Absurd

Michelle, my lone blog reader, I'm writing in response to your entry on NPR, and I must confess that I am just as much a fan of NPR. Although today I had quite a fright. As I was listening to a panel discussion on the Diane Ream show I slowly came to the realization of whose opinion I was taking for granted - in the worst (I really dislike that word) possible way. Eleanor Clift works as a contributing editor for Newsweek and makes a weekly appearance on the "The McLaughlin Group,". I don't necessarily have a problem with her, but as I listened to the Diane Ream show I took in what I was hearing without assuming any bias on the part of the speaker. I would never do that! I think my love of NPR has blinded me to analyzing and forming a balanced view of not just the news but how I receive the news. I listen to Eleanor Clift on The McLaughlin group and it's blatantly apparent how her opinions contrast against the other participants on the panel, but on NPR this morning she sounded calm and collected and I took everything she said without a thought. Scary.



I'm loosing it and I don't even realize it. Hah, that reminds me of a book, Lost Worlds,that I was browsing through the other day about things that are lost. Of the author's list of things lost he mentions absurdities -



"What absurdities did you commit today? If you know the answer, you are probably wrong. Absurdities are like assumptions: they are the things we do not know we are making. But we can be as certain as death and taxes that we are committing absurdities and making assumptions."



I never even knew there was such a word to describe my daily plight.