Months ago I wrote that I was convinced Donald Trump would become president, or rather felt there was a strong likelihood of this happening. (Just checked my blog history, it was February, so about nine months or so).
Since then the Presidential race has heated up and has gone full supernova. CNN paints Trump like a buffoon and a fool and states that Hillary is going to win. Fox states that Hillary is a heinous criminal and that the people want Trump.
Alternative media are suggesting she will steal the race, they also suggest that billionaires like George Soros and other such individuals are the true masters, stealthily moving the chess pieces to arrive to their desired check mate.
Trump's been accused of raping children, of sexually harassing countless women. Hillary is accused of (if we are to believe wikileaks as fact then these are more than accusations) colluding with the DNC to rig the primaries against Bernie Sanders, of covering up countless mishaps and blunders (primarily the fucking email server I am so sick of hearing about) and of in general being a woman that the people cannot really trust.
Polls show a very tight race.
I don't know who is going to win, in fact I don't think anyone knows, unless of course the entire establishment is in fact backing their favored candidate (Clinton, this is not debatable I would think, a mountain of evidence shows she has been anointed and chosen by the media to represent the country) and will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to ensure she gets the vote.
Regardless of all of that, I see a much larger problem that is manifesting itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjnEm8DZkI
Here's a video from five years ago that talks about the information war between mainstream media and alternative media.
Before I go any further I need to explicitly indicate that there is a fundamental logical fallacy presented in the video that is very hard to ignore. The average viewer may not even notice it but it is not all that subtle if you know what to look for. The narrator describes US media as propaganda, which would suggest that alternative media is not propaganda.
I'm here to state a simple fact: it's ALL propaganda, whether it comes from the US, from Russia, or from anywhere else.
The real issue at stake here, I think, is whether or not reality can in fact be objectively communicated at all, whether or not we are capable of transmitting truth to each other.
I would argue that we can't. Our experiences are so very subjective, everyone has a different set of internal beliefs, a different set of values, all we can really transmit are facts, and facts are largely boring. Here are some boring facts:
- The production of coal in factory A is up 5% from last month to this month, but has hired 7% more employees thus some might conclude it is now less efficient.
- The job market has lost X amount of jobs in the salary range of 100K plus a year, but has gained 5X jobs in the salary range of 25-35K.
Facts are indisputable. They measure and report the findings of those measures, nothing more. Facts have no editorial content in them.
The news used to be about facts (Note: this is an OPINION, maybe they were never about facts I don't know).
The news today is all editorial content (Note: this is largely a FACT). Some facts are intermingled into the news, but the news company reporting those facts also tries to manage people's perceptions and reactions to those facts instead of just presenting them objectively for others to draw their own conclusions.
It is ironic to note that the information war that Hillary Clinton alludes to in the video has only gotten worse and worse. Wikileaks would be winning this information war if they had the same budget to spread its message than say CNN, and it would be winning it largely because there is no editorial content whatsoever, they just leak official documents they are given.
Here's another fact, the people are losing faith in the mainstream media, the numbers keep going down.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-just-6-percent-of-people-say-they-trust-the-media-2016-4
What these polls suggest is that people don't know where to turn to to find truth anymore. That the United States, or Canada or any large country for that matter, no longer has a united people because everyone is clinging to a truth that is most convenient to them. A nation is built up, it accumulates wealth and power, and then splinters apart again, the US is splintering apart right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcbElUsLBNo
Divided we fall, as the saying goes. The west is divided, and is beginning to fall, and no one knows where to turn to for answers anymore. And I certainly don't want to wade through 50,000 emails to try and figure it out for myself.
I just want a fair deal from my Government, that's all, I think that's all anyone really wants, a fair deal and maybe a little honesty wouldn't hurt either. But here's what's really going to upset you, there is no objective way to determine what is fair, so really, its all fucked.
Tuesday's election is a watershed moment, the empire is crumbling and neither candidate can really stem that tide at this point.
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