{"id":988,"date":"2010-03-10T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=426"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:57:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T17:57:34","slug":"sea-of-irrelevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"sea of irrelevance"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue our Georgia On My Mind Tour<\/em> (Is that original, or what?) \u00a0 We are at the Open Door Community<\/em> in Atlanta for this phase of the tour, as we continue to look at urban poverty issues. \u00a0 The last few days, I’ve had several talks with one of the staff members here. \u00a0 \u00a0 He’s tremendously concerned about the direction the country is going. \u00a0 He said this could be best expressed in the book Amusing Ourselves To Death<\/em>. \u00a0 He said the book notes, for instance, that many people have lost the ability to do critical thinking because they’ve become addicted to the sound bytes and quick images coming at them on television. \u00a0 The book notes that George Orwell, author of 1984,<\/em> \u00a0 feared those who would ban books. \u00a0 While what Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World<\/em>, \u00a0 was worried about is that there would be no one left who wanted to read a book. \u00a0 Orwell feared those who would conceal the truth from us. \u00a0 Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a “sea of irrelevance.” As a modern day example, we get engrossed with movies, situations comedies, sporting events, reality shows… Meanwhile the real<\/em> reality is that 4,400 babies go to their deaths from abortion every day in America, someone dies in the Sudan every 20 minutes, 24,000 people starve to death every day in the Third World… \u00a0 And this is all drowned out in a “sea of irrelevance.” \u00a0 Can someone please pass me the remote? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The Open Door Community<\/em> publishes a monthly newspaper. \u00a0 In one of the Oct. 2009 articles, Eduard Loring writes: \u00a0 “Indulgence and over-consumption have become the easiest ways to deal with our emptiness. \u00a0 We use food, shopping, drugs, television and consumption in general — to fill the void that is created in the absence of deep meaningful relationships…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue our Georgia On My Mind Tour (Is that original, or what?) \u00a0 We are at the Open Door Community in Atlanta for this phase of the tour, as we continue to look at urban poverty issues. \u00a0 The …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}