The worst enemy of truth is half-truth. Decades of programming have overloaded us to the point where we only pay attention to headlines, not the facts (or absence thereof) behind them. The consumatronic farm has bred any curiosity out of modern humans and replaced it with apathy on steroids. As truth becomes diluted by a disgusting cocktail of fake news and entertainment, our relationship with reality comes to an abrupt end.
While many raise the lack of fair and honest news, more coverage is a futile quest as long as media channels are created, sponsored and maintained by necrocapital. We need less exposure, and more critical thinking. Repeated exposure to the truth brings desensitisation, hypernormalisation, conditioning and complacency. The mind prison only becomes stronger, not weaker, the more imagery and information it is exposed to. Facts are nothing but the raw material for assembling new versions of the truth. Our media dystopia has become the industry of dismembered and re-assembled truths: its narratives are made up of actual facts that have been mutilated, redacted and rearranged to present the version which best fits the agenda of its owners.
We may have installed eyes, ears, cameras, satellites and journalists all over Earth’s surface, but we remain utterly blind to the greed choking life to extinction. Truth is synthetic, happiness is manufactured, work is meaningless, and everything is bought and sold by the most absurd concept: money. Capital will take precedence over reality even in the most extreme cases: “We interrupt our colourful coverage of the Global Collapse of industrial civilisation for a very brief Chipotle commercial”.
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George I luv your writing.I just wish you were not so right about our human predicament.Cliff WalkerPresident Timbersmith(250)954-4046www.Timbersmith.ca
I appreciate that Cliff, all the best to you
Always good stuff George!
The focus on Fox is so status quo however. It was the mainstream media covering up the Hunter and Joe story about their nefarious “business” dealings. URI Berliner outlined it in his expose of NPR’s practices. Twitter and FB bent the knee on request from the White House. MSNBC and all the others kept peddling the insanity that Joe was perfectly cognitive. The mainstream media refused to point out how undemocratic Harris’ “appointment” was. I could go on and on like this, with the point being that an argument can easily be made that the lies peddled by Fox have FAR less impact than the lies and cover ups perpetrated by “the other side”.
Keep up the good work! And please keep calling out the insanity and lies coming from the side that claims to be “defending democracy and fighting fascism”, because they are effectively doing the exact opposite.
Yes, you are totally right. There is so much censorship around right now, but it is done quietly, do you know why? because those doing it are ashamed to be found. They are among us, and closer to us than we think
Yes! As an American I never expected to worry about what I said or think. But it is scary partisan here, and the intolerance permeating our culture is truly frightening. I have been disparaging shortcomings on all sides for my entire life, but now I am in a bit of fear of if I point out the lefts censorship and hypocrisy. I worry we are slipping into a Nazi style thought police situation.
Peace.
Human brain has become obsolete. We cannot understand the world we live in. Hence we drown in the ocean of fake news because we cannot tell what is true and what is fake.