Everyone has a say; from top to bottom, and throughout the many outposts of commentary. Public announcements, press briefings, interviews, news reports, blog posts, lectures, rallies, magazines, social networks, conversations, demonstrations, TV, radio, and podcasts fill the air with news, opinion, propaganda, and analysis fill the communication ether with a regular feed, and the big media companies press for attention. So it goes for the responsible citizen keeping up with current events.Turn on, tune in, and get buried with information. Routinely we get crisis of the hour breakdowns that are presented as if they are like last minute do or die, heroes and villains ultimatums. Meanwhile, the crisis of the last hour disappears into obscurity. Refrains of accusations like, “That can’t be true.” and alibis such as, ” That’s not what I meant.” are the regular follow up to yesterday’s “fact”.The only way to keep up with this schizophrenic news mess is to have a working attention deficit disorder and some really cheap loyalty to long failed authorities that critically blew their credibility many moons ago. It’s hard to come right out and say that today’s news is fabricated regurgitated garbage, so suffice it to say, it’s not relevant.
Here’s one more point of view. Corporate puppet masters are pulling the strings on heads of state, and their media arm talking heads are doing their level best to drive story lines. There is, operating consecutively, an undercurrent of research hungry investigators screening the corporate undercarriage for actuality, fact, and truth. Free thinking people and truth seeking journalists undermine the corporate cause. Corporate news authority is being seriously challenged. So with big media certain commentaries are promoted while others are marginalized. The relevance of messaging is not proportional to the attention given, or received. So now we have these quirky manifests being dictated through media like the lines of some script, written by a playwright that has lost track of the plot. We have exaggerated cliche sound bites reported through caricatures of power players that have a lame failing trust posture. The subject matter of each manifesto relates to the cause that the speaker wants to support; it does not relate to actuality. The media is a tool. It’s a weaponized tool, and has been for a long long time. This is no mystery. The big media masters want to get in our heads and exercise unyielding influence and control. They must be in a form of panic, however. They don’t know when to say when, and what legitimacy cover they have left is getting blown out with idiotic hysterical hype. US President Biden’s recent MAGA rant in Philly is the latest example. It’s obviously hyped, theatrically delivered, and irrelevant. So irrelevant and wrong, in fact that they themselves could not walk it back fast enough. The upside of this debacle is the sacrifice of some final relevancy.
-Your wasted words will never be heard, go on home baby and watch it on TV. Wasted Words. -Allman Brothers Band, Gregg L Allman