Opinion/Editorial
YOU CAN BE RIGHT AND YOU CAN BE ALONE
The world is in the most critical informational transition of all time. ‘News’ reaches more people and at a much faster speed than ever before. In fact, with the spread of television hardware around the world in mass, we may confidently state that sixty percent of the earth’s population may be reached within 48 hours on any given day at any given time. Accuracy. The single word that is the foundation for our informational transition. The world is discovering that most of the ‘news’ it receives is not accurate. That discovery was made years ago, but things have changed dramatically from those days. The change is based upon the general discovery that the inaccuracy of reporting and presenting of all news stories is deliberate.
With this conclusion being reinforced on an hourly if not daily basis our perception of common survival has been thrown into disarray. If we cannot proceed with known facts to guide us, then how do we proceed in any kind of safety at all? This question is plaguing mankind, although it is doing so with almost no discussion or reporting at all.
The revelations with respect to Osama’s demise illustrate how the ‘facts’ of this story are no longer important, as the facts change every day. What has become important is another example of the verification our population is receiving about the delivery of deliberate inaccuracies. There is no way that the story of what happened to Osama on the day of his death can be changed every day (five times now) unless it is by deliberation.
The prevarications by people in extremely high places over the universally public medium of television about Osama’s death have even called the events of 9/11 back into question. What can we believe? What can we get away with believing? What do we want to believe? And how do we want to survive?
We cannot survive alone anymore if we ever could. We are a dominant species whose hugely successful social strategy has allowed us to take over the planet. All life on earth is subject to our control. But our control is also controlled by a very small minority of that same species. And the deliberate inaccuracy of news is one of those tiny minorities’ most aggressively powerful tools. It is not to be taken lightly. To oppose the inaccuracies is to place oneself against the will of those ‘rulers’ of our culture, and the world we live in.
We cannot live alone. But we cannot comfortably input inaccurate data and make it work for us in such a way that we experience bliss. We can function through it however, modifying our belief system in order to accommodate enough of the inaccuracies to appear socially acceptable. The Kennedy assassinations, Oklahoma, 9/11, Osama’s death. None of those events happened as we have been led to believe. We can pursue an almost never-ending supply of evidence to support that conclusion, or we can accept the reported versions given to us on national television.
Fifteen years ago, a beautiful woman sat across from me in a coffee shop with her best friend, I interrupted her twice to change what she had said, because it was so blatantly wrong. After the second correction she turned one ‘talon’ on her right hand to point at me. “Strauss, you can be right, and you can be alone,” she said, speaking straight across the short distance with a truth it took me some tie to internalize.
About our social interactions today, what with the political parties so far apart and so much other questionable stuff happening. The woman was so very correct. We can be right, and we can be alone. Is that what we are willing to settle for?
