New Directions

Personal circumstances have forced me to take a hiatus from blogging, but in my silence I've been able to reflect on things a bit. During my absence, I've come across some revelations that have led me to think of the world in an even more alarming light than before. It may affect the direction and overall tone of this blog. I guess time will tell.

The theme that presently captures my interest is the media's role in "informing" and shaping society. Though, admittedly, I first got the idea from a YouTube video, the ideas put forth there were still quite intriguing. The narrator made an analogy between the meanings of "culture" and "media" in the traditional sense and their meanings in the biological sense. To paraphrase, a culture is an artificial environment where an organism is exposed to a set of conditions within a media, which is altered and manipulated to yield a specific outcome. Thus culture in the societal sense entails the molding and shaping of people by feeding them artificial (i.e. "contrived") values, ideas, and beliefs through the media. My question is: what is the ultimate outcome and how will we, the organisms, be affected?

Social engineering and predictive programming are themes that I will likely revisit in future posts. Their premises lie in the belief that the "powers that be" (PTB) are using the media to herd us into manifesting certain behaviors that will benefit them to our detriment. I'm speaking in vague terms right now, but I'll go into more specifics when the time comes. For now, suffice it to say that my eyes have been opened--WIDE! I can now longer passively accept information that is spoon-fed to me. I now realize the importance of questioning the true purpose behind media-fed information and of asking who will benefit from the way it's being spun. Hopefully these future entries won't come off as paranoid or excessively skeptical. If so, then so be it. If more people questioned what they were told and were more critical of the information they were provided, perhaps this Titanic will have a chance of steering clear of that iceberg before it's too late. Again, time will tell....