Breaking News — The Fog and the Veil

With the Iran war on one side, the dire predictions from Anthropic on another, and the Artemis II's long-overdue jaunt around the moon on yet another side, we are being inundated with breaking news. A few weeks ago, there would have been a different set of breaking news headlines. And every day there is more breaking news!

In all this, a lot of other important news items, both big and small, don't get the attention they deserve. Breaking news works like the fog. It hides details that are important to us — be they international, national, or even local — that might affect us directly. The fog analogy highlights the unintended consequences of breaking news.

Then there is the other side — the veil. The veil's purpose is to hide. Breaking news is used to bury other inconvenient truths, to distract us from that which is important to us, and to keep us focused on where the powers that be want us to focus.

Both the fog and the veil are equally detrimental to us. That is why it is important that you spend only some of your attention on breaking news and consciously seek out publications that provide in-depth analysis of issues that affect our society.

There are many such publications. You just have to spend some time and look for them. That time you spend will be well worth your while!