[-empyre-] the act of forgetting

[Joel Tauber]

Although we are all bombarded by seemingly endless amounts of imagery and
“news”, I am convinced that we are also all suffering from information
deprivation, and in a multiplicity of ways.  While media conglomerates and
government powers shield information from us continually – and spin the
information that we are being fed – I think we are also all guilty of
collectively forgetting our histories.  Information is ignored even when we
have access to it.   Certain things are just too difficult to face.  Government
handouts, unregulated corporations, corporate takeovers of the media and of
the government, industry’s devastation of the environment…  These are very
old stories.  Why should we be surprised by these things when they continue
to happen?  How can we continue to allow them to occur?

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Joel Tauber

http://www.joeltauber.com/pumping.html
joeltauber at gmail.com
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