tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30488151218644029402024-02-20T21:48:13.650-08:00Basic InstinctsOrall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-56031048728254806102020-02-06T11:38:00.000-08:002020-02-07T01:16:43.173-08:00I'm Giving up the Internet - "The End of News"
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Originally written Nov 2019)</span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Specifically, I'm giving up watching YouTube videos and looking at various news feeds (e.g. news.bbc.co.uk). Why? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I realised that my life is getting stale. These feeds are part of that staleness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daily habit is to check the News and Youtube for the latest. I realised that there's not much interesting out there. There are just lots of people trying to make boring stuff interesting. This irritates me. I switched off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I saw an excellent documentary on the <a href="https://www.netflix.com/watch/80997772" target="_blank"><b>Vietnam War</b></a> recently. I see today's news in that context.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ongoing Brexit & Trump stories. It's all boring to me. Put these against the Vietnam War & protests, Nixon's activities and other historical events, these just seem boring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(I also consider that I don't have much power to influence these events: so why should I get worked up about them? It's a sign that I need to get a life).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't remember any significant news in the UK since the Brexit referendum in 2016. 'News' is defined as: "newly received or noteworthy information"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Could this be "The End of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">News?" That is, will these reports even register a blip in the timeline of human history? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Lots of people trying to make boring stuff interesting" : </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crowds of people standing on a platform. Is that what we're defining as 'chaos'? Oxford definition: "complete disorder and confusion". Try the evacuation of people from Saigon at the end of the war. That's more like chaos for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Lots of people trying to make boring stuff interesting" : </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can I ask a favour? When you see something like the above, PLEASE don't click it! It's most likely a non-story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is another type of non-story. Look out for keywords such as 'could' or 'might mean'. It's a journalist making up predictions about the future (i.e. speculation). Yes it could happen, but it could just as likely NOT HAPPEN AT ALL, and so what was the point? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>(Update Feb 2020: what was the outcome of that story?)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But we never keep track of the accuracy of these predictions, so they get away with it again & again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next time you catch the news, see if you can spot:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A) Speculation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(e.g. "could", "might", "implication") - 1 pt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B) Exaggeration </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(e.g. "political infighting" instead of "disagreement") - 3 pts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do journalists go to these lengths to get us to click? Why use words like 'chaos' instead of 'inconvenience'? Because there's not too much interesting these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No. It became clearer to me, thinking about YouTube Vloggers: they have subscribers (equals money) and need to keep producing content. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They can't say, "today I have nothing to tell you". If there's not much to say, they have to make something up. It's similar with the news media. Speculation and exaggeration go a long way in filling up pages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Further, content producers know that negative news attracts views, because of <a href="https://amzn.to/373Rx5l" target="_blank">our fear of threat and loss</a>. BUT I know that it's cumulatively harmful to my mental wellbeing, so I turn away. Others aren't so aware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this is serious. Ask yourself: "By what means do most of us</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> find out what's going on in the world?" Answer: the News Media. What effect does it have on society if reports are negative, speculative or exaggerated?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybe we do actually have some power here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">Stop clicking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See more in my book: "<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01KN4UX3Q" target="_blank">Things You Shouldn't Say Out Loud</a>".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also published: "<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010EGB9MC" target="_blank">Murder Your Mortgage in 7 Years</a>".</span></div>
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Orall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-26221633906168581452016-09-04T00:27:00.000-07:002016-09-04T00:37:33.770-07:00Healthy Ageing<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's clear that smoking and drinking age people and the damage must be proportional. I drink water. I try to listen to my body as I get older. It's telling me I don't need to eat so much these days and discipline when peckish is good. I'm also finding I like fish and salads.</span></div>
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Homicide is in there, but stats suggest we should be more concerned about drivers (<a href="http://makingthelink.net/child-deaths-road-traffic-accidents" target="_blank">near 20,000 injuries to young people</a>) than the child catcher. Doesn't make the headlines though, does it?</div>
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Low probabilities make the headlines and cause fear, but high probabilities don't so much.</div>
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<br />Orall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-31417866986912506902016-01-31T07:31:00.000-08:002016-01-31T07:31:38.220-08:00Be Drug Aware<div style="text-align: center;">
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Orall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-31316241267043355902014-08-19T13:18:00.001-07:002016-09-25T07:02:01.341-07:00God's Image?<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><br /></span>
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anything about the value of human life. The above is a subjective ordering, but
there could be an empirical and quantitative basis. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">- On 18 October 2011 captured IDF tank gunner Gilad Shalit,
captured by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas in 2006, was released
