Years ago in ESPN Times Square we saw an enormous picture of Babe Ruth. It was hanging beside an open staircase on one side of an enormous dining room. As we approached the picture, it got a little blurry. It began to appear digital. It turns out to be a collage, made up of individual baseball playing cards. Up close you could read each individual card. They were all Yankees. We kept on looking for one player after the next. You knew the bigger picture, although, up close it would be anybody’s guess what it is. Hello modern world reporting.
For the past, who knows how long, legacy media has forced focussed on one individual card after the next. So much so, that the big picture of world civilization is combination unknown and/or forgotten. Each particular story card is bait. A bite on the bait, and the next thing I know, I’m caught up in a micro-universe of information that creates its own picture. By virtue of doing nothing more than keeping up with sponsored current events, it begins to seem that the only things that matter are rotating crises of the president, the war, the virus, the shooting, the market, the climate, the migration, et al. Add to the equation that the Fourth Estate and international empire news is little more than propaganda streams, and the picture of the world that comes into view is an intentionally skewed fictional account of happenings built on mere kernels of truth. Vaulting into my own world view, I find I’m about as disconnected from actuality as the spaceman that HAL untethers from the space craft in 2001 Space Odyssey. It’s distressing to get the sense of being detached from reality. It is so necessary to get some distance from the prevailing narrative body. Even if it’s just to satisfy curiosity, it would be great to begin to see the bigger picture.
Mark Twain quote, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you are mis-informed.” Apparently this rouge has been going on for some time. Suffice it to say the the beneficiaries of mis-information are more than happy to use high speed tech to ramp up the rate of public departure from effective reality. It has become a very interesting prospect of just how to liberate oneself from this fantastically bizarre world concept of essentially holographic nonsense. First things first…. Back away.