Anyone Else Feel Overwhelmed?
I am constantly running into (and amassing) newspaper articles and clippings that I want to post on DU,
but every time a fresh new outrage appears on the very next page,
and it all gets to be too overwhelming. I have run out of time to post my angry feelings about every little tidbit of everything that is going wrong with our society. The worst part about it is that what makes me angry about all these articles is precisely the cavalier way in which all these news clips are dropped by commentators who don't see the NO in what's going on. There is nothing but surface analysis and so there is nothing to latch on to. It's very Orwellian. If you create a whole media environment where certain things go unquestioned, that becomes the new normal. This forces me to expend mental energy railing against the news every time I attempt to post an article, which expends massive emotional energy that constrains one from posting, since I am often forced to explain to friends, and other posters exactly what is so wrong in the first place, and why I am telling them about what to them sounds like nothing to complain about. And no response generally means nobody has a problem with what was in the article or newscast, namely, people accept the version of the news (the "gloss"
as it is presented to them. Everyone I know reads this stuff and ignores what I consider important, namely, the little facts and asides that show how fucked up our society is getting are glossed over since that is the new normal. In newspapers, this is known as "burying the lede". So often, at least in most mainstream media outlets, nobody even notices the important facts, they only focus on the bullshit framing we're supposed to adhere to, such as ending the Bush Tax cuts being suddenly a threat that requires us to tweet what the consequences would be to our wallet, city councilmen appointed in closed sessions who are developers, beloved Democratic policy makers who turn out to have millions invested in the Keystone pipeline, the nation's capital being touted as a haven for the super-rich, and that sort of thing. Now I have a pile of articles (literally) unsent to DU that I wanted to rail about, but every time I try to post them I threaten to blow a blood vessel. And many of these news stories seem to go unnoticed. But the trail of bad news dates back too far.
Once you get locked into a serious collection of offensive newspaper articles and bookmarks... the tendency is to take it as far as you can go. At some point, you realize you aren't even telling people about them anymore... there's no time, because there's too much bad news and not enough good news. you're just collecting them because they make you angry. Then you know you have a problem when you grow to hate your local newspaper for its biased reporting, so you stop trying to "read between the lines" and just collect the articles to read later, because the subject makes you too angry and you know what spin they'll put on it.
Mind you, I understand the root cause of this, and it's not that I'm a newspaper hoarder (really, I'm not) 
It's that the zeitgeist has changed and moved on, and my political opinions and views no longer have a home among the average sheeple.
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Good to know that privatization is now the remedy for all apparent ills. 
