I used to read newspapers and the internet news regularly, but I’ve found myself lately completely and utterly turned off by it all.

Politics used to be fairly interesting, and I use that word “interesting” with extreme caution and with many caveats that I won’t specify here. Now, all the politicians seem the same – same ideas, same dull grey-suited dullards with hidden perversions. Maybe they always were and I finally opened my eyes … I don’t know. If a car bomb goes off in the Middle East now, I can’t be bothered to go past a couple of paragraphs because it’s like groundhog day where you’ve seen it all before … many, many times.

A young girl gets snatched, or murdered and it all seems so … normal.

The only thing quite different in the world news today that is different from the norm is the Michael Jackon case. I don’t think anyone can actually offer a valid opinion on that at the moment – as we simply don’t know. The one thing I do know is that case and all that surrounds it, is so out of the ordinary that it takes the “everything is so repetitive” argument and moves it too far – such that it’s simply not believable. Just the guy’s freakish face gives me the shivers.

Is it the after effects of the 9/11 attacks? Perhaps the world-changing event was so shocking that we’re now immune to “normal” carnage and evil.

So what’s going on? Is the world changing or am I just getting old(er). Answers on a postcard (in big letters please) to InvisibleVoices retirement home in Miami.