Week 2: Trivialized

During our last class we discussed the trivialization that occurs in our modern day public sphere. For this post I will attempt to offer a Modern perspective to issues we touched upon. The human brain is incredibly good at storing information. The problem however is that is is not very good at prioritizing information. Pieces of information that come in are given priority by the emotions associated with them. The problem with this is that emotions are not rational and while useful at times they do not offer consistency in anything. With this being the state of the human brain it would make sense that the primary information, we as humans take in, needs to be vital to us as human beings. It is for this reason that I argue that the trivialization of the public sphere is a bad thing. We take vast amounts of information in on a regular basis. Every time we turn on a tv, even for just a local news program, we consume more than 1 gigabyte of information. On top of the space issue, the brain then has to sort through the information it hast just received to try and sort it. However it is easily overwhelmed by this mass consumption of data on a regular basis and often gets overloaded. This is why the news needs to be about issues that are important to the well being of the community, the country, and all of humanity. Focusing on useless information about the latest fads, or recent scandals, or anything that does not serve to promote the intelligence of the human race should not be given priority.