Thx Jeff. A voice in the wilderness, I fear. For some reason that I can't wrap my remaining brain cell around, Americans (people in general?) insist on being afraid of "crime", whether it exists or not. Be afraid, be very afraid.
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
This tendency to create pointless, but worrying rankings is just standard, lazy, journalism. We need to stop viewing media as informative - they ARE entertainment... Selling eyeballs to advertisers.
Thx Jeff. A voice in the wilderness, I fear. For some reason that I can't wrap my remaining brain cell around, Americans (people in general?) insist on being afraid of "crime", whether it exists or not. Be afraid, be very afraid.
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym
This tendency to create pointless, but worrying rankings is just standard, lazy, journalism. We need to stop viewing media as informative - they ARE entertainment... Selling eyeballs to advertisers.
Economists wrangling data to fit their needs and then being overconfident about the specificity and accuracy of the results!? Crazy!
Jeff thanks again for the great work you do!