What events shape our views?
Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
Until the early 90's I still thought there was a decent chance for peaceful political change. We all respond to certain events that have greater effects on our understanding of the machine. For me it was a series of events in the early 90's.
( I have omitted one earlier event that most Gulchers have experienced: reading Atlas Shrugged in 1982.)
Significant events that exposed the machine for me:
- The Savings and Loan "Crisis" and how it was "resolved" showed me how rigged the system was for Wall Street bankers and how the media and government was controlled by them.
- Ross Perot's run for president and the "events" around his dropping out of the campaign exposed how easily the selection of US president could be manipulated.
- The Waco Massacre and Ruby Ridge murders: how government 'punished' not the murderers, but the victims, and how double-speak was embedded in government as Janet Reno took 'responsibility.' Government's true nature on display for all to see.
- TV coverage of Nixon's funeral. This was the first time I took notice of the absence of competition among the major news sources. Through most of the 20th century the newspapers and radio and tv networks tried to distinguish their reporting and journalism as unique and more worthy of the audience's time than their competitors. There were always different reports, different camera angles, from network to network. It wasn't always good, but it was often distinctive. At Nixon's funeral the feeds for all the networks were like peas in a pod and often used the same camera feed. I don't know why this happened on this event, but it caused me to see the news differently.
- Time Warner's acquisition of Turner Broadcasting and CNN. This put an end to the chance of independent investigative reporting on tv. This was a propaganda coup, in my opinion and it foreshadowed the future of media control by crony capitalists.
- The GOP taking control of both houses of con-gress in the Republican Revolution of 1994. This exposed the true nature of the GOP as just the slightly less liberal wing of the statist party. GOP, Lapdogs of the Left.
There have been other contributing events since then, but I'd rather hear from Gulchers about the significant events that shaped their understanding.
( I have omitted one earlier event that most Gulchers have experienced: reading Atlas Shrugged in 1982.)
Significant events that exposed the machine for me:
- The Savings and Loan "Crisis" and how it was "resolved" showed me how rigged the system was for Wall Street bankers and how the media and government was controlled by them.
- Ross Perot's run for president and the "events" around his dropping out of the campaign exposed how easily the selection of US president could be manipulated.
- The Waco Massacre and Ruby Ridge murders: how government 'punished' not the murderers, but the victims, and how double-speak was embedded in government as Janet Reno took 'responsibility.' Government's true nature on display for all to see.
- TV coverage of Nixon's funeral. This was the first time I took notice of the absence of competition among the major news sources. Through most of the 20th century the newspapers and radio and tv networks tried to distinguish their reporting and journalism as unique and more worthy of the audience's time than their competitors. There were always different reports, different camera angles, from network to network. It wasn't always good, but it was often distinctive. At Nixon's funeral the feeds for all the networks were like peas in a pod and often used the same camera feed. I don't know why this happened on this event, but it caused me to see the news differently.
- Time Warner's acquisition of Turner Broadcasting and CNN. This put an end to the chance of independent investigative reporting on tv. This was a propaganda coup, in my opinion and it foreshadowed the future of media control by crony capitalists.
- The GOP taking control of both houses of con-gress in the Republican Revolution of 1994. This exposed the true nature of the GOP as just the slightly less liberal wing of the statist party. GOP, Lapdogs of the Left.
There have been other contributing events since then, but I'd rather hear from Gulchers about the significant events that shaped their understanding.
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- 1Posted by D_E_Liberty 10 years, 8 months agobeing a political activist in Washington D.C. FOR 20 years seeing how all the events you mention and thousands more get spun, recast, and revised before they are feed to a Hungary media machine that will swollow whole and then regurgitate the politics propaganda "un-digested". I can tell you from first hand experience as one who new the truth in many situations, that almost nothing you see or hear in the news is and accurate reflection of the former. Frankly no one can be trusted at their word. The truth IS out there but unless you are an insider, you will rarely see it, and you won't know it when you do. the best we can do is live in Plato's cave and try to Devine the truth from the shadows cast on the wall seen through a glass darkly. That's what amounts to informed polical consent in the 21st century. so much for the founders key stone constitutional reliance on an informed citizenry to chech the abuse of government power.| Permalink
