This post was originally a reply to a comment that Steggie wrote on Booman’s recent post The ‘Objective Press’ and Liars.
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Steggie wrote:
…when someone objectively represents a threat to democracy how do you report objectively about it?
Is “objective” reporting even possible as things stand now? We are living in a news-reported virtual reality. It can be changed…as it has been recently changed over the incredibly short period of less than two weeks regarding the odds on the coming election…basically at the whim of the controllers.
Booman pinned it in a recent post. I was traveling and not saving tidbits of info, so I do not really recall the context, but he was writing about someone high in the DC controller system who said something that was ostensibly a policy statement but was really a shot across the bows of the media to warn them off of being too critical of HRC/too favorable to Trump. (Maybe an editorial? A video? Gates? Whatever. Whomever.) Booman observed that this worked very rapidly. (Chime in here, please, Booman. I don’t have the time to do an exhaustive search right now.)
Anyway…how can we be “objective” when everything we believe to be true is as easily changed as would be the bits and bytes on a giant computer? Some totally out-there nerds are positing the idea that we are living in a virtual reality that has been created by some advanced civilization somewhere/somewhen. (From the Bank Of America, of all places!!! And Elon Musk, too.) They are way off. We are living in a virtual reality that has been created by the people who seek to control us.
Read on for more.
Always remember this astonishing little piece of information that surfaced during Bush II’s reign, ostensibly from that pioneer turd blossom of reality warpsmanship, Karl Rove:
The aide [Rove]said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore.” He continued “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality–judiciously, as you will–we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Suskind, Ron (2004-10-17). Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush. The New York Times Magazine.
We’ve come a long way in 12 years.
Haven’t we.
A little piece of old-fashioned reality…you remember, when things actually happened in physical time.. peeked out of the virtual one last week when HRC almost fell on her face while surrounded by Secret Service helpers and someone managed to film and disseminate it. It was quite clear what happened to anyone with a well-functioning set of eyes. (A state that could be defined as a result of some kind of genetically-carried natural resistance to The Emperor’s New Clothes virus that has been with us for eons. The kid in that story was immune, way back then.)
Now…a week later…she’s suddenly all better and any doubts expressed on that subject are pegged as “lying down with dogs.”
Nice.
Maybe they’ll cure the common cold with it, too.
Until we start sneezing, of course.
Ahhhh CHOO!!!
Sorry.
Hand me a virtual Kleenex, please.
I have a genetically-borne allergy to pure bullshit.
No matter what asshole is doing the shitting.
Later…
AG