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Speaking of selling news, if media headlines is a good indication of what sells best, these must be unbeatable hot topics: dissapearance (or "mysterious" deaths) of Caucasian females or boy-scouts; another verbal slipup of a progressive politician; fundrasing records of politicians; legal problems of celebrities; and such.

Regarding potentially dangerous problems, say, global warming, the most you can read are excuses to ignore them. In particular, there is not much in the media that you can read about the bee problem. When the media - perhaps fully controlled by narrow minded interests of minimum industrial accountability, I am just guessing - does not provide any reasonably concerned framework to discuss environmental problems, you get to read running-scared punks like me (haha).

The mystery will be solve shortly.

Firstly, there are different levels of "solving". You may find out how the problem arrises, or how it works, but you may have little clue how to solve it with widely acceptable means.

Secondly, this particular mystery might be solved soon, but maybe not soon enough. I am skeptical that we will eventually solve every problem we came accross with our modern headlong enterprising adventure. We are at the stage when we make more problems than we solve.  

by das monde on Thu Mar 29th, 2007 at 10:38:59 PM EST
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We are at the stage when we make more problems than we solve.

To put this another way, we're reaching the limits of our ability to manage the level of complexity we've created.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Mar 29th, 2007 at 11:18:02 PM EST
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In some ways I can't but agree.  Oddly, tho', many problems we're seeing (if one has the eyes) in the bio-sphere are the result of a reduction in Complexity.  
by ATinNM on Thu Mar 29th, 2007 at 11:51:30 PM EST
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We do not even make a conscious effort to manage the complexity we are generating. We are just minding each own buisiness, piously believing that Free Market will solve everything.

Iraq's war is a typical example of the modern approach - you do "what you have to do", and then discover the next level of mess.

by das monde on Fri Mar 30th, 2007 at 12:03:30 AM EST
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