Thoughts on the Current Nature of the Media and Culture

As far as I can tell, the same way Vince McMahon’s “professional wrestling” machine produces heroes and villains to keep his various audiences engaged in the “fight”, this video is not as representative as how Fox News acts as it is of how the news media machine acts in general. It is in the business of crafting heroes and villains to keep the cultural divide going, because that’s where it’s power rests. None of the commercial media outlets, nor those outlets owned and operated as news news media petting zoos by billionaires, are delivering news and information to inform a public to make better decisions. They make money and gain influence by creating cultural divides, by delivering narratives to serve their own agendas, and not that betterment of the people they would so desperately claim to be serving in order to keep the charade going.

Devious acts like this; of crafting the persona of a defender while actually being a predator is the benchmark of a corrupt culture. A culture by the way that requires people to believe in and act on the polarized narratives being stitched together for us, at the expense of our collective progress. It is an age old trick; to invite people to dinner with a smile never mentioning that they are part of the meal. Farming people like cattle to service the agenda of the few. My guess is to de-power this engine of corruption and self induced poverty we need to wake up to the fact that just because we’re being sold a drama to our own detriment, doesn’t mean we have to buy it.

Our common ground is Earth. Our best interest is served by a focus on serving where our opportunity is, and that is not served by infighting. Our common enemies are things like cancer and poverty, not each other, unless we decide that being the authors of our own poverty is the goal. Rebellion in a society with this particular brand of sickness that exploits and feeds on the populace comes in the form of beginning to come together as a people, to ignore the lies of division and to begin to behave in ways where we have each other’s backs – to stop believing the hyperbolic lie of division we’re being sold. We can hold the door for each other, let each other in when there’s heavy traffic, and celebrate every act that supports our collective strength. A society that nourishes and protects each other is a society that will progress, and there is not one of us that does not have something we can contribute to that common goal.

Being nice to someone and rooting for their success, without so much emphasis on political indoctrination is one way we can all get stronger. The same way our biological body has different organs with different priorities, that still work together under a unified purpose of nourishing and protecting each other, is the same principle at the foundation of the strength and the prosperity of a pluralistic society. This is where our bread is buttered, and where our opportunity comes from and if we choose to embrace this instead of the divisive lie we’re being sold by people who profit from that battle, then our progress will take root. We can increasingly live in a world where the fruits of having each other’s backs are realized and where the perpetual poverty that comes from being on each other’s backs diminishes if we embrace this notion, that we all swim in the same pond – that what we do to and for each other shapes what we all experience as life. As far as I know, it has never been any different.

I could be missing something(s).

Here is a link to an example of bias from one of the outlets, but again, it is representative of the industry at large.

https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/fox-news-different-reactions-regarding-negotiations-with-north-korea