{"id":1428,"date":"2015-03-02T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sebersole.wordpress.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:12:28","slug":"are-we-all-add-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebersolemedia.com\/blog\/are-we-all-add-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we all ADD now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black and Blue, or While and Gold? It’s the question that appears to have captivated the\u00a0ever-so-brief attention span of the online world. The more philosophical are asking again the age-old questions; what is the nature of reality and perception?…and, can we ever know for certain what we think we know? Yes I’m talking about #TheDress. And if you haven’t been paying attention, suffice it to say that the “twitterverse” has been embroiled in a heated debate about the real<\/em> color of a dress that was worn to a wedding in Ireland. Here’s just one of the many tweets having a bit of fun with the whole thing.\"dress\"<\/p>\n

Well, that was before the llamas got loose in Arizona<\/a>…which was just briefly\u00a0before Leonard Nimoy passed away<\/a>. We are an easily distracted lot, humanity. One might argue that\u00a0we need a distraction every now and then to give us relief from the pressure and demands of real life.<\/p>\n

But seriously, is this what we’ve come to expect from our media? Was there nothing important going on in the world at the end of last week? Oh yeah, there was. “Jihadi John” was \u00a0identified<\/a>\u00a0as a college grad from West London; Net neutrality was adopted by the FCC (thanks, perhaps, to John Oliver<\/a>); and a Russian politician, and foe of Putin, was executed on a city street.<\/p>\n

But perhaps there is an explanation. According to this article by Mel Robbins at CNN<\/a>,\u00a0“the emotions that make a story go ‘viral’ are not fear and anger — they are awe, laughter and amusement.” Well, there you go. I feel just a little better now about #TheDress and #LlamaDrama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black and Blue, or While and Gold? It’s the question that appears to have captivated the\u00a0ever-so-brief attention span of the online world. The more philosophical are asking again the age-old questions; what is the nature of reality and perception?…and, can we ever know for certain what we think we know? Yes I’m talking about #TheDress. … <\/p>\n

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