This is an observation, as opposed to a question for the forum, in response to a note by R. Wright in another thread. He/she is amazed at the selective sensivity apparent on the forum.

Selective sensitivity is a survival trait. Without some selectivity on processing input, we'd all go mad. An adult of the nineteenth century would never be able to handle the volume of data/information we all deal with daily, and we can only deal with it *selectively*.

That said, I cannot fault your filtering mechanism any more than you can fault mine. Kosovo vs Irag vs Rwanda vs any other of the many, many spots in the world where people mistreat each other (including our own countries). We cannot give all of them our attention all of the time, and individually we decide what is important. My priorities will *never* be your priorities.

I think this also applies to individual reactions to y2k, and especially y2k burnout as experienced by some of the posters here.

Just my .02 worth.

-- Cowardly Lion (cl0001@hotmail.com), April 07, 1999

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C. Lion, Point taken, thank you.

-- R. Wright (blaklodg@aol.com), April 07, 1999.

Good point C.L. ! and now, about that selective INsensitivity.... :-D

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), April 07, 1999.