How to Think, How to Follow

In life and in all things involving huamns, there come a moment when everything truthful and honest slips away and become consumed by the misleading. In the days of old a man would stop on his walk home from work and kick a ball with a local child - give this vision to an avid media representative the innocent event quickly become paedophile stalks children, lock your doors. From this one small even a media empire creates and develops fear and sells advertising to others for it decemination. Where once simple truth used to reside now lives the complexities of doubt,suspicion and fear. There is no honesty within this, no truth to be shared with other to make a better, safer world; there is only profit to be made through slight of hand and misleading information.

Maybe the work has become hypersensitive to small events and has been shown and led into the protection of the backyard to the detriment of the neighbour. No longer is it safe to believe in the good of humankind, as this, when shown is burned back by the hyperbol of the money lenders and the interests of the porfiteers and their way of creating a following. Why do the people of the world, or the world that is permitted some semblance of supposedly free information and communication, allow themselves to be mislead in such a way - why, when the truth and reality of something obvious stares at them in the face, do they allow and accept such a grossly contaminated view of the world?

Whether the issue is a Carbon Tax, or Emmissions Trading scheme in Australia or Health Care for All in the USA the influences of wealth will determine what is right for the people rather than the policies or projects themselves. If the mega wealthy, who would see negligable alteration in their standing through such schemes, oppose these initiatives then the media reports everybody opposes them and run campaings to convince the general population that they did oppose such things. In western democratic societies the idea of freedom has been erroded away, not by governments in general, but by the media and its control of information for the Corporate sector. Perhaps note how the oil companies are still doing very well despite distaters with spills - the token attacks on them by the media has now waned but the disasters still exist.

How do you, the individual fight against the entitites that have indee stolen your voice and corrupted the idea of free speach top mean, free speach to those who can afford it, or pay the price.

Next time you sit down and read a paper, google a news item or simply watch a news feed on the internet or TV question what is on sale, what version of the truth has been purchased and what is it you are trying to be made to believe?

This world is today a sadder place, not because of the general population, or because of their lots in life but because the media tells us it is so, and so sad in fact that the people should fear everything, stay indoors and order their advertisers products on line. Isaac Asimov wrote a novel something like this, or more a science fiction story dealing with the great fear of the outside and contact, in any direct fashion with others. Caves of Steel it was called and remembering back to this simple premise it is hard not to see how much his future vision of humanity is what is promoted as the way to be.

Don't believe everything you read or see, but at the same time it is only by reading and seeing you learn - be cautious, be aware and above all things in your life, shelve all those hard held prejudices, those hatred and dislikes because you can be certain, they have been built on lies in some part.

Who do you follow when the leaders are not what we are being sold? Follow the ones who threaten the money, follow those who stand against the wealthy and those who want to keep you afraid.