Have you ever tried to search a google image, especially anything controversial, and gotten a bunch of twisted, stupid lies dressed as indisputable facts? There is no rationality to them, only a blind assertion; it's almost as if the creator was trying to cast their imagined reality upon the world, in an attempt to persuade everyone to their views, despite what hardcore reality, really has to say on the matter. A picture, it seems, is worth a thousand, useless words.
Try typing "Capitalism" into your search engine, and you will see what I mean - unless you want to keep your cheery attitude. By the same token, try typing "Socialism" into your search engine, you will get the same infuriating results. Pictures, and to almost an equal extent, film, both share those irrational qualities that are the fibers of propaganda. I'm not saying that words are innately better, try typing either subject, "Capitalism" or "Socialism" into your search bar, and once you get past the dictionaries and wikipedia, you end up with nothing better than if you searched for images. It seems the public forum, is aflame with demagogues, soap box orators, political agitators, mongers of sedition, sycophants, and politicos that take up so much space on the news, TV, books, and especially the internet, that no room is left for reason to flourish. It is these insane conditions that inspire national calamity.
These nasty conditions played a huge part into why this blog was started in the first place. The purpose of this blog is to add sane argument into the public debates. Here hopefully, problems are handled in the forms of brief, logical treaties, rather than rabble rousing debates and speeches. If you disagree with the positions or arguments that are made here, don't yell and draw political cartoons and fill your Facebook feed with party bias slogans; rather, do what is done here, either write a rational critique in the comments section, or start your own platform like an op ed, a non-fiction book, or like what was done here, a blog.
If the majority of people took this approach to academia, to politics, to religion, to science, to anything and everything, then maybe we could get out of this Alice in Wonderland world, in which all the inhabitants are raving mad. Instead we'd have a world where, in classical ages past, disagreement brought discussion and built up something better, rather than disagreement carrying it's propaganda bludgeon in the left hand and playing "down low, too slow" with the right.
Try typing "Capitalism" into your search engine, and you will see what I mean - unless you want to keep your cheery attitude. By the same token, try typing "Socialism" into your search engine, you will get the same infuriating results. Pictures, and to almost an equal extent, film, both share those irrational qualities that are the fibers of propaganda. I'm not saying that words are innately better, try typing either subject, "Capitalism" or "Socialism" into your search bar, and once you get past the dictionaries and wikipedia, you end up with nothing better than if you searched for images. It seems the public forum, is aflame with demagogues, soap box orators, political agitators, mongers of sedition, sycophants, and politicos that take up so much space on the news, TV, books, and especially the internet, that no room is left for reason to flourish. It is these insane conditions that inspire national calamity.
These nasty conditions played a huge part into why this blog was started in the first place. The purpose of this blog is to add sane argument into the public debates. Here hopefully, problems are handled in the forms of brief, logical treaties, rather than rabble rousing debates and speeches. If you disagree with the positions or arguments that are made here, don't yell and draw political cartoons and fill your Facebook feed with party bias slogans; rather, do what is done here, either write a rational critique in the comments section, or start your own platform like an op ed, a non-fiction book, or like what was done here, a blog.
If the majority of people took this approach to academia, to politics, to religion, to science, to anything and everything, then maybe we could get out of this Alice in Wonderland world, in which all the inhabitants are raving mad. Instead we'd have a world where, in classical ages past, disagreement brought discussion and built up something better, rather than disagreement carrying it's propaganda bludgeon in the left hand and playing "down low, too slow" with the right.
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