I started reading that NYTimes article about how we shouldn't be worrying about ebola, but OMGAWD ...FLU!!!!!
[aaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh]
Not to mention, "...parents have hallucinated a connection between immunizations and autism...."
YOU dickweeds in the media are responsible for the nonsense that ordinary people believe about nutrition and wellness (and a lot of other stuff) -- this point cannot be hammered home enough. Without television, radio, and idiotic periodicals, the most moronic, far-fetched BULLSHIT would not be so ardently believed by modern folks.
Without the constant commercials blatting that you-can-have-it-all-just-take-this-pill, without the lies-repeated-often-enough, without IGNORANT PEOPLE getting delusions-of-grandeur from their fame and popularity, maybe ... just MAYBE a little reason might creep into the conversation.
Without pharmaceutical companies making themselves responsible for what medical-schools teach -- without food processing giants bribing dieticians into saying that toxins are an important part of a balanced diet (otherwise you feel DEPRIVED, don'cha-know) -- without specialists generalizing outside their spheres of expertise -- without self-aggrandizing, greedy egotists taking hold of the wheel of society, maybe our ships of state wouldn't be steering for the rocks as they are....
If it weren't for the sound-byte and its written equivalent, the astounding stupidity of the opinion-makers wouldn't be able to hide quite so well, and perhaps those twits wouldn't have the cachet that they do. It's ironic that our modern hand-held technology might end up being the tools allowing the truth to "out" -- like Paul Harvey and his "The Rest of the Story."
Without the camera set up by that heroic bartender, the 47% would probably only have learned too late about the contempt in which they were held by a certain self-righteous "public servant." Personal- and dashboard-cams force the police to behave the way they should. Recording devices reveal the WHOLE speech as well as the out-takes, which the Evening News "protects" us from. It's getting harder for people to keep their dirty little secrets.
...Which is a damned good thing, seeing how so very MANY dirty little secrets there are out there. One of the biggest is how the world of journalism has betrayed the trust of society, and TOTALLY fucked up their job.
Which came first, the conspiracy or the conspiracy theorist or those labeling people conspiracy theorists? (if I must be part of one of the three, I say I'm #2, and #1 and #3 are the same.) (LOL)
ReplyDeletep.s. I'm in the process of divesting myself of Google. I see some Blogspot bloggers can allow comments that sign in as name/url....you aren't one of them. After I give up Google, that will be the only way I can comment... (thanks.)
:-) i'm convinced that the conspiracy came first, and when people started pointing fingers, THEN the conspirators tried to defend their behavior by pointing fingers back. But i think we've gone way beyond conspiracy here -- we no longer live in a democracy-like republic, it's an oligarchy now. One of the safeguards, a free press, has become dominated by a handful of rich men publishing only what will serve their purposes. The rest of the media does its best to help camouflage issues, and provide scapegoats and other illusions to redirect our ire. :-( If i didn't have grandchildren, i wouldn't get so angry and heartsick about it all....
Delete...and i'll look into that "comment as" setting -- i've changed very little here since i first set the place up! ;-)
DeleteAs the saying goes .....this world at present doesn't know whether it's on its head or its heels. Which doesn't help us, the public, that have to do our best to live in it as wisely as possible.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
that's for sure! ...and I blame some of the insanity and anti-social behavior on carb-eating. ;-)
DeleteAll fear, all the time...and now a word from our sponsors.
ReplyDelete:-D isn't Jim Wright GREAT?
DeleteIndividual people often want to help and to bring good to others. It disappears when people are the part of a corporation. After living in a socialistic economy till it disintegrated, I can't see capitalistic forces as complitely evil ones - without corporations looking for a profit everything just turns into a chaos like a body of the person who takes 10 pills to make sure every possible marker of health is within recommended range . I see corporations being like wolves in a ranchers country - they do what is natural for them without thoughts of a public good, but their existence normalizes environment at the price of some cattle being eaten and some ranchers pissed-off. Our goal is not to be eaten, not to be caught on the hook of business who pretend to be a mouthpiece of public interests, but only doing what is natural for them - turning a profit because their job is doing that, not to be the paragons of a national conscience.
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely a valuable resource for ideas on this subject, Galina! I don't decry capitalism as such -- my problem is with the current system in which oligarchy has stolen America from its own people.
DeleteBut my point HERE is how journalism is NOT ONLY no longer serving the purpose which caused it to be protected under the USA Constitution, it's actively causing a great deal of harm. Parents would never have decided that vaccination is problematic if these corrupt sources had not TRUMPETED the conclusions of one "study" that stated it was. ...Then this fucktard accuses them of "hallucinating" a connection??? Despite my rich collection of synonyms for douchebaggery, i know no terms strong enough to express my disgust.
I hope you were not sarcastic. I didn't want to tell you it was not reasonable to feel outraged. Corporations try to feed us some bs, but we are pushing back refusing to swallow.
Deleteno, that wasn't it -- I was trying to express my disgust about the press sneering at the more innocent among us, for believing what the media itself promotes. it's very much like fat people being blamed for following the USDA's own guidelines....
DeleteI am afraid the nature of press has changed as it became the property of big corporations. There are still journalists who risk everything in order to bringing truth to the public, but it is more likely an exception. I doubt most newspapers are serving any noble purpose at the moment, more likely they try to attract attention of readers in order to be a desirable place for potential sponsors. Subscriptions used to be the foundation of a media budget, not any longer.
ReplyDeletevery true!
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