Good morning world! A couple days ago, I stumbled upon the Pew Polls and discovered something amazing: most Americans are quite similar in the unique diversity of their beliefs. We’re all snowflakes! The beauty is that in a collective way, through the binary voting system, polarity of majority views keeps pushing us toward more freedoms and more compassion. Collectively speaking.
Our conservative/liberal system allows a polar push toward progress on difficult issues. But underlying those issues, 99 percent of Americans wants freedom, compassion and safety for our society.
But when we forget we have one heart, and end up hitching ourselves to the left or right mainstream media, we will be victim of the notion that roughly half the people in our country are pure evil. Unless a person has hours of time to research, to make sure they are receiving correct information about their environment, they will be misled by our journalists, who invariably have lost most pretense of objective journalism.
Until the 2016 election, I had a totally naive view that our major news outlets will at least tell the truth about basic facts of events that occur. But recent events I could not turn a blind eye to have led me to realize just how willing contemporary journalists have become to bend the truth, through lies of omission or commission. I literary heard a journalist, whom I’ve previously quite respected, speak the following words recently in regard to the ‘changing’ definition of ‘violence.’ He said, when it comes to that line, ‘the ends justifies the means.’ This was in response to criticisms that journalists have recently been willing to overlook rioting and looting that ends in their reporting, or broadcast the rioting and looting, but call it ‘mostly peaceful.’ Now that language is so rapidly changing to fit the narrative of the political party with which a media outlet is affiliated, i feel ethically obligated to start spending some amount of time each day to figure out the ‘true’ story of any given event, and try to reach as many people who may be pursuing the same goals, so that we can together build an alliance to work toward building a better future. How can we do this if we are depending if distorted representations of reality to show us the world?
Tales from the Little Shed 