Hip Hop is a diverse music form with roots in R&B, jazz and poetry. It really is one of the great artisitc exports of the USA. Sadly, very little good hip hop is heard by the overwhelming majority of people, even by those who claim to be into it. The music industry bombards the public with 'hip pop' stars and chromed out idiots with even dumber girls around them. Most people's experience of hip hop is limited. It doesn't have to be that way. Expand your horizons and defy the marketing blitz krieg. Explore. Start that exploration with some Mos Def. Lyrically, he's one of the most gifted rappers out there and his message is far more complex and interesting than bitches, bling, cars , guns and the other silly stuff that most hip hop obsesses over. Enjoy.
Jerry Seinfeld: It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Awareness is and should be an important part of life, but in the modern era, finding reliable and pertinent news information quickly, despite the myriad of sources, can be very difficult. In the 21st century , we now know there is no such thing as objective news, so the best one can do is seek for a kind of intersubjectivity that allows one to develop one's own subjectivity in the hope of fostering a kind of refined or cultivated objective perspective that appreciates from whence differing opinions came from. Marcus Aurelius said, "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." This intersubjectivity can only be achieved via a plethora of news sources from a diversity of backgrounds and cultures. Unfortunately, that is very time consuming. I tend to check these services as I can: CNN International BBC World Service The Week The Economist NYTimes WSJ euronews Bloomberg FT The Guardian NPR Le Monde ...
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