People tend to walk around with polarized lenses on. They create division where none needs exist. The “left” complains about the bias of “right” media- the “right” complains the same of the “left.” Both are valid. Combine the two and what do we get... A common and shared complaint that there is too much selective, biased, irresponsible and unprofessional media. That journalistic standards and integrity have all but died, and that sponsor funded editorials and corporate backed misinformation is the new standard. It’s not a problem with one “side” or the other. Our media is broken all around, and with a broken information system how are people supposed to get accurate and even handed information to actually form their views on? It’s all fiction. Our politics have become an argument about Chuck Norris vs Shaggy or Saitama vs Goku because we are arguing over things that don’t exist as they do outside the mythos created for them. More information than most of human history and 90% is bull.
This harkens back to a time in the US in which a cultural war was waged against "hyphenated" americans. Starting around the 1860's-1950's (Rough Estimate) many of the war hawks after the civil war professed more and more into the belief of manifest destiny, while the american frontier began to close and be entirely claimed by the end of the 1800's. With the closing of the frontier the warhawks looked to imperialism, for an extremely bried anount of time, which culminated into the Spanish American war. The war was fought over Cuba. In the end the United states ceded any claim to the island granting it it's freedom but kept the phillipines. The war saw huge sections of the population being outright against the war, especially the hyphenated americans. Irish-americans were some of the most heavily targeted people by this cultural shift, not including african americans as they were always marginalized.
Yes. Kudos metalman. Sometimes I feel like people don’t care much for history at all- save when it’s concenient for them- but it’s interesting and important stuff, and I enjoyed your post.
I want to make an infographic or something of the like to better convey my comments. The character limit makes it hard to go into detail along with the fact that i ramble on about tidbits that don't necessarily directly correlate with my original statement but will eventually come full circle. The issue with that tends to be that i tend to take too long to get full circle.
It’s ok. I can’t recall reading anything from you which wasn’t interesting. Outside of court, the board room, and debate halls, conversations can wander. A genuine exchange of ideas is about more than being succinct. An intelligent reader will connect the pieces together to form a complete picture. But- infographics are cool too, and as a serial text wall poster I can understand not having the time or inclination to write essays. I happen to have the time, little boys through the day since I don’t have a real job but am imaginary one- so I fill the idle time with this. If I were still at one of my real jobs I wouldn’t have the time. Lol.
Yes. I also strongly doubt that whoever wrote this would feel that way if there were no diplomatic translators or intelligence operatives, special agents, etc. who could speak a language. Learning other languages is seldom anything but a good thing- but one might even say ESPECIALLY an enemies language which could save your life and give you the means to understand their conversations and maybe- with a little luck even communicate and find common ground to make peace.
2) Freedom of worship
3) Freedom from want
4) Freedom from fear
I just learned something new today. Thank you.
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