Not a big fan of the news these days. Too much opinion, not enough fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it\u2019s sad that it\u2019s both sides \u2026 and that there are even sides, I mean, what happened, happened, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not necessarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Faux News claims the treasonous insurrection of Jan 6th<\/sup> was just \u2018Murricans exercising their rights to \u201cStop the Steal,\u201d no different from BLM protestors burning down Portand, OR (\u2018cuz Maine is just too dang far \u2014 hi Stephe! BTW \u201cThe Stand\u201d extended cut\/author\u2019s intent was the tits) and was not, in fact, an attempted coup by a sitting prez \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whereas SeeNotNews gets all hysterical re wrongs of the Right while ignoring misbehavior in their own camp (I see you<\/em>, Cuomo, and Lemon is aptly named) as well as any story where certain folks are the baddies gets the newslite treatment (that guy who did that thing in Brooklyn \u2014 subway shooter, if I recall \u2014 funny how fast that fell out the newscycle [maybe it was the negative body count \u2018Murica! Truck yeh!<\/em>] digress)<\/p>\n\n\n\n So anyways, not a lot of watching national news these days, because most of it is skewed, or lies, or slanted perception (thass ray-sis!<\/em>) and can never be sure of the actual truth, as opposed to the \u201ctruth\u201d presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simpler for me to remember CHRIST is the way, the truth and the life [John 14:6<\/em>}, no confusion there … it’s getting through the day-to-day that can be trying at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n W. Kamau Bell (claims to be a comedian without being funny but nevertheless appears somewhat perceptive) has a program on CNN, \u201cUnited Shades of America,\u201d where he asks interesting questions of random people to get a response \u2026 kind of like Candid Camera without the humor and the pranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n He asked some women if it was OK to say that American slavery was \u201cbad.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, I\u2019ve never owned a person, but I suppose from the perspective of the enslaver, slavery wasn\u2019t bad<\/em>, necessarily, but that it was actually pretty good \u2026 force someone else to make yourself rich, with the full faith, support and power of the government to do so.\u00a0 Nice nonwork, if you can get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUT but, I guess we\u2019re supposed to look at American slavery from a moral and residual viewpoint, and in that regard, methinks me can reasonably infer that it was pretty friggin\u2019 bad, whatwith the whole abduction of children, rape of women, castration\/burning\/murder of men \u2026 don\u2019t think there\u2019s any real way to \u201csugar\u201d coat that reality (heh<\/em>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nonetheless, some women on Bell\u2019s show said that it was bad to refer to slavery as bad, couldn\u2019t do that, because \u2026 well, because. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Which brings me to the my a point.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do we owe a debt to truth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or do we just \u201ccash me outside\u201d and OnlyFans it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess the real question is: how stupid do we want our children? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Somewheres around these parts I mentioned the debt of responsibility to progeny, and methinks \u2013 bear with me here (or not \u2026 byy-yeeee<\/em>) \u2014 that if we, the adult we, actively lie to our children about the truth of our shared past, don\u2019t we dumb down the kids solely for the feels?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don\u2019t know about you (Other Person You) but I\u2019d rather have a smart engineer building bridges, a smart doctor performing surgery, and a smart electrician wiring my house, over one that \u201cfeels good\u201d about him\/her\/themself and stupider than a box of feathers in a pillow factory (what? think on it) and truthful accounts of the horrors in American history is one of the debts we (adult we) owe our kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like financial literacy, historical literacy makes people better people, empathy actually works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No shame, not for anyone, just information, awareness, and contemplation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I think a debt of honesty is owed to us all, and one we owe to each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But as long as that debt remains unpaid, it continues to compound interest.\u00a0 And never the good kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not a big fan of the news these days. Too much opinion, not enough fact. And it\u2019s sad that it\u2019s both sides \u2026 and that there are even sides, I mean, what happened, happened, right? Not necessarily. Faux News claims the treasonous insurrection of Jan 6th was just \u2018Murricans exercising their rights to \u201cStop the … <\/p>\n