Rather, it's an answer to the question: In what city with a decent infrastructure and nice places to shop are business people least likely to get confronted with the ugly, distracting realities of war or violence?
The Mercer survey isn't so much telling you about the actual quality of living for average people, it's an answer to the question: In what city with a decent infrastructure and nice places to shop are business people least likely to get confronted with the ugly, distracting realities of war or violence?
So instead of celebrating the achievement of the Minnesota Gophers hockey team, I have been distracted by reality.
It's also obvious that a predicted anti-Starr backlash is just "spinlash," part of an endless round of invention intended to distract from reality.
During this season of cheer, it seems that as much as we try and escape the long, dark and cold days of winter that bright lights and sugary sweets just can't distract from reality and the sometimes harsh truth of our human condition.
But in reality, distracting ourselves from something that is legitimately upsetting, can lead us to tune out and cut off from understanding the situation at hand, weakening our ability to effectively manage it.
Anyway, listen: Lots of people spend much time obsessing like a dog for the money and pretty girls but the trick is to work out why you're distracting yourself from reality, and then move forward from there.
Entertainment can sometimes be about distracting from the harsh realities of the world but I say, for me, I want you to feel good, I want you to slip away from all that, but I also want to hold the mirror up to society and perhaps make you think a little bit.
"The Congress," with its view of a world surfeited by imagination and distracted from its realities, presents entertainment as a psychotropic palliative for real-world woes, and suggests that the resources and the brain power devoted to creating entertainment would be better used in search of a cure for cancer or other disorders.
Pop that turns over reality and then explores the resultant new dynamic, as opposed to pop that assembles more and more attractive, distracting layers of synthesised reality.
These notes act like a reset button, he says, lassoing your mind back to reality and distracting you from negative thoughts.
