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Back to the streets – pedestrian perspective

Posted By: The Abstract Analyst
Filed Under: Opinion on February 8, 2010

As a native and resident New Yorker.  There are a few truths I’ve lived by.  Don’t stop in the middle of a busy street for anything less than an emergency.  However poorly run, the trains are the fastest mode of transportation to transverse the city from north to south (and in some points east to west.  And at one point we were some of the most informed people in the world.  I say were, cause I notice something troubling while walking quickly and riding the train.  People aren’t reading…anything.  I see more and more iPods, and head phones plugged in, and fewer and fewer people with books, news paper or even magazines.  The occasional e-reader pops up, but where are the books.  Considering music lacks message, the news media went from reporting the facts to becoming entertainment & people are becoming more isolated this makes me wonder whether and how folks are getting informed.

This is concerning for obvious reasons, but one in particular really has me worried.  The Highest court in the land recently overturned a decision limiting corporate spending and treating companies as individuals with regards to campaign financing. This unto itself has huge ramifications, but this isn’t about that.  The issue at hand is the fact that corporate spending will impact elections and the information disseminated.  The same people not reading & becoming informed from multiple sources will not have their information fed to them by money feed to candidates from…. corporations.

Ripping the Supreme Court

-Abstract Analyst…

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