Hey classmates,
For the transcendentalist essay assignment, I thought of using Thoreau's quote "to a philosopher, all news, as it is called, is gossip", to talk about the state of today's news and media, and how it is rarely relevent to our lives. Instead, most news channels and sources tend to show a natural bias toward one side of the other, and sometimes fail to give us the "full story". We get caught up in the news of the day, and fail to live our lives in the present. The news becomes a distraction, a detail that prevents us from "simplifying" our lives. News becomes the same every day, some bomb went off in Libya, a drunk driver killed 3 people in a head on collision, repeat, repeat, repeat. We forget what real news is, fail to experience things first hand, and become numb to reality while getting caught up in the news and gossip of everything else but ourselves. We need to figure things out to ourselves, make up our own minds about the news and what it tells us, and find the full story to uncover the truth, instead of taking it second hand.
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