The yearly "out of the blue" post.
I'm in the middle of a chat with normanparamedic, a friend of mine who's serving in Iraq at the moment, and has some great mural photos up on his site. The discussion has prompted me to post some of my thoughts here:
Terrorists are not our - the human race - current worst enemy. The media is. The media cause us to hate and anger and fear, and thus fight and blame and seek retribution and justice, rather than work together for what's possible for our world community.
The media's fundamental interest is power and money. They achieve this by keeping our attention on what they're saying, how they're spinning the world, what they're focussing our attention on. They achieve this by installing fear and anger against "others" and against our own governments. Governments that, if we could empower then rather than resisting them, could be the focal point for the sheer power of the human race.
With just a little focus, we put men on the moon... back in 1969! Imagine what we could do NOW with the technology and human resources we have. Yes, we have, all of us, done bad things in the past that we need to acknowledge and apologise for. This, however, should come secondary to creating what's possible for our future.
The media can, but has no interest in playing any part in this, and is being the worst possible detriment. The media, in its current form, needs to be shunned.
Terrorists are not our - the human race - current worst enemy. The media is. The media cause us to hate and anger and fear, and thus fight and blame and seek retribution and justice, rather than work together for what's possible for our world community.
The media's fundamental interest is power and money. They achieve this by keeping our attention on what they're saying, how they're spinning the world, what they're focussing our attention on. They achieve this by installing fear and anger against "others" and against our own governments. Governments that, if we could empower then rather than resisting them, could be the focal point for the sheer power of the human race.
With just a little focus, we put men on the moon... back in 1969! Imagine what we could do NOW with the technology and human resources we have. Yes, we have, all of us, done bad things in the past that we need to acknowledge and apologise for. This, however, should come secondary to creating what's possible for our future.
The media can, but has no interest in playing any part in this, and is being the worst possible detriment. The media, in its current form, needs to be shunned.