I spoke with Scottie yesterday. He wants me to do a ‘daily thought’ thing. Well, I don’t really have time for daily thoughts (lol) but here goes.
I recently watched a Pierce Morgan episode where he confronted Neil DeGrasse Tyson for having the temerity to disagree with “the greatest mind” of the generation, his hero Elon Musk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_aT9jbxrHY
Mr. Tyson commented that the idea of going to Mars is not practical. Not that he didn’t support it, but that something that costly, that reaching, that highly technological and requiring new technology, would not be good business – and if it isn’t an issue of religion or war, the idea was unlikely to be fulfilled. Pierce went on to ignore most of what Mr. Tyson said in order to Rah!Rah! Musk.
What was worse, in my mind, is that he couldn’t seem to find his way out of his prepared argument in order to really listen to Mr. Tyson. The result was that he spouted the very arguments that Tyson had already refuted without bothering to address those refuted points.
Shortly after that I watched a clip of ABC News speaking on an unidentified object in the sky. It was Venus, you know – the planet? Identified centuries ago, it’s orbit mapped and described and is available at the stroke of a few keys or on a handy free phone ap that shows the stars and planets in the night sky. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bv8f7KHnz5Q
So What? Right? Well, my point is not that I’m so smart, because I am surely not. It’s not that I have this issue well in hand, because I surely don’t.
It is quite simply that we are bound to spiral and fail in any endeavor not for, as Pierce Morgan believes, the doubting of Elon’s great dream, but because the dream is nothing without the facts! We find our entertainment in make believe and our news in hypocrisy and innuendo. Don’t get me wrong, I never really liked school and I prefer my entertainment to be fantastic and unreal, but I want my news to be real and factual, and that is near impossible in our current dissemination of what is called “news”. We spend millions on debating the validity of transgender in NCAA sports when come to find out there are less than 10 in the 510,000 athletes. We have chosen to excuse our political leaders for their crimes yet seek to lock up children because “they should have known better”. We have allowed our children to be poorly educated and malnourished while the super wealthy demand tax breaks. We have chosen to believe the lies and made him president, and the first things he has chosen to do are the eradication of of the departments of Education, Energy, Environment and the National Academy of Science.
The use of fear and fabrication is not new to politics, to news pundits, to religious leaders, and of course, the downplaying of anything enlightening and thought encouraging is the true mark of a great propagandist and conman. I mean, “who are you going to believe: Me or your lying eyes?”
Clip the strings.
Hugs. -Randy
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Grand post Randy. I hate that the things you wrote are so true and easy to see, yet the right wants it this way, because they are being driven by the greed of the upper incomes. Your point of hosts and interviewers not even listening to the replies or addressing the ideas of the guests to instead push their own views regardless is horrifyingly becoming so common people just don’t catch or views just expect it.
And when did opinion become fact over expertise? Doctor Fauci spend 40 years in the field of study he was in, ran government departments, had PHDs, did continue education … and his measured advice was called treason by morons watching fox entertainment opinion hosts who were pay to mock him. People sitting on their toilets looking on their phones decided a fake study of 26 people 6 of who died meant that ivermectin was more effect against covid than a well researched vaccine. These people felt Joe Rogan a mixed martial arts person and talk show host, and failed news anchor want to be Tim Pool with their podcasts know far more about subjects that experts with education and medical knowledge.
I am watching Cenk Uygar make claims and accusations about the left while saying good things about the right while the host tries to keep him on subject or get him to look at it if the situation was reversed, that if Kamala Harris had won and the right wing hosts came to the left shows talking about how great the left was. We would say they are selling out and they would be kicked out of their own club. Be he can’t see that because he has convinced himself the right wing maga are inclusive and the left wing progressives are exclusive. But he is the one saying the left has to stop being inclusive and championing the minorities if we want to win, or get the right to like us better. No thanks.
The reason he says that is now that he is attacking parts of the left and the left leadership the right is telling him he is correct and keep going while the left shows / hosts keep asking why he is moving towards the right. When asked that question he immediately claims he is being unfair attacked and mistreated while playing the victim.
As you say, drama, fear, and anger sell views and clicks, and the left if not without their own power hungry greedy media people. Hugs
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