EMPOWERED IGNORANCE
Now some people will not even accept my premise, so I will be talking to that wall inside them, maybe fold up a little note to tuck into a gap in the mortar. From my viewpoint, it is bad enough that the more intellectually engaged political party, has to pander to stupid-think. The other has a list of ongoing assumptions, most based on one overriding ideological slant, that never allows in contrary concepts for the same phenomenon, unless it is in their shoes.
Stupid-think here, is that whole menagerie of behaviors that one has to pass for the test of acceptability for public office. This ritual based image pandering is enforced by reactionary thought, which the media actually loves for all of its maddening contentiousness. We go through conceptually engineered “proofs” for how people look or seem; what they wear, their manner of speech, actually, whatever can be cast into that us and them mold. Presidents to be, must show how they like kids, for instance, since they surely were never one themselves. Liberals have to demonstrate their flag collection, since it is assumed for some reason that they hate America.
Now reactionaries have raised this whole process into an art form. If anyone seems to fail one of these instant poison pill pose test, an elaborate explanation of nuanced context and definition usually ensures, which itself, meets the quick judgement test of suspicious rationalism. It seems that an imagery but real loaded judgment, is achieved instantaneously. The following explanations made to counter it, more often than not, are made to seem as its most viable inditing evidence to true pose test followers.
There is not a saying that “ignorance is bliss” for nothing. Unfortunately, with ignorance holding a drug like power, the whole political process becomes reduced to its visual, or concept pandering acceptance level. This flag waving like instant identification, makes new approaches to, or refusal to play these litmus test games for cultural stupid-think, seem suspicious, simply for their non robot like “freedom” to answer the biased assumptions symbol..
This is particularly dangerous to freedom and democracy, for it opens the path for religious symbols or those of nationalism, to overwhelm the truthful dialogue. Welcome to election 2008.
THE CONTINUOUS IGNORANCE THAT GUARANTEES DISAPPOINTMENT
This is the nature of my malaise; the one sensible option I have to vote for, is itself compromised by all the stupid-think it must respond to. After a while, it seems that party itself has been conditioned to some degree of stupid-think. Oddly, it producing its own form of conformity to stupid-think, makes it look suspicious to that group whose whole world is contorted by these appearance test and conformity mandates. Many of which were contritely engineered in high brain power think tanks and focus groups. We now have a political system that uses the arts and sciences of deception, to direct perception into loaded mine fields of persuasion and tortured fact.
Somewhere recently, the report came to my attention that Jon Stewart’s Daily Show was considered the most reliable source of news. I thought; Really? Well on that show, they often make a point of calling it a fake news show. But just today I saw why it may well be a source of actual news, even though it treats it in ways established news shows had not until recently.
On the show today they buttressed my opinion here. I had started this piece the day before, only to have my jaw drop at the examples of blatant hypocrisy they showed right on tape. These were positions on issues that were what they were regardless of context, supposed absolutes, but when the shoe was on the other foot, melted away into accusations made toward their opponents. The only solid ground left was manipulations opportunism itself. No moral or ethical truisms whatsoever.
They showed the critical clips the conservatives, including Palin, recently had during the Democratic Convention, or pontificated on to harassed presumed liberals. They contrasted these previous clips with their now opposite allegations for allegedly doing exactly what the liberals were accused of doing just days ago. From the Faux News unbalanced show host, to just another one on the right doing the same duplicitous self righteous pandering to their situation, this showed up clearly as duplicity in the now hypocritical contradictions.
Seems that on the right, they can lie about their opponents, then use those very same lies as positives for their own “side”, without any sense of a hypocrisy blatant to their “reasoning”. Observations from these talking heads seems made of positive and negative distrotions, and it never need be owned up to. It is the self serving atmosphere these proclamations create at the time, that gives deception its lasing perception from momentary opportunistic power over the ill informed or kept out of context audience.
