If the planet is dying and know one really knows it, is it really dying?
Think about it: the demise of the earth is terribly unimportant when stacked up against everything else that truly matters in our lives like the horrific threats posed by supporters of abortion or gay rights. After all, we have those wonderful hacks on the corporate "news" networks to tell us what really affects us and what we should care about. Praise be to whomever.
Enter Bob Alexander with a very moving and disturbing editorial he titled NOISE. You know, - the noise that comes to us via the boob tube - the noise that blocks out the real world and convinces us that up is down and and day is night and that never lets us hear what is actually going on.
Here's an excerpt:
Media is like a mental neutron bomb. It blows the mind but leaves the other brain functions intact so people can still go to work, buy crap with the money they make, and continue to vote against their best interests until they die.
The media’s primary goal is to distract … and get us to react. We’re not getting enough information to thoughtfully respond to anything. The particulars of any story are distorted, omitted, or made up. We’re ill-informed, misinformed, or flat out lied to. There’s an agenda here folks, and it’s being carried out by the worker bees who fill our heads with noise all day every day coast to coast and border to border.
The Mainstream Drones in front of television cameras, radio microphones, or behind news desks don’t crank out stories as much as they manufacture premises. And these premises generate The Noise that becomes The News.
It's a good read. Disturbingly true, but really good.
NOISE