We bury our greatest fears. In their place we erect symbolic ones, totems from our primitive past, which we then bash and conquer “symbolically” in order to make ourselves feel better. Reality doesn’t change. The reality inside our heads does. Right now, there’s a huge publicity blitz on the internet designed to make you think [...]
Posts Tagged ‘media’
Proles versus Elites: the battle rages on!
It is true that egalitarianism has given room to all opinions, which include the delusions of grandeur of those who would have it otherwise. We all imagine ourselves as heralds of Truth and kings in palaces if given the chance. In our lives we wish for a chance to assume a greater role – an [...]
White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Race Riots to America, by Colin Flaherty
White Girl Bleed a Lot:The Return of Race Riots to America by Colin Flaherty 115 pages, BookBaby, $6 We trust our newspapers, who have a profit interest in reporting things we like to read, to interpret that interest as a mandate for telling the truth as they see it. However, as we find out with [...]
Leftists deceive on press bias
The standard leftist “narrative,” or explanation of reality contrary to the facts, is that a vast right-wing conspiracy controls all business, media and social functions. You must rebel against this, or you’re part of the enemy. They like to claim that this right-wing conspiracy loses sleep at night trying to find new ways to target [...]
Food for thought
From Jesus to Wall Street
I value citizenship
American citizenship used to mean something. We live under a federal government that was designed in a very interesting and distinct way: certain functions were centralized, but many were given to the responsibility of the individual states. The way this country was colonized and eventually taken over, and due to its sheer size, each state [...]
Modern fantasy lands
I indulged in the spectacle of the Super Bowl a couple of months back. It is, after all, an American tradition. Some things I noticed made me laugh, but this quote from the winning quarterback was just hilarious: “Four years ago, who ever thought this would be happening?” said Brees, the game’s Most Valuable Player. [...]
New boss, same as the old boss
People think the media has changed rapidly. It’s the generational gap at work: Having graduated high school in the 1990s, I now think that what kids are getting into in the 2000s is insanity. Same will be true of people who are graduating now looking down at the class of 2020: “It wasn’t the same [...]
The short story
The art of the modern short story can be difficult to grasp. The idea seems to be to replicate the theme, mood, and consistency in a novel, even exploring character development, but keeping it short and thus, perhaps, leaving more to the imagination of the reader. One doesn’t whip through a short story collection; you [...]
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