Im 36 years old.
During my 36 years here on this Earth, I feel two of the biggest issues thats Ive experienced are 9/11 and the warming of the Earth. Both issues usually dominate the news in forms of how we deal with these things. If I turn on Foxnews I hear about rah rah rah Muslims bad, or rah rah rah planet warming is false. On the flipside of that if I turn on a liberal news source I get the complete opposite.
When I was younger, I guess I just wanted to throw on my team liberal tshirt and go forth blindly. Growing up here in America, public school I feel teaches you that you have to choose a side. Theres no in between here. This form of thinking starts at the very youngest age and has enshrined itself all the way up to the top in our politics. You cant root for both teams. A viable third party candidate will only EVER result in skewing the two party election which really means nothing then since its still going to be the same thing we have had.
Anyway, back to the two issues I mentioned, 9/11 and global warming.
Both sides of the political party have their beliefs on what happened in regards to 9/11. Both sides use this event as a way to spin a negative attack onto the other side. If youre in the middle youre a lunatic who believes in conspiracy theories.
Is Jim Farmer a lunatic? He served as the senior counsel to the 9/11 commission. He said in his book that the official version of the 9/11 events is almost entirely untrue. Now that frightens me. Lets not argue about what happened, but lets question why this doesnt dominate the still daily discussion on 9/11. This guy was chosen by George Bush to be on this commission and he says its bullshit.
Im not trying to start a discussion about what really happened. We have a whole huge thread for that. Once again, however, in the face of uncertainty, we just pick and choose a side of whats presented to us in the mass media. We all just throw on the "Team Muslims did it" or "Team Bush did it" and we are content. How come we arent throwing on the "Team I dont know what the fuck happened" tshirt because the guy that we paid to investigate the incident says he doesnt know what happened and that the official version is false.
Now onto global warming. This call to arms is the liberals version of 9/11. Now dont get me wrong, the whole planet needs to be sustainable for life and we should be doing our damnedest to ensure that we keep our only home we have clean. Once again, however, we have to pick a side. Youre either with the liberals on this or youre on the side of global warming is a myth. There seems to be no alternative presented in the media for us to digest and think about. This frightens me even more than the 9/11 shenanigans because most people are arguing from the perspective of who is to blame while we ignore the deadly elephant in the room which is the fact that the ENTIRE solar system is experiencing global warming. You can google countless science articles that show data that says that we are witnessing changing climates on planets and moons all the way out to Neptune's moon. For everything else in the solar system, this climate change is blamed on the changing sun, but for Earth its a political agenda aimed at us.
So this leaves me to ask, where can I just go find unbiased news designed without an agenda. My father says when he was young the nightly news used to be like that. Now freedom of the press is reserved for whoever owns the press.
Who can you trust anymore?
During my 36 years here on this Earth, I feel two of the biggest issues thats Ive experienced are 9/11 and the warming of the Earth. Both issues usually dominate the news in forms of how we deal with these things. If I turn on Foxnews I hear about rah rah rah Muslims bad, or rah rah rah planet warming is false. On the flipside of that if I turn on a liberal news source I get the complete opposite.
When I was younger, I guess I just wanted to throw on my team liberal tshirt and go forth blindly. Growing up here in America, public school I feel teaches you that you have to choose a side. Theres no in between here. This form of thinking starts at the very youngest age and has enshrined itself all the way up to the top in our politics. You cant root for both teams. A viable third party candidate will only EVER result in skewing the two party election which really means nothing then since its still going to be the same thing we have had.
Anyway, back to the two issues I mentioned, 9/11 and global warming.
Both sides of the political party have their beliefs on what happened in regards to 9/11. Both sides use this event as a way to spin a negative attack onto the other side. If youre in the middle youre a lunatic who believes in conspiracy theories.
Is Jim Farmer a lunatic? He served as the senior counsel to the 9/11 commission. He said in his book that the official version of the 9/11 events is almost entirely untrue. Now that frightens me. Lets not argue about what happened, but lets question why this doesnt dominate the still daily discussion on 9/11. This guy was chosen by George Bush to be on this commission and he says its bullshit.
Im not trying to start a discussion about what really happened. We have a whole huge thread for that. Once again, however, in the face of uncertainty, we just pick and choose a side of whats presented to us in the mass media. We all just throw on the "Team Muslims did it" or "Team Bush did it" and we are content. How come we arent throwing on the "Team I dont know what the fuck happened" tshirt because the guy that we paid to investigate the incident says he doesnt know what happened and that the official version is false.
Now onto global warming. This call to arms is the liberals version of 9/11. Now dont get me wrong, the whole planet needs to be sustainable for life and we should be doing our damnedest to ensure that we keep our only home we have clean. Once again, however, we have to pick a side. Youre either with the liberals on this or youre on the side of global warming is a myth. There seems to be no alternative presented in the media for us to digest and think about. This frightens me even more than the 9/11 shenanigans because most people are arguing from the perspective of who is to blame while we ignore the deadly elephant in the room which is the fact that the ENTIRE solar system is experiencing global warming. You can google countless science articles that show data that says that we are witnessing changing climates on planets and moons all the way out to Neptune's moon. For everything else in the solar system, this climate change is blamed on the changing sun, but for Earth its a political agenda aimed at us.
So this leaves me to ask, where can I just go find unbiased news designed without an agenda. My father says when he was young the nightly news used to be like that. Now freedom of the press is reserved for whoever owns the press.
Who can you trust anymore?
