Edwin Schlossberg makes an interesting observation that is one of those "shifting of the tectonic plates" kind of changes that impact the way we live life. He said, "People still knew more about local events than they did about national and world events until 1941 when President Roosevelt told everyone about the attack on Pearl Harbor." We now know more about what is happening half-way around the world than we do about our next-door neighbor.
We're like the proverbial fish in the fishbowl. We're so accustomed to CNN that we don't realize what a different world we live in than the one that existed 50 years ago.
News used to travel at the speed of boats and horses. England didn't find out that America declared Independence until weeks later! We now live in a "speed of light" world. The question is this: how has this shift from local to global focus impacted the psyche and soul of America?