"As the mainstream media has completely lost credibility with many people, every claim under the sun is being made by people on social media and we’re now regularly seeing fake and staged videos presented as real, we’re starting to get a preview of what a post-truth world looks like."
It is the mainstream media that consistently reports what is fake, staged and presented as real. See the images and videos of protests supporting Democrat politics. There are maybe 50 people, but it is made to look like thousands. Then, if you can find it, see the image of the protest opposing Democrat politics with thousands and it is framed to look like a small group.
We have met the enemy of civilization, and it is certain people that work in media and they are generally female and feminized males.
As usual, Trump was right, when he pronounced the media as the enemy of the people. No exhaustive list is needed; we all know who the bad actors are. But some are so notorious that it defies any sense of reason or morality to believe anything they say or do. Chris Matthews, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, Brian Seltzer- is there anybody home in those gelatinous, zero-T skulls? Then you get to the barking buffoons like Tucker, traitors to every decent person. We are talking feminized men, so I left the bimbo brigade of Kaitlyn, Abby, Candace, every mindless zombie on the View, and the latest turncoat Megyn. Obviously I don't get to select who enters the New Jerusalem, but I'd be more than happy to testify against them all; people who sold out the truth, and for what? Power, money, and "influence;" instead of eternal life. Horrifyingly stupid.
Very well said. It seems to me that just about everyone in media these days are popularity whores looking for the niche of loyal followers to monetize. F*ck social media likes and followers. The model has turned the industry into a cesspool of plastic actors that have completely discarded any real professional journalist code of ethics.
Apathy is a protective mechanism to keep us from going mad by being inundated by "content" produced by "creators" who have, not unique insight into the world, but rather a mortgage, an editor and an audience that expects them to say certain things.
And if they don't produce content, it's back to working retail for them.
A while back, Paul Heyman, who is a big deal in the pro-wrestling world, said he thought politics had stolen away a lot of wrestling fans because it's the same kind of drama with real world stakes. When you look around today, it's pretty clear a lot of people are playing a character and don't have any principles that go beyond, "I need to get people to look at me." There was a time when people would have punished that kind of principle free behavior, but I don't see much evidence that happens anymore. If lying and saying anything to get attention don't have a real downside, you're going to get an awful lot of liars and people saying anything to get attention.
I always find it tragic when people are willing to sell their souls for filthy lucre; what good can ultimately come from pursuing a bargain with the devil?
What a freakin mess this is getting to be. It's easy to be a pessimist, esp as we get older, but in this case it seems to be right. Broken record time: Let's cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it one day for a crown. Probably explains why so many people attack Christianity; it was always based on the absolute authority of the Word of the Creator and Ruler of the cosmos. As Andrew Womack always says; "it's tight, but it's right." At least there is one rock, one fortress in a barren land. I hope people come to realize this and turn away from this social media madness. Thanks, John.
Good piece. This is a mess, of course. The real problem is that (1) reality apathy has been going on for what, 50 years? Maybe more?; and (2) the Democrats learned first and early on, that they could convince voters to ignore their own common sense and real world experience.
Hence, for example, people vote for politicians who promise that if we could only raise taxes on other people we can solve all of the problems we have been fighting for years but never seems to be solved (poverty being the most obvious example).
"As the mainstream media has completely lost credibility with many people, every claim under the sun is being made by people on social media and we’re now regularly seeing fake and staged videos presented as real, we’re starting to get a preview of what a post-truth world looks like."
It is the mainstream media that consistently reports what is fake, staged and presented as real. See the images and videos of protests supporting Democrat politics. There are maybe 50 people, but it is made to look like thousands. Then, if you can find it, see the image of the protest opposing Democrat politics with thousands and it is framed to look like a small group.
We have met the enemy of civilization, and it is certain people that work in media and they are generally female and feminized males.
As usual, Trump was right, when he pronounced the media as the enemy of the people. No exhaustive list is needed; we all know who the bad actors are. But some are so notorious that it defies any sense of reason or morality to believe anything they say or do. Chris Matthews, Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, Brian Seltzer- is there anybody home in those gelatinous, zero-T skulls? Then you get to the barking buffoons like Tucker, traitors to every decent person. We are talking feminized men, so I left the bimbo brigade of Kaitlyn, Abby, Candace, every mindless zombie on the View, and the latest turncoat Megyn. Obviously I don't get to select who enters the New Jerusalem, but I'd be more than happy to testify against them all; people who sold out the truth, and for what? Power, money, and "influence;" instead of eternal life. Horrifyingly stupid.
Very well said. It seems to me that just about everyone in media these days are popularity whores looking for the niche of loyal followers to monetize. F*ck social media likes and followers. The model has turned the industry into a cesspool of plastic actors that have completely discarded any real professional journalist code of ethics.
Apathy is a protective mechanism to keep us from going mad by being inundated by "content" produced by "creators" who have, not unique insight into the world, but rather a mortgage, an editor and an audience that expects them to say certain things.
And if they don't produce content, it's back to working retail for them.
A while back, Paul Heyman, who is a big deal in the pro-wrestling world, said he thought politics had stolen away a lot of wrestling fans because it's the same kind of drama with real world stakes. When you look around today, it's pretty clear a lot of people are playing a character and don't have any principles that go beyond, "I need to get people to look at me." There was a time when people would have punished that kind of principle free behavior, but I don't see much evidence that happens anymore. If lying and saying anything to get attention don't have a real downside, you're going to get an awful lot of liars and people saying anything to get attention.
Politics is acting for ugly people, I believe one guy said.
I always find it tragic when people are willing to sell their souls for filthy lucre; what good can ultimately come from pursuing a bargain with the devil?
Oh, come on now...that's just ambition and drive! Doing what you have to to get to the next level!
Yeah, as long as by "getting to the next level" means descending to an even lower circle of torment in Hades!
What a freakin mess this is getting to be. It's easy to be a pessimist, esp as we get older, but in this case it seems to be right. Broken record time: Let's cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it one day for a crown. Probably explains why so many people attack Christianity; it was always based on the absolute authority of the Word of the Creator and Ruler of the cosmos. As Andrew Womack always says; "it's tight, but it's right." At least there is one rock, one fortress in a barren land. I hope people come to realize this and turn away from this social media madness. Thanks, John.
Good piece. This is a mess, of course. The real problem is that (1) reality apathy has been going on for what, 50 years? Maybe more?; and (2) the Democrats learned first and early on, that they could convince voters to ignore their own common sense and real world experience.
Hence, for example, people vote for politicians who promise that if we could only raise taxes on other people we can solve all of the problems we have been fighting for years but never seems to be solved (poverty being the most obvious example).