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| Patrick L. Booth |
When we do these things, we really aren't trying to be mean or actually mislead. It's the normal environment we are raised in and it makes it harder for some to actually learn critical thinking and become able to separate lies from reality. It makes some people more gullible as they just don't expect those things they've grown up to trust to actually be lying to them.
Politicians lie. We expect it but sometimes we don't think critically enough about their claims and statements. Some politicians lie more than others. As Lincoln said, "You can lie (Fool) all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool (lie to) all the people all the time." Might be a true statement. But there are some politicians that lie all the time and we just accept it. Trump is a liar of note. Lots of his statements were exaggerations of fact and those are lies of a sort. Itty Bitty Joe Biden lies, all the time, and democrats seem to believe most of what he says. In fact, the entire democrat philosophy of socialism is one BIG LIE that they repeat endlessly and lots of people believe that.
The supposed desired end of education in our schools is a person who can make good critical decisions and understand the consequences of those decisions. At least that is what most teachers are taught. But all understanding and education depends upon good, honest facts. When we are fed a diet of mis-statements, lies, and incorrect facts, we aren't able to make good decisions.
Critical thinking requires being able to back up decisions with good data, otherwise you are merely stating an opinion which may or may not be right and accurate depending upon one's experience and foreknowledge of the subject at hand. If all you see and hear are merely opinions not clearly backed up with honest data, one begins to think all opinions are of equal value, a lie in and of itself. Most of the reasoning for education is to train people in how to make those decisions on a regular basis. When textbooks and teachers fail to present real, honest facts and produce only opinions, students lose the ability to understand the subjects at hand and become mislead.
Same thing with politics. If all one hears are opinions without facts then whose opinion you accept as correct depends upon what you have learned and experienced previously or whose opinion you are able to FIND facts to support. This is where free speech comes into play. If the only things you can learn are tainted and all the facts are not available then decisions become bad based upon false information.
This past presidential election was tainted in many ways because the very engines we used to base decisions upon were directed and tainted by the BIG TECH companies, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Those companies knew exactly what they were doing and they got the results they wished by directing inquires to where they wanted them to go based on the information they already knew were there because they put it there. Did you get that? Decisions were based upon the opinions of the BIG TECH companies because they directed people to the sites and information they controlled.
When these BIG TECH companies were formed, they said they would not be tainting information nor publishing information but would be honest search engines that allowed people to see whatever they wanted and to go where ever they wanted. They lied. Some politicians noted that and spoke out against them. The BIG TECH companies then retaliated by directing inquiries to negative areas concerning those disfavored pols and positive sites for favored pols. Thus they managed to alter the outcome of an election. If allowed they will become the main arbiters of decisions our government makes as well.
There are lots of people who have awakened to these facts and are looking for ways to get away from those arbitrary BIG TECH companies. That has led to the formation of alternate companies such as "PARLOR" which just happen to be using the computer servers another BIG TECH company controlled, AMAZON. So they shut down Parlor because it was competing against the interests of BIG TECH. The GOP and Trump wanted to change the laws the govern BIG TECH which would have decreased the influence they have had.
BIG TECH does not want to lose influence as that would also cost them monies so they carefully crafted computer engines that would "correct" or dampen "false" information or opinions they did not want the public to have access to and we no longer may find those negative opinions on the popular BIG TECH platforms. Some people think that is dishonest and want to break up BIG TECH or force them to be less discerning and more open to opinions they do not share. That might work.
It used to be that newspapers had investigative reporters that would dig into claims and facts then inform the public as to their findings. When the internet came along, it became a lot easier for people to find information across the internet so paper circulation decreased. As TV became ubiquitous and the arbiters of our daily news consumption, the networks began to be the arbiters of opinions as well. Now BIG TECH, TV, and the internet are intermingled with only local TV and local news actually bothering to investigate (and only on local scales) so what we hear and see on TV as well as the internet are merely what BIG TECH wants us to see and hear. That is a lot of control of the information that people use for decisions.
We see the results in a President who hardly was ever in public and rarely had to answer hard questions because BIG TECH knew they could control not just him but the decisions being made to elect him regardless of his actual philosophy and background. The public really does not know much of anything about itty bitty Biden, a socialist politician who accomplished damned little in more than 40 years of public life but whose name recognition was high because he'd been the VP of a well known president. He favors BIG TECH and is hiring their mangers for government positions so public decisions will be decided by the arbiters of BIG TECH.
Some people are going to say, "SO WHAT. They have the information so they should be able to make good decisions." In fact, the decisions they will make will favor their sources regardless of the public good and those sources have shown themselves to be selfishly socialistic in many ways. BIG TECH favors Wall Street and themselves in a very fascistic way.
They favor open borders so they can have cheap labor at the expense of American Citizens. They are against the growth of wages because that would cost them monies. They are for stringent environmental laws to help shore up their own BIG TECH companies which will devalue the dollar, cause expenses to rise, increase the cost of living, and decrease the quality of life. They are also largely atheists, anti-religion, anti-gun, and think the Constitution should be merely a suggestion rather than the law of the land. Since they have been writing and talking about their plans and philosophy for some time, information about their beliefs and desires is available, if they let you see it.
I am ending this before it gets too tedious to read but I'll continue this train of thought sometime in the near future.
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Patrick "PL" Booth is a contributor to the ARRA News Service. He is a constitutional conservative blogger at The View from Blue Eye.
