I have long felt that the solution to many of the problems Americans face could be found in, first and foremost, popping the media bubble that we are forced to live within. Humans use mirrors to see themselves -- we seem to almost uniquely have the ability to understand something external as representing our selves. That mirror was never going to present a perfect reflection, but it's now being strategically used to present to Americans a willfully falsified picture of themselves as a people. Individually, we create a world from the myriad inputs our senses provide; as a people we create a world from the inputs available to us. The single most influential of these is TV.
Whoever controls TV controls the reflection we judge ourselves to be -- they define us to ourselves; they create our national identity.
That mirror is crazed and cracked. The image is monstrous, mistaken, wrong.
Here on DKos, almost everything we do is part of an effort to correct that wrongness. It's how I came here, and why I not only stay, but rely on DKos for news and insight -- for that most precious of things, a straight draught of reality. (Of course, all media is a mixed meal; one orders what seems nutritious, and passes on dishes that are not.)
This diary is not about that -- not directly. I do think it's a proper way to reflect on what I present below the mating orange winkles: how to get the full BBC Olympics site, with all 24 live feeds, when you live within the media bubble of the US. Fill your lungs, and let's go below. Make it a deep breath -- we are leaving the land NBC pretends we live in, leaving behind NBC's canned, boiled, canalized, childized, all-for-the-good-of-advertisers pablum-pump.
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