in exchange for 1027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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majority of victims were American. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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than the national average. This situation is perennial and so therefore
presumably tolerable. Some have speculated that, "if this situation
existed in communities outside of the African American community, it would be
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massive scale is a taken for granted given. Infant mortality is 26 times higher
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effect? Yeah, you know – when you buy that new pair of trainers, all gleaming
and bright: there’s no way you’re gonna
mess them up. Mind out mate, don’t step on my trainers! Gotta avoid that
puddle. And it’s not only trainers; it applies to anything new: cars, phone,
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yesterday and watched News at 10 on hers. Top stories – school girl murderer
convicted; one of the conjoined twins die; Queen’s speech marred by Damian
Green affair; home repossessions on the up; Ford, Chrysler and GM under threat
of bankruptcy; mother dies being dragged under her own car. Isn’t there any
good news in the world? Surely someone must have done something good yesterday:
someone made money, someone contributed to society in a positive way, invented
something really cool or saved someone’s life.<span style="color: #38761d;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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surprise that people are afraid. The news is where people get a lot of their
information from and it’s no surprise that they think that our government is in
a state of collapse, a terrorist or some stranger or the NHS is going to kill
you and you could well lose your job and your house tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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greater the tragedy, the better. You can hear the disappointment when a tragedy
(e.g. plane crash) doesn’t turn out so tragic after all (no fatalities). As a
consolation, however, they can still speculate on how bad it might’ve been
(‘could have led to death on an unprecedented scale’). Scum. If you turn off
the TV, shut the newspaper and actually look around you, the reality is that
life is mostly quite uneventful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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job, didn’t get killed or stabbed and didn’t get blown up. The trains ran fine.
During the day I didn’t see any obvious signs of the government fiddling my
balls and I worked, got paid and went back to my mortgaged house (curiously, it
hadn’t been repossessed), where I didn’t murder my family. In fact, they
weren’t dead – my wife was doing some work and my kids were asleep.</span><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Orall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-90496168305712366052013-05-05T11:56:00.000-07:002016-01-31T11:58:19.300-08:00The Theme of My Song Is...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what’s happened to all the ‘social
commentary’ or ‘political’ type songs that used to be mainstream? What about
songs that aren’t based on the above love themes? Some examples:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bloody Sunday<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sweet Symphony<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Monday<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or songs that approach the subject of love in
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Over Feet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m sure there are even better examples than
these; but they question is, where is this type of music today? The first thing
to ask is why did these songs come about? There was probably a profound cause,
a mood or a feeling that produced these songs. There also needed to be people
with an intellect, a passion or a certain sensitivity to create these songs.
Also, the public had to be receptive to these songs for them to become popular.
So why not today? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It must either be (1) the public don’t want
them, (2) songwriters don’t want to create them, (3) songwriters don’t have the
ability or sensibilities to create them, (4) songwriters are prevented or
deterred from creating them or (5) there are no issues or stimulus for the
creation of such songs. I am tempted to conclude, however, that it’s a
reflection of the superficial and vacuous nature of our society today.</span><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Orall Corneliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136779152649956138noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3048815121864402940.post-55421732261912930482013-02-08T01:37:00.000-08:002016-01-31T10:56:52.205-08:00How to get your girlfriend back<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">1. Abruptly break off all contact</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Point 2 also includes asking friends for info about what that person is up to, who they’re going out with etc. But point 3 is the real key. You have to put yourself in a frame of mind where you are determined to enjoy yourself, but genuinely enjoy yourself. How can I best explain this…</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I broke up with my girlfriend at university, but we still had to go to the same lectures. I was sitting with my mate Illy from Newcastle a few rows ahead of where she was sitting. Before the lecture started we always had a good laugh (he was a funny guy); but I was laughing peculiarly hard – just so she could hear and could see that I wasn't in any way hurt by the break up and was in no way sad, depressed or suicidal and was having an amazingly good time being single away from that stupid bitch (oops)… yeah right!</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">So you see, not that kind of bogus “I’m really enjoying myself” – it’s embarrassing, can easily be seen through and just doesn't work. What I should’ve been doing was studying, then going down to the Sugarhouse student club and having a bloody good time with my mates (and not pulling for the purpose of getting back at that silly bitch…oops there I go again).</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Oh – one more thing – do not bore your mates with talk about what happened and what she’s doing now etc. Shut up and mind your own business – you’re boring!</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">What should you do if you see your ex? Well, do not go out of your way to avoid them and do not go out of your way to meet them. It depends on how you broke up. At the one extreme you say nothing and act normally; at the other extreme you'll be your normal pleasant self, say “hi” and keep any conversation brief and superficial. Don’t hang around.</span></h1>
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<span style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">…which often has the effect of making the other person want to come back. Problem is, you’re having such a good time genuinely enjoying yourself, enjoying your own company and the company of others that you’re not sure you want them back any more. If taking them back presents itself as an option some time down the road, you’ll know instinctively if and when (if you haven’t already found someone else)!</span></h1>
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