...doesn't exist. It hasn't for awhile. It comes as no epiphany while I battle a number of addictions, amongst them being the internet - that there is no news. "Terror in England...Stockholm...Wherever...." is not news. "Snack-Shaming" is not news. Give me news. I need news. This is my addiction. Lethbridge, an abundance of people fornicating in outdoor spaces. Not news. Salacious, but not news.
"Jian Gomeshi launches new podcast", "Shootings in California", "Drug bust in ...", "Stabbing in ...", "Iceberg off Canada..."
YouTube, I've seen everything of interest, it's pandering to my "Confirmation Bias", showing me videos that tell me Trump is wrong or a lunatic, or that the Gold is definitely out there, what it's not doing is showing me interesting new content, refresh it's recommendations a dozen times in a row, there's nothing to watch...
...and it seems to be giving up, or because it's AI has grown lazy, now it's cute animal and pet videos, parent videos, self improvement videos, time wasters, wasting, wasting...
It reminds me of a video game, wherein the game staggers the rewards at just the right interval to keep you engaged, interested, only as of late, the more I leave the internet, the more I find that nothing's new, it's the same news over and over again, formulaic, banal, yet still I click and search onward for fear that I've missed some small piece of information that will give me my epiphany, my "ah-ha" of understanding, and everything will make sense...
I've become so well read on a hundred different irrelevant subjects that I can remember none of them, mixing up facts from a hundred different articles, mixing chronologies, quotes, politics, it's the full-on blender of ideas that results in nothing but thinly processed mush and gruel.
There's no denying, I'm an addict needing his fix, and like any addict I need more, crave more, there's nothing that surprises me, engages me, anymore, "Nuclear Missiles strike the US..." gets a "Meh" and a quick scan, like a lot of people I suspect I've grown indifferent to this whole news thing. I've been habituated to the larger bar of world-wars and genocides, it's time, really, to turn off the internet and get busy with life...