You know, it's kinda easy to believe the media is the enemy of the people. Media and big tech in fact.
Just look at how they closed ranks with Antifa blaming Andy Ngo for being attacked by a violent mob.
How is this siding with the people?
It isn't.
And people are slowly coming to this realization.
Always recall, when totalitarians ruled Europe, the liberal media praised them.
From Reason's newsletter:
"Shamefully, media outlets excused the behavior. The Huffington Post carries the headline "Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland’s Streets. Once Again, They Got It” above a story that never pinpoints the attackers. The New York Times’ Charlie Warzel and Politico’s Alheli Picazo all but blame the victim in their tweets."
Any questions?
Just look at how they closed ranks with Antifa blaming Andy Ngo for being attacked by a violent mob.
How is this siding with the people?
It isn't.
And people are slowly coming to this realization.
Always recall, when totalitarians ruled Europe, the liberal media praised them.
From Reason's newsletter:
"Shamefully, media outlets excused the behavior. The Huffington Post carries the headline "Far-Right Extremists Wanted Blood In Portland’s Streets. Once Again, They Got It” above a story that never pinpoints the attackers. The New York Times’ Charlie Warzel and Politico’s Alheli Picazo all but blame the victim in their tweets."
Any questions?
To be sure, Americans never REALLY got along with each other, not even in the '60s.
ReplyDeleteThere's always been this covert and clandestine "civilian cold war" atmosphere between social, economic, and academic classes. On a more one-on-one level, even within the same neighborhoods, there's always been a disconnect between the "normal" families and the eccentric "oddball" ones---and especially between the kids of such in the school setting. Odd kids and weak kids were routinely bullied and slandered since time eternal, I'll wager.
The main thing I find most remarkable over the years is learning how smug, relaxed and secure most people felt in general prior to the "9-11" event, and how, when describing how "all that security got shattered for them" as a result of that incident, what they said reflects how I, myself, have ALWAYS felt in general---LONG BEFORE September 11 2001.
I've NEVER been comfortable living in American society. I've always found it to be sketchy, social-rank prejudiced, and a lot of "fellow citizens" to be malevolent megalomaniacs and conspiring and sabotaging.
What's different about the current social climate is the way this long-ongoing "civilian cold war" atmosphere is becoming more and more full-frontal. There now seems to be a greater number of physical attacks rather than the mere "stand-offish attitudes" and ostracizing of the past.
Not that there wasn't some degree of terrorism in the past---of coarse there was the Weather Underground, the Klu Klux Klan, the race riots, the student riots, Al Capone, the mafia, strong-arm police enforcement of Jim Crow laws
...but they weren't consistent front page news, nor were such things continually interfering with routine normal everyday life or with the functions of business, institutions,media, and public services.
"...of COURSE there was the Weather Underground..."
ReplyDeleteI did it again!! Misspelled a word in a comment I made to someone's blog site.
Silly me ....