GETTING THROUGH THE FILTERS
Separating us from the
morality of presumed even handed humane justice, inherited from our past, is a
minefield of falsifications. Every presentation depicting detailed planning
for our continued prosperity, is filtered to pacify. Media filters what it
reports to us. It’s their way of designing a story to have the utmost market
penetration. Though they are constantly caught lying by omission, that way of
reporting is set in concrete. It won’t stop.
The federal government
filters their reports to the media. Watch a White House news conference.
Reporters try their best to get around the run-around they are involved in.
Having no more than filtered information, a pressing deadline to meet, they
“develop” a story with impact. Is the story accurate? Does it have any value
other than meeting a deadline? How can it? When the media is brought to task
... they claim they are being used and don’t know how to avoid it.
Branches within our
government filter reports to one another. They resemble a “football team In a
huddle” more than an astute body responsible for our destiny. Before each
contact they group to learn the secret play ... then take their positions for
the attack. In reality they are just participating in a game of “political
sport.” It’s a game that only allows us to be spectators. When was the decree
of Federal Government altered to permit them to change our banner ... “We The
People” to “You The Spectator”?
Industrial Giants engage in
their share of filtering. Their reporting to government, union leadership,
media and all of them in turn to us, is filtered beyond recognition. It must
be or so many Americans would not be up in arms because of it. “We The People”
having been denied the truth are reeling under the effect its absence has had
on us.
“Power on high” certainly
filters and refilters all information ... all the time. The silence resounding
from every secret meeting speaks volumes. Secret BB meetings, secret TR
meetings, secret government meetings, secret lobbyist meetings, secret
agendas, are all around us blocking our view of the future. Are they legal and
above board? Every one involved is surely trying to make it appear so.
No matter how scintillating
the artful-dodgers in government attempt to make their reporting appear,
“society is tuning them out by the droves.” If this keeps up they will be
elected to office by just a fraction of the population. Who knows? It might be
exactly what they’re aiming for. If the electorate diminishes any more,
government will no longer represent “We The People.” Rather than recognizing
our growing contempt, they blame us for abandonment. Positioned between the
Devil and the deep blue sea, we feebly search for corrective solutions.
Electronic journalism,
locked in a war like ratings environment, has not produced beneficial results
for us. The prime product reaching our eyes and ears is tabloid
sensationalism. Just recently Clinton and O.J. clashed in a moment of truth.
Clinton was beginning his address to the people on the State Of The Union, and
at that very same
moment O.J. was about to
receive his verdict. One might imagine under normal circumstances, what is
happening to America would take precedence. Not so! Both events were
simultaneously juggled using split screen television. I think O.J. won out.
There must be a extensive amount of people no longer interested in listening
to government’s twisted language. Media knew what ratings O.J. would create.
They knew what they were doing.
Journalists report on
complicated economic happenings without having a smidgen of formal training
relating to the subject ... and it shows. With an implanted smile and strange
voice cadence, not in the least connected to the subject matter, they falter
over a queued script, report horrendous disasters, and the smile never leaves
their faces. All in a days work I guess. Certainly they have no idea how
bizarre their performance appeared to the viewer.
TV talk shows keep
showcasing the same pundits with repetitious never changing attitudes. Its
become a formalized method of tv showmanship. News has become more focused on
entertainment than responsible reporting. Intelligent reporting and debating
are sacrificed for ratings. Electronic news is developed and formatted in a
regimented atmosphere far removed from the society their hustling. It becomes
another filter ... an extremely harmful one. Tv news and talk shows -- the
prime source of information in this electronic world ... have become the worst
source.
Because of the extent to
which electronic media enters our lives -- because that’s the best source of
power’s lecturing to us -- because the tube parades every possible spin artist
before us ... “it has the power.” Who controls the
airwaves? Power! - Power! -
Power! Who can filter information deemed to be inappropriate for us,
information vital to us? Power! - Power! - Power!
The news now reduced to
“show time,” finally caused those delivering the trash (feeling public
pressure and disgust) to publicly scrutinize themselves. What caused it? Was
it a rating war, feedback from consumers, or could they have actually realized
they went too far? Whatever ... don’t expect a return to honesty. Expect a
trivially modified format they believe will quash our rebellious attitude.
In our quest to recapture
our future, our America, (a country we never imagined could be diverted to
such a terrible future) we have got to get past the filters. The greatness of
America, the dreams of its people, didn’t just fall apart in the past twenty
years or so ... they were cannibalized. Pretty soon, the reality that there
was once a time when father alone could support the family, mother could
devote herself to nurturing the family, children had two biological parents
... will become historians mysteries. It’s already underway. Another
generation or so, and all credible reference to a friendlier more civil time
will be gone.
