In the not-too-distant past, people used to have regular correspondence via the U.S. Postal Service, people got their news from newspapers and magazines, and the only people who were considered your friends were people you actually had a desire to be around. Compared to the age before, these outdated forms of communication and information propagation brought the speed at which people learned things to a whole new level. It was a glorious revolution of people being informed and able to get valuable information to the masses. With the advent of the Internet and the implementation of the 24-hour news networks, the speed at which information was disseminated became nearly infinite. Between school computers, public library computers, free Wi-Fi at nearly every fast food restaurant and coffee shop and at least one television on a news channel in any bar, everyone in America has the means to witness the vast amount of information constantly hurled around. The ease of access to this information is a well-honed double edged sword. On one hand, we have the capability to see and hear about everything going on in our country and in the world. This gives us the opportunity to form our own opinions after synthesizing all the data. On the other hand, we become saturated with information. We become numb to news updates and no longer respond to videos or reports of violence. It becomes too easy for us to accept what people are saying without trying to look through the presenter’s bias. In turn, we too become biased to whatever we hear first. It also makes us lose the ability to focus on one problem for more than two seconds before another newer, fresher, more interesting story takes us by storm. The inability our current culture has to maintain interest in a story for more than a week prevents people from actually seeing the end of a story.  As soon as people get bored with hearing about an injustice or atrocity, they think the problem goes away. Already Kony 2012 has fallen out of public interest and has been replaced by an uproar against publicly charged George Zimmerman, the overzealous and possibly racist community watch volunteer, for shooting Treyvon Martin. This instance illustrates how quick we are to believe the first thing we hear and how easily we get bored with the last thing. Before people heard all the details surrounding the case, their minds were already made up that Zimmerman was without a doubt in the wrong and there was no possible way his actions were justified. Keep in mind, the case has yet to be fully investigated and while the details of the story do seem to point in one direction, it is vital to wait until the full story is known. But of course, we don’t have enough time to wait for all the details. We’re too hungry for a fresh story to keep us interested, and it won’t be long before congressmen dressed in hoodies and the name Treyvon Martin are something that we ask “what was that again?” Before Kony there was SOPA and before SOPA there was Occupy. Before those there was. . .huh, it seems to have slipped my mind. What was I doing again? Oh yeah, I’m outraged at whatever someone tells me to outraged at next!