Tags: Lies, Lies, and more Lies, PL Booth, The Blue Eye ViewTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
Politicians lie. We expect it but sometimes we don't think critically enough about their claims and statements. Some politicians lie more than others. As Lincoln said, "You can lie (Fool) all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool (lie to) all the people all the time." Might be a true statement. But there are some politicians that lie all the time and we just accept it. Trump is a liar of note. Lots of his statements were exaggerations of fact and those are lies of a sort. Itty Bitty Joe Biden lies, all the time, and democrats seem to believe most of what he says. In fact, the entire democrat philosophy of socialism is one BIG LIE that they repeat endlessly and lots of people believe that.
The supposed desired end of education in our schools is a person who can make good critical decisions and understand the consequences of those decisions. At least that is what most teachers are taught. But all understanding and education depends upon good, honest facts. When we are fed a diet of mis-statements, lies, and incorrect facts, we aren't able to make good decisions.
Critical thinking requires being able to back up decisions with good data, otherwise you are merely stating an opinion which may or may not be right and accurate depending upon one's experience and foreknowledge of the subject at hand. If all you see and hear are merely opinions not clearly backed up with honest data, one begins to think all opinions are of equal value, a lie in and of itself. Most of the reasoning for education is to train people in how to make those decisions on a regular basis. When textbooks and teachers fail to present real, honest facts and produce only opinions, students lose the ability to understand the subjects at hand and become mislead.
Same thing with politics. If all one hears are opinions without facts then whose opinion you accept as correct depends upon what you have learned and experienced previously or whose opinion you are able to FIND facts to support. This is where free speech comes into play. If the only things you can learn are tainted and all the facts are not available then decisions become bad based upon false information.
This past presidential election was tainted in many ways because the very engines we used to base decisions upon were directed and tainted by the BIG TECH companies, Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Those companies knew exactly what they were doing and they got the results they wished by directing inquires to where they wanted them to go based on the information they already knew were there because they put it there. Did you get that? Decisions were based upon the opinions of the BIG TECH companies because they directed people to the sites and information they controlled.
When these BIG TECH companies were formed, they said they would not be tainting information nor publishing information but would be honest search engines that allowed people to see whatever they wanted and to go where ever they wanted. They lied. Some politicians noted that and spoke out against them. The BIG TECH companies then retaliated by directing inquiries to negative areas concerning those disfavored pols and positive sites for favored pols. Thus they managed to alter the outcome of an election. If allowed they will become the main arbiters of decisions our government makes as well.
There are lots of people who have awakened to these facts and are looking for ways to get away from those arbitrary BIG TECH companies. That has led to the formation of alternate companies such as "PARLOR" which just happen to be using the computer servers another BIG TECH company controlled, AMAZON. So they shut down Parlor because it was competing against the interests of BIG TECH. The GOP and Trump wanted to change the laws the govern BIG TECH which would have decreased the influence they have had.
BIG TECH does not want to lose influence as that would also cost them monies so they carefully crafted computer engines that would "correct" or dampen "false" information or opinions they did not want the public to have access to and we no longer may find those negative opinions on the popular BIG TECH platforms. Some people think that is dishonest and want to break up BIG TECH or force them to be less discerning and more open to opinions they do not share. That might work.
It used to be that newspapers had investigative reporters that would dig into claims and facts then inform the public as to their findings. When the internet came along, it became a lot easier for people to find information across the internet so paper circulation decreased. As TV became ubiquitous and the arbiters of our daily news consumption, the networks began to be the arbiters of opinions as well. Now BIG TECH, TV, and the internet are intermingled with only local TV and local news actually bothering to investigate (and only on local scales) so what we hear and see on TV as well as the internet are merely what BIG TECH wants us to see and hear. That is a lot of control of the information that people use for decisions.
We see the results in a President who hardly was ever in public and rarely had to answer hard questions because BIG TECH knew they could control not just him but the decisions being made to elect him regardless of his actual philosophy and background. The public really does not know much of anything about itty bitty Biden, a socialist politician who accomplished damned little in more than 40 years of public life but whose name recognition was high because he'd been the VP of a well known president. He favors BIG TECH and is hiring their mangers for government positions so public decisions will be decided by the arbiters of BIG TECH.
Some people are going to say, "SO WHAT. They have the information so they should be able to make good decisions." In fact, the decisions they will make will favor their sources regardless of the public good and those sources have shown themselves to be selfishly socialistic in many ways. BIG TECH favors Wall Street and themselves in a very fascistic way.
They favor open borders so they can have cheap labor at the expense of American Citizens. They are against the growth of wages because that would cost them monies. They are for stringent environmental laws to help shore up their own BIG TECH companies which will devalue the dollar, cause expenses to rise, increase the cost of living, and decrease the quality of life. They are also largely atheists, anti-religion, anti-gun, and think the Constitution should be merely a suggestion rather than the law of the land. Since they have been writing and talking about their plans and philosophy for some time, information about their beliefs and desires is available, if they let you see it.
I am ending this before it gets too tedious to read but I'll continue this train of thought sometime in the near future.
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Patrick "PL" Booth is a contributor to the ARRA News Service. He is a constitutional conservative blogger at The View from Blue Eye.
Tags: Lies, Lies, and more Lies, PL Booth, The Blue Eye ViewTo share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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