Brilliant public relations to smear the act of protest and protesters, but brilliant on behalf of what? For whom does this demonizing of the protester serve?
Surely, the protesting of false information is a terrible threat to those who peddle it.
It is outrageous to have to accept that our country's biggest media today, both print and televised, presents biased fictional news about world events and our lives, along with celebrity "breaking news" stories considered to be news, and that this whole mess is taking the place of what once was called, "journalism"!
Many Americans don't have a clue that there could be real news somewhere, or that it's not being delivered. Those who are aware are too overwhelmed to dwell upon it, and are resigned to "the way it is".
There are many of us in this latter camp. We talk amongst ourselves about the media lies du jour, a shared, fundamental sigh infusing our sad words.
I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: America is a depressed nation. Is it any wonder that Americans are individually so depressed?
The worst truth is that we are in such a depth of depressed anger and denial that many will regard this essay as "negative".
We are so overwhelmed and flummoxed by the swift overtaking of public truth that we fail to act, let alone protest.
Psychology explains the danger in avoiding unattractive truth.
The reason psychotherapy has a prayer of being successful is that unless you identify and acknowledge the existence of a problem, there is zero possibility to change it.
So we are asleep and America is depressed. If you don't believe me, look around. Look up from your life-replacing hand-held device. Look into the empty eyes of people all around you.
Voila. It's not pretty, but it has been achieved to the point where "news" and other dangerously false promotions are not questioned by many people.
We are too exaggeratedly engaged by computer living.
As a strategy for distracting people, how utterly brilliant and successful.
I'm not talking conspiracy. I'm talking money, power, politics.
And if we become considered violent crazies because we protest, all the better.
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