A short trip through the real world

[Cyrano]

I was out in Los Angeles this week and while heading home out of LAX, I didn’t see anyone wearing a hazmat suit or a surgical mask. Nor did I see anyone frantically looking about to see if someone from ISIS was preparing to pounce on them and behead them. It’s possible I passed people from six continents, but I saw no one who was (visibly) in a panicked frenzy over Ebola or terrorism.

It was good to spend a few days away from the media’s noise/fear/propaganda machine. And it was especially nice to escape from the never ending political smear commercials straight out of rancid sewers.

I should also mention I didn’t take along a laptop. And that means I didn’t get to read about the world’s ills, or anyone’s opinion of the world’s ills. (I haven’t yet caved in to a smart phone. I use my old cell.) I guess it was an “ignorance is bliss” week.

In short, it was a healthy trip through the real world. On the other hand, it may have been an escape from the real world. Either way, I feel an enhancement to my well being and my grey matter is still doing a happy dance.

[seveneyes]

1. LA is real world?

Maybe in some dystopian novel.

[Cyrano]

2. Well, if you can manage to

skirt around most of the traffic jams, and spend a couple of evenings smoking some legal "medications," it ain't all that bad.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The real world is the world created by the media, where have you been, in LA La land?

There is a political game afoot, an election is nigh, Fearbola is king in the media world.

[Initech]

10. We don't have any Senate or Congressional districts up for grabs here.

Most of the elections in Los Angeles and Orange County are local elections, and of course the state proposition system are what's at stake. So things are much saner here than the rest of the country.

[Scuba]

4. Well ...

[Cyrano]

5. Exactly. This toon needs it's own thread with a

headline something like Liberal's Current Dilemma.

[world wide wally]

6. Do news stations in other 1st world countries actually compete for ratings like in the U.S.?

Or, do they just put it out there?

[Initech]

11. How about:

DAMN - Delusional, Authoritarian, Mass-hysteria "News"
NTUL - News (Term Used Loosely)

[niyad]

8. good for you!! I keep thinking of "GIGO"-- it cannot be good for our psyches to constantly inundate

ourselves with all the crap and pablum and nonsense of the 24-hour noise machine. sometimes, we just have to take a break.

[mountain grammy]

9. Your post got me thinking about a drive up into Rocky Mtn Natl Park

It's a beautiful, cloudless October day and that up there is the "real world." My gray matter needs a happy dance.