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I can not believe

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that there is a human being that does not know about what happened in India over the holiday weekend.

I work with someone who had NO FUCKING IDEA about the massacre in Mumbai and any sort of background on the story.

One of my biggest pet peeves are people who are clueless about the world we live in and the political/social context that shapes it.

I know at times I come off a vapid or self absorbed, but I read up on politics/current events like a mo fo. It just blows my mind that someone who watches TV could have missed the news updates.

Alright, I'm done with my rant. I just had to get that out.

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  1. jenks ·

    yeah, I'm super clueless, and even I knew about this.

    And a guy at work (a rabbi) told me that the rabbi that was killed was a good friend of theirs. :( How awful.

  2. metalpeter ·

    There are some people who don't watch the news or read stuff other then sports because they don't care. Some of it is that they think all those other countries are god forsaken and no good anyways. But then there is the other view that all the news does is show the bad and not the good stories. There is also the view that it is all about money and that is all the news cares about so because of that you get tag lines and nothing in depth. Then some people don't follow the news because all it does is depress them. I will admit all of these are good reasons not to watch it, read it or listen to it. Besides if people talk about things at work then why not just get there take. I won't bring up the fact that maybe the person does follow the news but because of traveling or the holiday didn't see anything about it over that period of time. I know I don't like the news myself but I still expose my self to it anyways to see what I see that is interesting.

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