{"id":540,"date":"2009-04-08T23:14:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-04-08T23:14:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:14:54","slug":"focusing-on-solutions-no-more-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on solutions – no more news"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realised this evening how to verbalise my own reasons for throwing newspapers in the dustbin, which I’ve struggled with before<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At todays Facelook and Foodcook<\/a>, two of the four speakers specifically advised not reading newspapers, and reasoned it in different ways. But an unconnected point one of them made sparked the connection.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried before, with mixed success, to explain it. But this evening it become clear to me. Attention given to problems exacerbates the problem. Attention given to solutions manifests solutions. Newspapers describe problems, endlessly, and are useless at describing solutions. It’s not that we are going to wallow in ignorance, isolated in our own little enclaves, as a commenter in my previous post put it. The problems will make themselves known – in today’s connected and switched on world that’s hardly the issue. But our energy can be best spent on solutions, not in taking on more problems in the disempowering way that is the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

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