Prometheus 6   

Why I'm Here

Because I have to say something about all of this.

"This"?

What "this" is, is the threat that I, personally, feel because of the way national affairs are playing out in the USofA. I find the political process is currently driven by inuendo and character assasination. I find the participants on all sides less than honorable. I see the goals currently pursued and the actions taken to pursue them . . . distasteful.

I shouldn't be surprised, and in fact I'm not really. Methods of shaping public opinion are well known. They depend on people being asleep and wanting to remain so. They depend on people assuming their trusted sources of information are both trustworthy and complete . . . assumptions people need to make if they are to have enough confidence to live day to day.

The problem with that is, our information sources nowadays have no connection to us and therefore no real interest in our best interests. They are so alien to our nature--wire services as opposed to town criers--that their interests literally cannot coincide with ours.

What I want to do here is talk to the town criers. And I'll be talking more about people than politics.

There are other problems, other issues, more than I can handily drop into this off-the-cuff first post. I'll get to them eventually.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/6/2003 11:18:34 AM |