Now I know the Democrats do their own exaggerations and one way thinking, but not in this nearly complete and all encompassing way; where nothing said in stark and utter self contradiction, carries anything but assumed benefit to their side. What is the nature of this conservative side then? Is this why one of these right wing deceivers claimed that they were not constrained by tedious fact and open journalistic rational analysis? They simply proclaim things, which are negative for your opponent and a glowing positive when appearing on your side. They do this unchecked reality twisting because it works on those kept in reality ignorance, yet presuming their own belief and apparent following a reliable absolute authority. This has terrible implications for the conservative mind, or the reality view of those who accept the conservative tenets seemingly so blindly. For where then, is there room for actual truth checking? There is not!
CITIZENS OF FAIRYLAND
Some citizens are assumed to live in this distorted and abstracted bubble of blind belief. I can see why it is such a valuable commodity; anything can be made a positive or a negative depending on what use the situations makes convenient to you. It is blind because it needs no truthful fact checks, just useful to the situation unchecked manipulation allegation, and subjects with unplugged critical minds, seemingly accepting whatever these leaders pump into the concept-o-sphere. This indicateds there are those unaware, or uncaring if these negatives just alleged of ones opponents, are positives now that they are apparently tagged on to your side.
This is not just politics, it is patently dishonest. It is not surprising that many a conservative belief, carries with it a disdain for the “liberal” or critically honesty probing media. This cult belief the right wing has of the “bad” liberal media, is really a tactic to curtail the critical inquiry of the conservative mind, and instead, have it cued in to manipulative buzz words and loaded phrases that push these deceptive arguments as fact, with no full vetting of the facts in context as they apply to all parties. Ignorance becomes cold hard currency.
It was truly stunning to see this smoke and mirror misrepresentation of fact now based on opportunistic cause, presented on the Jon Stewart Daily Show. That a convention has is its bread and butter be this blatant deceptive context maneuvering, says much about the rest of the news media. What? They cannot look at these leaders statements to see the corruption inherent to them? That would not be fair, as they define that these days. These days, fair considers lies being equal to the truth. Then you have held your journalistic objectivity to not measure statements to the value of their very source? No more investigations need be done, since by their very nature, someone will feel the truth itself is neither fair nor balanced. As they say for good reason in these matters; “The truth hurts.”, hence is patently unfair.
CASTING CONCEPTS INTO OPPORTUNISTIC RELATIVITY “MAKES” TRUTH LIES, AND LIES SEEM TRUTH
So this is the proud America many a conservative aspires to serve, speaking oppositely depending upon which side of the mouth they are speaking, the left or right? That a convention is held, just fine thank you very much, under this extreme shadow of intentional confusion, is a damming statement of some conservative leaders intentional or not deceptions. And, presumably, an audience that condones or even expects this sort of perversion of the truth to go on under their name, and their legacy of shame.
We have just endured these near 8 years of unbridled deception, and now the conservatives are going to run against their negative fantasy’s of liberals, and the many years of American deconstruction they have just plundered the commons with, both the social commons and the international/environmental one. The choice may be quite clear to thinking people, but to those who vote by assumption and blinded trust; you have nothing to lose but your own honest integrity, if you can locate it.
To think of all the hard work and sacrifice of generations of Americans, to have it reduced to belief
pandering and a contempt for objective fact checking, is indeed a shame. Yet it is a shame that is not owned up to, that is even quantified as faith or patriotic honor, makes these blatant deceptions all the worse.
Put America first? What a contemptuous assumption for all the rest of us. It is like “Support the Troops” was, presuming we automatically do not, for why then command it. This was a way to use the troops to hide behind for unseemly ends, using their love for America and selfless service, altering that motive to be construed as protecting flawed policy, and contempt for honest review of the issues at hand. These are bait and switch techniques of distracting truth from the playing field of perception. It is all too obvious why the conservative mind is so easily led astray, then left dangling off the cliffs of deception, blaming liberals for their predicament. They have no true ground to stand on, so lies and deception stands in for missing in action true moral values.
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