"Looking for Atlantis"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/14/tech-atlantis-spain.html

I found this new in the media quite intriguing. I secretly still hope Atlantis isn't for sure found, and remains a mystery forever, but it could be a huge discovery! Still, I find it hard to believe that news like this is being covered while there are suffering and dying people in Japan. The world often disappoints me in ways such as this. It seems that people care more about fables than their own kind. Which, I must admit, makes sense: it's probably easier to escape into fantasy and mystery than to open your eyes and face the world today and how it is falling apart.

I find that often in the media that news focusses on such trivial things as this. The media does cover the disaster in Japan, but I feel as though tragedies such as this are easily forgotten, because the media and news are constant. Still, as humans, our role in the media is and will always remain to be to consume. Though I feel as if within the past ten years, this consumption has grown. We are now paying more attention to the media and celebrities and movies and artists more than we ever do to the things that do, or should, matter in life- the humans in our life, that we see every day, not the stars "surrounding" it.

Through the overconsumption of media products, people are wasting their time on movies, tv, and Internet-based collectives such as Facebook and Twitter instead of using their little time they have on "more important things". I would consider these to be things such as our friends and family, and the real human beings in our life that we can talk to, laugh with, and feel pain with. I believe a real experience such as that is more critical to our survival and sanity as people than a fake experience with the media. Still, we see people every day searching for this "Atlantis" - this perfection in life simulated by the media, believing that if they surround themselves with the media, change themselves to fit it, they will achieve happiness.