A quick examination from the Real World can give you a status update on your Net World.
In the past year, I bought only one Sunday newspaper. As a youth, the Sunday newspaper used to be a family event which adult and kids teared a part the thick stack for his or her favorite section. No longer.
In the past year, I bought only a few magazines. In college, the newspaper stands were filled with weekly and monthly publications you read like religion. No longer.
In the past year, I bought about a half dozen books at the book store. In college and until recently, I could easily read a text or novel on a weekly basis. In the slow descent of the times, it went down to maybe one a month. Now, about half of those are on the table unread.
It is not that the publications do not have interesting subject matter. Or that on the most part, the publications have gotten thinner while the price tag increased. It comes down to that pesky little thing called TIME. No, not the magazine, but the grinding linear concept of the 24 hour clock, 7 day work week.
It is the Down Time part of the equation which is squeezing the Past routines from the Present realities.
As an individual, you are your own gatekeeper of knowledge. The acquisition of knowledge is a primary goal in education and experience. The application of knowledge is the driving force eating away at your work day. It is the sum and substance of the stop watch arm whizzing through the day that one realizes that it is not slowing down but speeding up. There is less time to vegetate or relax.
So it usually falls to the quick and dirty game of hit-and-run information gathering. It is not as bad as watching sausage being made at a slaughterhouse. It is not only the quantity of the content available but the quality of the information that is at stake. Professional journalists are trained to report accurate, collaborated, truthful statements of fact. But internet conventions do not have the check and balances of a reporter-editor-publisher review of the content before it is published to the world. Book publishers used to have staffs of fact checkers to verify the claims of non-fiction writers. What is true and what is false is nebulous concept on the net because the culture has shifted toward rewarding opinion over factual reporting. The 24/7 cable news channel is fed easier with talk-like shows opining and speculating on the news headlines of the day. In tabloid rumor fashion, the blocks of time are filled with inane spouts of speculation, political gamesmanship and press release fodder.
The nation is being lulled into the gray area between truth and falsity. If someone believes a statement is true then it is true. It is not politically correct a person's misstatements. Such bias discourse has made people tune away from alleged news programs. News media web sites link with wire service stories are becoming a staple of short information gaps. But even news organizations are hyping their own blogs and columnists which contain opinion and speculation over the hard news that has been the foundation of the news business since Ben Franklin began cranking out revolutionary newsletters.
cyberbarf
EXAMINE THE NET WAY OF LIFE
Inspired by the world being on the verge of the wide world of professional video gamers,
there will be the same kind of professional sports weird craziness, like prima donna players and strange pro agents.
And the with the term, Rapter, we defer to the Japanese anime spelling just to be difficult/different.
A NEW REAL NEWS KOMIX:
RAPTER AGENT
