A common theme that I think we all noticed in our habits involving the news was that we don’t expose ourselves to enough news. Even if we are inevitably exposed to some amount of news without really trying, overall most of us don‘t search out the news. There were a couple of people that made an effort to stay in the loop by watching, reading, or otherwise getting the news.
Many of us appeared to have a somewhat guilty feeling for not keeping up to date with what is going on in the world, yet don’t seem to be doing much to improve our knowledge of current events and important happenings in the world today. Especially with being our age, just starting college, trying to be responsible, and making an attempt to appear intelligent in conversation, there is a lot of pressure to keep up with the news and know about what is happening in the world, given that it is rather important to our society. In my opinion, we might sort of feel like, as young adults and newly independent individuals, we have a responsibility to society to care about what is happening, whether we really do care or not. It is increasingly easy to become engrossed in your own life and what is happening in the small sphere of society that you interact with. Therefore taking time away from this social sphere we surround ourselves with simply to hear about news that may seemingly not effect you just doesn’t always seem worthwhile or necessary.
The lack of motivation some of us have to seek out the news plays into Hedges’ thoughts on how the internet is effecting our intellect. These days it sort of seems that there is just generally not much inspiration, mostly in younger generations, to take time from our daily routines to keep up and hear about what is going on all over the world and keep up to date with the news.
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