June 23rd- Anders

I come from the land of clouds, the land of taught skin, of serious faces and passive characters, its almost July and I am looking at white sky- 5 more hours in this US of A.

Waiting to move across an ocean I turned to the tv to watch some hours drip away, my mind is too slow right now to read so I leave my books alone until I have hours of sitting in a chair floating above the ground, i know of the phenomenon called "lift" but sitting in the sky moving at hundreds of miles an hour still makes no sense, and is what i call "modern magic."

The tv is talking to me, painted faces in prepped places- fox news, msnbc, cnn; all large corporations and they all share the same stories; how is it that hundreds of professionals can be paid high salaries and all they can do is babble about some governor going on a hike without telling everyone? I am watching three grown men all talk at the same time and push talking points that are empty and meaningless, who listens to this stuff and takes it seriously?, forming opinions of a governor hundreds of miles away and his decision to go on a hike without maintaining full contact- there are real pressing matters occurring, but according to the largest news corporations in the USA we should be focusing on this governor and his hiking decisions.

I remember when Carl Rove was going on trial for doing a lot of stuff that has not been talked about, news corporations mainly talked about his trial instead of why he was going to trial, during this time Terry Shivo was the talk of the news world and everyone was paused waiting for what would happen to Terry- Terry had been in a coma for a very long time and the parents wanted her to sit like a vegetable for many more years and her husband just wanted to move on. Protesters gathered around her hospital to keep her alive, one man even rushed the guards and tried to make it to Terry to give her a cup of water to drink, Terry Shivo had been in a coma for 15 years and had been taking food and water through a tube for over a decade, the man was going to pour water in Terry's mouth since she had been disconnected from the feeding tubes to allow a natural death, terry had not takıng lıquıd through her mouth for a decade. Karl Rove was on trial but the world was watching Terry Shivo.

Enough of Americans watch the news to keep these companies in businesses, news corporations only do what is profitable and apparently talking about nothing and gossip (just watch Nancy Grace) is what sells. Who are we as a nation and why does our culture appear to be a circus? Newscasters once talked like respectable citizens shedding light on important topics, now they act like clowns trying to distract us like we are bulls in a bullfight- don't see the face of the man that just rode you while he runs off to the safety gates.

This is why i do not watch tv seriously, it is good for education but i refuse to be apart of this part of our culture. It is time for not acting like our parents, their society failed on the whole and the lessons are easy for some to see, but many are unable to see themselves so they continue to plod along whining about the results of their beliefs. Stop watching the fake news, start researching current events.