Writings from 11/02 to 3/05. |
6-23-03 What to do? Life rotates circularly. Beams crashing down on one from infinite angles will certainly cause confusion. A smarter man knows when to pick and choose his vantage points and his deceptive weaker spots. How do you know what's best? You can't believe what you see, and you can't trust what you're fed on television is going to satisfy your point of view. And that, itself, is not what the conglomerates want you to believe. They choke the small mouth shut just so you can hear them tell you what it is you should live by as "truth". I spin my wheels furiously in circles, trying to see everything from the proper perspective. Medias call me "anti-x" or "bi-partisan" or for lack of a better term, "wrong". Every news outlet is owned by everyone of the same ilk; a year-round summer camp for "proper" populist culture. I sit in my chair as the uneasy voice of dissent, clamoring for a change while deaf ears program world peace via wars. I know they feel that the know-betters know nothing, because they don't have the corporate sponsorships backing them up. I feed off of what I see. But I want the whole story. I'm not wishing on a star when I want the truth in news. I want to connect with something I believe in. The First Amendment says it's ok for me to ask for an opinion on what is or isn't happening. Don't force-feed me. Don't make me happy. Make me think, and make me figure things out for myself. Many options sporting the same slants mean nothing. I want to see a view I can respect and back as I would any creed I could create and stand behind as my own. Not something that's being pushed on me, as if I were to be scolded for not adhering to. I want options and opinions. I want the democracy I was born into to start heeding its own jurisdictions and mantras and let me see that there's another place I can go to understand the hows and whys of everything that matters to anyone. |