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I Read The News Today, Oh Boy !
Looks like it’s been another typical news day where mankind has distinguished itself with war-crimes, terrorism, discord, cruelty, greed, and general pointless nastiness. Pretty much like any other day, really.
In politics, an elderly socialist with a quixotic belief in democracy is terrifying the US Democratic Party establishment while Republican Presidential hopefuls bicker amongst themselves like badly brought-up children and exchange sniggering dick insults. Towering over the whole toxic shambles like Godzilla escaped from an old horror movie is Donald Trump, roaring out utter nonsense with the raucous rudeness weak men like to pretend is strength.
Right now American politics is making the very worst kind of reality TV shows look classy by comparison while Trump’s rowdy and often violent public rallies suggest that the spirit of Hitler’s brown-shirts lives on in right-wing heartlands. And this is just what’s being reported from the bizarro world of US politics. The rest of the news does very little to restore anyone’s faith in humanity.
There are religious fanatics busily blowing people to shreds with cheap home-made bombs while ‘freedom-loving’ Western politicians blow other people to shreds with expensive factory-made bombs. In the middle-east and the USA people who actually live by the tenets of the Christian or Muslim faiths are drowned out by loud-mouthed, power-hungry ‘religious’ bigots, spewing hatred, who think it is their god-given right to control the lives and choices of others.
Of course I know that the news media present about as realistic a picture of life as a Daffy Duck cartoon (and that’s on a good day) but if you read the papers or watch TV much its very easy to get sucked into the negativity and think that’s all there is. The fact is that TV and newspapers do not exist to provide a balanced view of whats going on in the world. Far from it.
They exist as instruments of political influence but primarily to make money for their owners and shareholders. To do this they have to secure as large an audience as possible and deliver it to their advertisers so product can be peddled. Controversy, scaremongering, and bad news grab attention while good news apparently doesn’t, which dictates what is relentlessly pitched at us every day. It’s mainly an entertainment of a particular nasty and negative kind.
Anyway, just in case you’ve read one of the national papers today or tuned into what we laughingly call a ‘news’ channel on TV, its always worth remembering that they present a very skewed and biased view of life. Out in the ‘real’ world, away from the media, the sun is probably shining, people are having fun and falling in love, and a lot of us are being helpful and kind to each other.
Of course bad things are happening to good people as you read this but that isn’t all that’s happening. Contrary to the impression so relentlessly fostered by the media it’s not all doom, gloom, disaster, and crime. There is a balance that so often seems to be completely ignored. There is kindness and humanity and decency and there are happy days too.
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