How do you feel when you know that someone or some network is telling you complete and total lies?
Do you feel accepting of such a situation or are you more inclined to call them out for that which is not so?
I believe that part of the answer to that question lies in whether or not we believe that they are giving us this information with intentional deception in mind or is it being delivered through some layer of innocence or internal delusion that precludes their truly understanding how and why they are communicating things that are not necessarily so.
If we are truly vigilant in our perspective of the world, it stands to reason that we must be continuously on our personal guard against misinformation, which is becoming so proliferated as to make our navigation through distraction into truth that much more complicated.
When you are awake, you are checking many different kinds of sources, you use your critical thinking and you can see the bold-faced lies coming from multiple directions, like Fox News, Newsmax, OAN, Sinclair media, The Epoch Times and other outright lying sources, you have a greater sense of the legalized insanity that has been normalized in our society.
Of equal danger and frustration are the stories that are intentionally omitted or not covered at all for fear of castigating specific revenue verticals that would not wish to be cast in a negative light if specific stories were fully and openly covered in a non biased manner, as in the case of MSNBC, CNN, ABC NBC, CBS and others.
News organizations cover that which is in their best interests. That which feeds their ravenous audience. With our democracy at stake, how could we be any less ravenous?
We are living in a world in which information has massive monetization. As media evolved into newspapers, greedy individuals quickly discovered that a specific audience will wish to engage with specific content, regardless of truth or veracity.
This is quickly becoming the problem of paramount importance in our society, because our continuous need for information drives us to whatever source we believe reputable in order that we might stay on top of what we believe to be the truth.
But when we are equally concerned about the vessels through which we are garnering our individual information, we are lost in a distraction layer that is intentionally in place in order to maintain specific controls over society at large.
When this same behavior manifests in an individual who is desirous of making a desired impression, we are forced to continue to intake information from them with ever increasing layers of doubt and credibility.
These thresholds only aggregate over time so that eventually, everything that comes from a source that has proven itself less than credible is weakened in its own voracity. Using our intellect and our best internal screening processes, we are well served to continue to question the validity and the credibility of the sources that come our way.
Happy Thursday!
Brian Weiner 