(08-01-2021, 10:13 AM)BIAD Wrote: By the way, your description of the being in your 'hallucination' is really worrying!
Oh, I have far more worrisome ones, much more regularly! For example, in the " 'tween", that time right between when one is fully awake and when one falls into slumber, I often see a large green bipedal lizard. Not Godzilla large, but about 8 or 9 foot tall. Scaly. Big teeth. Forked tongue. Bothersome bugger! I swear I'm gonna poke it hard with a pointy stick some night, just to see what happens!
I think I understand what you mean by your concern for the direction of what passes for "journalism". What happens when NO ONE trusts anything the news services say anymore? There is already a large cohort of folks who no longer trust them because of the lies, the illogic, and the sheer mass of inconsistency they have passed off onto a formerly unsuspecting public, but one which is rapidly beginning to suspect when no two news stories add up to a logical conclusion. It's bad enough when newscasters try to palm off opinion as if it were hard fact with no disclaimer, but it's much, much worse when they tell half truths, outright lies, and inconsistent tales as "news", and present it as "fact".
So what happens when a critical mass of the public no longer trusts the legacy media? Where do they get their "news" from then? Do they even get any news, or do they simply start killing whatever gets in arms reach because they can no longer trust anything, yet still have the basic human need to remain safe from the unknown, to defend themselves against what they do not know?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’