The single parent population
grows, gays demand equal marriage rights, the necessity for two parents
working to support the traditional family is gaining ground. What do our
leaders say about this “power promoted deviation”? Basically, it computes to
“keep it going.” Hawaii makes same sex marriages legal, our president promotes
the rights of gays in the military but says don’t tell, the solution to a
demolished education system is put a computer on every
child’s desk, rental agents
are prone to let an assemblage of significant others share an apartment. Get
the message? Some future.
There can be no disputing
what is happening to us. A dream in disarray fading into obscurity, never to
be addressed or possibly rescued ... only exacerbated by our most important
source of information, “media.” They have been altered by the power of money
to becoming the most disruptive of filters. They are obstructionists
extraordinaire.
Our elected officials snugly
settled into their altered concepts of duty, keep on behaving like elected
rulers. Other than the right to vote (and that’s become a dubious act), we
have been cut off from meaningful participation in the corporation we the
people developed and are the major stockholders of ... The United States Of
America.
Our elected employees invent
... and journalists sensationalize. What can we count on? How can we manage to
participate with the some advantage? Both parties, D’s or R’s, load us down
with opposing illusions that reach monumental extremes in misrepresentation.
Even the Wall Street Journal has to step into the fray and print something
akin to logic ... eluding to the fact they don’t know what they are talking
about. Is that a problem for our elected miscreants? Don’t be silly, they know
exactly what they’re doing. If we get a glimpse of an independent whose
figures do make sense and seem to add up, the system will inundate him.
The electronic media
together with the carefully selected personalities appearing on it, have
become possessed with an assumed duty to turn night into day. The audience
that used to believe is rapidly shrinking. More and more are becoming wise to
politics game of “three card monte.”
Assuming there is a way to
work through the filters of government and media, the next to confront would
be corporate, an awesome barrier to a higher power. This filter to ultimate
knowledge holds us in complete contempt. They know how to crush us at will --
one obvious example is downsizing; “intended job elimination because of
planned industrial elimination.” As power postures for its place in the “New
World Order” ... we are being put in our place. Just the other night I heard
on TV that McDonald’s was about to hire 30,000 welfare recipients. This would
get them off the “public rolls” onto the “burger rolls.” I guess they saw it
as their public relations coup for the day? The media thought it was great.
Some future?
Job retraining has become
the non-stop rhetoric of power. Somehow it’s supposed to be accepted as a
reasonable goal oriented path in the midst of chaos. We the people cry foul.
It’s obvious that even the McDonald’s level of employment is becoming
overcrowded. Besides, who can disagree, that is not supposed to be our future?
We want the jobs stolen from us to be returned. By now you must realize what
we want is of no consequence. Only the agenda of power will move forward ...
relentlessly.
Without slacking off for a
moment, our pompous government employees invent cock-and-bull stories,
attempting to convince us they sincerely have our interests at heart. We have
spoken to them; created citizen action groups, written letters to the editor,
marched on the capitol in vast numbers, even rebelled with outright violence
... all to no avail. We are skillfully kept at bay. They know how to manage
that.
We the people, we the
consumers, are an absolute necessity for the power structure. This is not like
past history when power grew primarily as a result of conquering land and
people. Controlling markets is the way of it now. “We” are the market. We the
consumer is what the secret silent war is all about. Just as we depend on
industry to provide livable wages, industry depends on us to consume. If a
corporation fails to profitably sell enough to meet analysts’ expectations,
the value of their stock goes down. The upshot is, corporate has found ways to
meet analysts’ expectations. Downsizing rather than long term investment fills
the bill instantly and very well. If for some reason even downsizing isn’t
enough, corporate then goes to war to secure chunks of another arena in the
world market. That’s the balance of trade war reported to us daily. That is
the reason we will trade with a country that tortures and deprives its
citizens, and even award that country favored nation status. Corporate wants
it that way. So, our government puts us aside over here and helps put
corporate where they shouldn’t be ... over there.
If we can’t work at decent
paying jobs that give us the luxury of having sufficient disposable income, it
stands to reason, we can only buy essential items. Sooner or later this will
make corporate sick. Is it possible to hurry the process and give them
pneumonia “right now” without contracting it ourselves? Is this one way of
crashing the doors of power? Migrant workers used that tool. A greater
coalition using the same tool might effect a greater success.
Listening to a program Perot
conducted on tv, the following (paraphrased) caught my attention. “I wanted to
be a pearl, looked in the mirror and realized it couldn’t be. I then thought
about being the oyster that made the pearl and said that was not possible.
Then I realized, I could be the grain of sand that irritated the oyster to
make the pearl.”
United consumers, well
organized and dedicated, could give corporate a resounding wake up call. We
can become the embedded irritant only one prescription can cure: Give America
back to us, and attempt to behave like responsible citizens. Corporate may
again feel “some restraint” by law and make “some effort” to be a part of
humanity.
To kill us, who are a goodly
chunk of their market, is not the goal of power. So! why do they do us like
they do? Perhaps we give them to much credit. Maybe, simply, they can be
stupid, crazed with power, out of control? Maybe?
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