch in order to reinforce whatever beliefs they currently hold. So it's not like watching the news makes you that much more informed than if you didn't.

Well, I guess that depends on the news outlet. *not naming names*

 

[Squisher]

And when we do see the news, it's about all of the assholes who inhabit this great blue ball.

di·a·tribe 
a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism.

 

[Tim]

di·a·tribe 
a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism.

I'm sure the assholes of the world appreciate you sticking up for them. I'll be sure to remember your stance.

 

[Squisher]

I'm sure the assholes of the world appreciate you sticking up for them. I'll be sure to remember your stance.

Well, now I am confused. Me saying that we all have a responsibility to become knowledgeable of those things going on beyond our immediate associations is tantamount to defending malevolent individuals around the globe.

You're going to have to take me by the hand and lead me through your thought process that brought you to this conclusion.

 

[Gintaras]

Just curious, do you regularly vote in elections?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVrBzuyhFA

 

[dank69]

Personally i'm interested in many diverse subjects. Let's take cosmology as an example. I'd rather discuss that with somebody who has spent their lives studying cosmology rather than somebody who wasted their time with 'current affairs'. In fact, if i they had enough time in their day to keep up with the lives of 'Brad and Jennifer', i wouldn't be speaking to them in the first place. Clearly they're not devoted enough to the academic nature of that subject.

Nor would i be speaking to them if i thought for a minute that the source of all their education was mainstream media! The minute someone tells me, "i heard on the news last night..", or "i read in the paper that...", they've lost all credibility straight away. 'The world according to popular media'. Yeah, that's a good way to live your life. It's nice to know that when you find yourself in a discussion that it's not with somebody that learned everything they know from a tabloid newspaper.

I'll hold a conversation on any subject you care to name, but i bet my sources are more reliable than yours! You got your science news from CNN? I got mine from reading the actual paper that was published. Without the bias and editing. If i want a conversation about IT tech, i'll have it with an IT professional. The minute some tedious bore starts talking about football scores and politics i'm gone.

Wow, you can quote Batting averages for the last twenty years and name the leader of every country in the free world? One person in a world of seven Billion did something horrible and 'newsworthy' and made the front page again? Yawn. If you've got time to read the papers and watch the news, you've also got time to educate yourselves in a thousand subjects that are more meaningful. Come back when you can carry a conversation about something interesting. You're boring me. Go learn something!

"Unaware of what's going on in the world". Don't make me laugh. Nothing of importance is 'going on in the world'. I'd rather talk to somebody who knows how the world came to be in the first place!

How terribly enlightened of you. Odd that you dismiss politics of all things when it may be the one thing that has the most direct influence on your life. I wonder if you tore your nose out of a book long enough hear about the SOPA/PIPA thing that happened recently.

 

[DirkGently1]

How terribly enlightened of you. Odd that you dismiss politics of all things when it may be the one thing that has the most direct influence on your life. I wonder if you tore your nose out of a book long enough hear about the SOPA/PIPA thing that happened recently.

I'm fairly certain the research going on at CERN won't be impacted by the 'SOPA/PIPA thing'. Nor do i think for a moment that the scientists there are sitting and discussing it on their lunchbreaks. I would however love to sit at their table and listen in on what they are discussing. It would be far more interesting than last nights football scores!

 

[GrumpyMan]

In fact, if i they had enough time in their day to keep up with the lives of 'Brad and Jennifer'

Sorry had to stop reading after that, I was getting too bored. Thanks for trying though.

 

[Tim]

Just too many assholes posturing (on an internet forum) to keep this thread on track.

 

[piasabird]

If you dont know who to vote for anyway, what is the point?

 

[dank69]

I'm fairly certain the research going on at CERN won't be impacted by the 'SOPA/PIPA thing'. Nor do i think for a moment that the scientists there are sitting and discussing it on their lunchbreaks. I would however love to sit at their table and listen in on what they are discussing. It would be far more interesting than last nights football scores!

I think even the researchers at CERN use the internet from time to time. The point isn't whether or not those specific people were discussing it or not, but rather that enough people WERE paying attention to what was going on to pressure our representatives not to support it even though gobs of money were being handed to them by special interests asking them to pass it.

It just goes to show you if people do pay attention and people do contact their reps and make their voices heard, we CAN influence government and make our counrty a better place.