Peace: you won’t find it in the headlines.
I ended up on one of those political blogs I used to frequent as a candidate. I am reminded how easily we get sucked into arguments and conversations that take us nowhere.
During an interview with a reporter at KEZI the other day I was asked about the Eugene Downtown Mall. It’s a debate that’s been going on the entire time I’ve lived in this community.
The issues discussed in the media and on these political websites have value but do they have much relevance, really?
I wonder sometimes if people just talk to talk never meaning to really come to a conclusion or solution. It feels like the more we talk the more divided we become and the vicious circle grows larger and the divide deeper.
My answer to the Eugene Mall question went something like this: Perhaps the headlines and issues the city and media determine to be relevant really aren’t to most people. I think if you asked someone in Eugene what the top story is in his or her life the Mall would not stand out one bit.
The main story might be their job, their future, their kids’ future or their heath insurance, not the Mall.
I think that’s the problem with some of these political blogs too. The issues they discuss can be important but is anyone really looking for solutions or just a place to push their agenda. I look at the answers and remember throwing out my two-cents and find it sounds like a brag fest or a “who’s got the most information or the biggest one.”
As I pried my fingers away from the keyboard and my mind away from the conversation I remembered something someone told me after the campaign. They said, “Don’t allow anyone to rob you of your Peace.”
I guess that’s why I don’t hang out on those sites anymore and I pay very little attention to the headlines or the news.
Peace.
Now, that’s something worth talking about.
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The words of a recovering newsperson. I am with ya. Better to be just to a street corner storyteller (coffee shop gypsy/ guru). You get better and more accurate news from them after all anyway.
Rick, I have similar feelings about political issues. The most dividing issues tend to feel the most important to people because they believe them to be timely, being mainstream, but rather the timely issues are the ones tacitly agreed upon by the parties.