This is actually interesting. Are you telling me, that in Belgium you have no newspaper stands with headlines on them in stores and on the street.
First off, I'm Dutch which makes me a native to The Netherlands, not Belgium, and no, not particularly.
There are no radio channels on in any stores or malls?
Yes, but they play exclusively pop-music.
No televisions in any bars you frequent?
None. IMO in a bar, you don't need TV if you've got beer and company.
And no one you know has mentioned this even in passing.
No they haven't actually. I guess there's not much to it but "it's horrible" "yes indeed".
the reason people assume your expending effort to not find out things like this is that they are virtually everywhere. People talk about them, every paper is full of it, headlines are screaming, radio channels beaming, rescue collection in full blow in most cities. But somehow, you evade it all? Either you're only very dimly aware of your surroundings, or you need to get out more.
Well here's the thing, I don't watch any TV myself. I don't listen to the radio because the gross of it is horrible local pop-music which I personally can't stand for the most part. Newspapers here aren't sold on the street as far as I'm aware, not like I see it portrayed in films at least. And I have not seen a single effort where I'm from to aid these people.
Maybe the people I hang out with don't give a hoot, maybe it's abnormal to shut off the all-powerful advertising machine known as popular media, maybe I've accidentally avoided all the circuits where this news propagates and maybe, just maybe, I don't get to see any of this because I honestly don't really care for it. I mean, what's the use of me knowing thousands of people died somewhere off where I can't help them? How are they better off with me knowing about that? How does it help me that I'm aware of their pain and suffering? Will it help me be a better person to those around me?
I don't know man. The more I spend time thinking about this, the more I'm seeing that this is a pretty good position to be in.
Also, on a thinly related note, I'm pissed off that I'm not pissed off regularly enough to visit this thread as much as I'd like, being that it's pretty interesting. And I'm not even that pissed off about that, more like vaguely displeased.
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