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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Rod Rippel via Dialogue <<a href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Fascists and dictators (and now just about everyone) have long understood that<br class="">deviant behavior is encouraged by the fact that the media give it coverage.<br class="">For example it used to be, "Don't write about suicide" because the mere<br class="">mention of suicide might inspire someone to commit suicide in the next few days.<br class="">Now we are flooded with all kinds of deviant inspiration. We live in a time of<br class="">internet, Facebook, Twitter and adultery matchup-services.<br class="">Like the phrase sometimes used in the RS-1 'Freedom Lecture,' "All Is Known,"<br class="">literally! The inundation of 'information' has either swamped us with stress and<br class="">physical reaction or prompted a new level of defensive withdrawal from engaging.<br class="">Scriptural wisdom and "Deciding" goes by the board!<br class="">-----Original Message----- From: steve har via OE<br class="">Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:06 AM<br class="">To: <a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a> ; Order Ecumenical ICA-USA<br class="">Subject: [Oe List ...] Breakfast News Conversations...<br class=""><br class="">Also called scripture/news conversations<br class=""><br class="">You remember them right?<br class="">random bits of recalled news and then a piece of scriptural wisdom<br class="">what to do about it?<br class=""><br class="">These days news like trying to "drink from a fire hose"<br class="">My experience now living in the USfA now rather than Costa Rica and<br class="">listening to USA media is curious.<br class=""><br class="">Feels to me like a case of news culture ADHD where nothing is<br class="">connected to anything except by more and more crisis news events, more<br class="">passionate & positional thinking more economic political and cultural<br class="">and more and more "news journalists" driving to their bank on the<br class="">stream of news.<br class=""><br class="">My friend Jack Gilles, if I quote him right, says ORID conversations<br class="">no longer have a "D" now because it it is all interpretation, everyone<br class="">has an opinion, everyone is a spectator stuck in the stands watching<br class="">an unplayable game.<br class=""><br class="">Now in conversations is no "D" in ORID, no one knows how to Decide or what Do.<br class="">"D" stands for Dumpster or "Don't decide" or "Despair" or just "Done".<br class=""><br class="">Joe Mathews had a paper, I believe, which he called the liberal<br class="">heresy - aybe it was the conservative heresy or the reactionary<br class="">heresy.<br class="">He used some fancy theological terminology like "the immediacy of the<br class="">eschaton" which I never did understand,exactly.<br class="">Anyone remember this paper?<br class=""><br class="">Wondering where IS the scripture part, the wisdom part of the<br class="">breakfast news conversation?<br class=""><br class="">The Christian Science Monitor says THEY are doing two things...As days<br class="">and weeks pass, the media move on to new stories, often neglecting to<br class="">tell the “what’s possible?” stories about how the people and<br class="">communities affected by these tragedies are coping and what they’re<br class="">learning. We hear these types of stories on one-year anniversaries,<br class="">but they’re not an ongoing part of the media’s coverage the way that<br class="">the “what happened?” stories are. A growing body of research is<br class="">confirming what many have long suspected — that a steady diet of<br class="">trauma and disaster triggers stress, fear and trauma in those<br class="">consuming the stories.<br class=""><br class="">What if the news media covered stories of recovery and resilience as<br class="">much as they cover stories about devastation and despair?<br class=""><a href="http://ivoh.org/restorativenarrative/" class="">http://ivoh.org/restorativenarrative/</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Steve<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Steve<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">OE mailing list<br class="">OE@lists.wedgeblade.net<br class="">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net <br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Dialogue mailing list<br class="">Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net<br class="">http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>