Opinion/Editorial
A REASON TO BELIEVE
“If I listened long enough to you, I’d find a reason to believe that it’s all true.” Rod Stewart’s lyrics are so applicable to what we experience in life today. We make our way through the mundane chores, one after another, that we have come to know as an active part of our lives. Our chores include our job or career (if the job is a good-paying one), finding food and cooking it, making our shelter safe and viable, transporting ourselves around with all the complexity of that, and finally, our social interactions, from family to friends and more.
While we went our way through every day and night, we are bombarded by voices and images seeking to impose an artifice of reality over reality itself. This new phenomenon is one so fresh that our genetic code has no protections built in to guard us from harm. We have been on the planet, very slowly evolving, for some three million years or more. Still, we’ve never encountered this kind of new guiding influence, which can spell great success for the transmission of our genetic material or can kill us all, as a species, in a geologic instant.
We are being given a ‘reason to believe,’ and when believing, we are becoming part of a pre-conceived package intended to support the success strategies of others; unseen, unknown, and deliberately kept from our primary reservoir of knowledge. Who owns NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, Syfy, Bravo, History, A&E, and many of the other channels we watch?
General Electric Corporation, for one. Yes, the company that builds much of our national defense equipment. Why should such a directed, aggressive, and skewed company be able to control so much of what we see and hear? Mitt Romney was running for the presidency of the United States. His principal company, Bain Capital, owns Clear Channel, which controls more than fifty percent of all radio broadcasts in this country. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck came to us courtesy of Mitt Romney. Why should this be? How can we have any objectivity at all presented to us? We cannot. We are not.
We are all being given a reason to believe, and we are falling for it due to the simple fact that we cannot adjust our input systems fast enough to defend against this assault. Something too new, too overwhelming, and too graphically ‘real’ happened because of a technology none of us could predict. Consequently, very few humans are positioning themselves to be the only determiners of all this species’ success and/or failure. To our chore list, something we do not discuss has been added and never appears on any of these corporate-owned delivery systems.
We have been given the chore of genuflection, which the old Japanese Samurai called kowtowing. We are presented with something, such as the 911 and the Kennedy assassinations, and we are basically fed by facts that lead us to conclusions arrived at by others well beforehand. We are given a reason to believe, and we do so, in genuflection or in kowtow to the unseen powers who give those ‘facts’ with such depth of belief, because we have no other way to receive conflicting data. More so applicable lyrics from the same haunting song: “knowing that you lied straight-faced while I cried, still I look to find a reason to believe.”
Our singular hope must be based upon a rigorous and continuing search among alternative communications systems, such as those the Internet can provide, and opinions by real humans we respect. We must first recognize, then understand, and finally act in building our own belief system instead of accepting the one being delivered to us by mass media. The mass media started out being a venue for entertainment, but now, after years of learning and honing, it’s a venue for directing the actions and mindsets of the entire population by fashioning the news instead of reporting it.
Donald Trump lies about almost everything, some forty thousand or more since he’s been in government service.’ Yes, still, a great portion of the public almost literally kneels before him, wanting only to have a reason to believe. The song was written about a man and a woman, wherein the stakes are not that high when compared to the survival of the country or even the civilized world. Simply concluded, if a good portion of the public and the world’s population itself believes in what Donald Trump is saying, then a massive portion of every population on earth is going to die.
