“There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. The majority take the line of least resistance, preferring to have their thinking done for them; they accept ready-made individual, private doctrines as their own and follow them more or less blindly. Every generation looks upon its own creeds as true and permanent and has a mingled smile of pity and contempt for the prejudices of the past. For two hundred or more generations of our historical past this attitude has been repeated two hundred or more times, and unless we are very careful our children will have the same attitude toward us.”
― Alfred Korzybski
I think that you can argue that the biggest loss that has occurred since that fucker Ronald Reagan is the loss of an independent media.
Lord oh Lord. What a spectacle. What a bunch of self-serving bullshit. The "media outlets" seem to spend the bulk of their time serving up regurgitated bullshit that serve the interests of their corporate masters.
I can't remember the last time I saw someone from the big outlets have an article sent in from a paid staff reporter on the ground. Nope, no one does that shit anymore. They trot out to the suburbs of New York or Washington and hire some ex-official flunkey to be a talking head.
News isn't about reporting what is going on. News is now "control of the narrative". What passes itself off as news now is someone telling you what to think. They are providing you with the right answer, and they feel that you should have to take it.
The world is a complex place. The fallacy of attributing to one cause what is due to many causes permeates the world. By controlling the narrative and limiting the news presented, you are being controlled by those who do not have your best interests at heart.
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