Black and White Politics
Heavy hearts, can you hold our hands? The planets help you understand that light and dark are wrong and all that’s left is us…
Black and white aren’t really present in someone’s true ideology, and blaming groupthink is more precisely an issue rather than blaming some group as hegemonic entity; “white and black are wrong and oft, all that’s left is us.” Prioritise things that are in your control is good advice, as is “worry is a terrible waste of the imagination,” and it’s certainly a waste of time creating problems and ignoring solutions…
Reaching across the aisle isn’t so impossible IMO; on the ground political opinion (i.e. not dissemanated through media or talking heads) is anti-big business, less taxes, anti-war, better taxation, anti “guantanamo-style” torture, anti pedo, anti toppling and then planting friendly regimes, anti CIA, FBI, NSA, DoH (alphabet soup), are against pollution generally, and are against mitary action broadly.
Colloquially the meanings are made useless and inaccurate and imprecise since the news media is a prescriptive ideology meant to take the place of using one’s brain… Ideology implies there is a foundational reasoning rooted in psychological, ideated, contextualised, conceptual series of paradigms and axioms holding it together; thinking about what things mean to oneself is part of being an individual and have one’s own opinions…
These days, that’s a rarity, as the news media prescribes a binary choice between two halves of a false dichotomy in black and white, and in highly speculative terms.. the longer something is in the news cycle means it’s controversial, and while they propagandise their opinions, everyone gets in on it, and so there’s more poison in the well and no one ends up agreeing, and yet, there is such a plethora of opinions that one drowns in it…
This is a highly divisive and aggravating feedback loop, and while we all fight there’s a very real small group of people who are responsible, even if not conspiratorially, they are called many things… anything from statistically or theologically, the “one-percent” or “the Illuminati,” respectively, the “elite,” and pretty much the whole world knows about Epstein and agrees on that subject, and that ties into big business, union of corporate and state, forever in wars, child prostitution and sex slavery, etc., and I’m wondering why it’s so hard to have productive discussions. Who knows?
I would blame “news media” some and yet, the onus also lies on the people obsessing over the trend/tokenism/murder of the week. Why do we keep watching? The commentators run their mouths incessantly, most people don’t read past the headline, they often have flawed analysis, if not outright lies…
Again, political and theological philosophies are downstream from personal philosophies and beliefs/axioms… The people in charge, the news media, they do not resemble the people on the ground so to speak, let alone do the talking heads even divulge their true philosophies.. So why argue a divisive and prescribed opinion that didn’t come from oneself, yet, instead came from some warmonger, or some billionaire, or some politician, or anyone else? Think for yourself.
There’s this ridiculous idea that we need to be engaged in international politics, and yet that’s a terrible waste of time to engage in what had no bearing on my life or decision making processes. There’s no purpose in getting involved so directly.. The news media tells you what to think and how to feel, and it’s hardly worth your effort, at all…