RE: Muh Climate Change, Muh Conspiracy And Angry Ignorance.
I used to have a “the sky is falling” mentality when I was 11. I thought our world would’ve ended a decade or two ago by WWIII, no more petro, acid rain, or a water war in the southwest. I dropped my news consumption when I got to high school especially after doing a summer internship at a news station and diversified where I got my news. There is a lot more good in the world than what the news reports and there are a lot more discerning minds trying to piece together the complex information. I’d like to think that sanity will overcome the madness. Right now, the world is a nutty circus and people are just starting to ask who’s running this stupid show that’s making the masses miserable. With the internet, more people are gathering to question the crazy. It’s replaced the porch discussions of yesterday or sitting around the radio days. I don’t know how many families even share mealtimes together, but a free and uncensored internet is our place to connect and make sense of things and find truth. Some will focus on the problems, problems, problems. That’s whack-a-mole game to me. Personally, I’m interested in the power plays. I appreciate the research and questions that people put forth that don’t need to incite further rage or anger for something everyone in their right mind can see as unjust. Rather they inspire further investigation and questioning. Eventually, it has to reach a point of change. Until then, I expect the craziness to uptick because maybe we are closer to creating change and this is the upset before such.
The world is watching. It literally was not that way not so long ago.
JNET
Thank you for the thoughtful reply.
Indeed things have changed so much over the years. One example is many have assumed for years I am Republican, yet I can remember a time years ago when many Democrats had harder stances considered conservative than I hold now.
I too had to drop watching the news some years ago. Depending on which pulpit one subscribes to it lives up to its name of television programming, almost always designed to stir anger against the "other side" who almost never had a direct hand in what caused the problem to begin with.
It can seem overwhelming if you allow the experts to dictate what is perceived as the truth. Made all the easier because there are indeed scoundrels taping all of us as they seek to implement more discord between us all.
The only tool I can discern that can possibly disarm what is being done is for us to stop looking for battle with everyone else and cultivate our commonalities like a finely tended garden. No politician (paid actor/actress) is going to save us, they are the paid front for what is oppressing all of us. It is up to us to challenge them based on our common agreements and not allow them to control the dialogue on issues meant to divide and rob us of our well being.
I forget his name at the moment, but I shared videos sometime back of a man who was turning common grass areas in his neighborhood into gardens so there would be free food that wasn't grown with poisons for the community there. Now that's a great example of a commonality we all share. The desire to eat good food without being extorted for it not being poisoned.