In this season of love and charity I am often given nightmares by the news. Perhaps because of the violent contrast between the ideal and the real, or perhaps because sensationalized news sells better than other stories.
I am a cynic when it comes to any kind of so-called, “news.” I know much of it is produced to sway unthinking people to a particular viewpoint.
Good, bad, or indifferent, almost everyone has a pet point and they will go to all sorts of unimaginable, except they are imagined, lengths to make their pet the star of the moment.
A certain amount of bad press is obviously better than no press and the best way to counteract ugly truth seems to be to inundate the world with vague promises and lots of hype after some unintentional reveal.
The underlying truth behind it all is what gives me the nightmares. That people are willing to be duped into believing the so-called solutions to today’s perceived problems are even acceptable goes beyond my understanding.
I have no idea how many people, organizations, charities, religions, schools, whatever have an agenda based first on money (and justified because without that they would fold?) and secondly power, or their need to impose their beliefs on as many people as possible (to the exclusion of an unbelievable number of other people.)
Sacrificial lambs fall like rain from the sky so that this can continue and everyone just covers their heads with big smiles as they continue on, nodding and shaking hands.
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