If, as Citizen Hearst is supposed to have said, "news" is defined as "something somebody doesn’t want printed" -- the rest being advertising -- then this must be all the more true of the eu-angelion, AKA Good News.
So, who doesn't want the good news propagated? For there are always forces in the world who want to spike the story. For example, a quick google search reveals that 28 of the first 31 popes were martyred. This looks to me like a pattern.
And another quick search claims a current annual toll of over 100,000 Christian martyrs, or one dead Christian every five minutes. I wonder if this dys-angelion -- bad news -- is ignored by the same worldly powers interested in quashing the Good News?
Usually, if it bleeds it leads, but only if the right people are bleeding. Instead, our media turns this reality on its head and claims the real problem is white male Christians, even though these same white male Christians are responsible for the most affluent, diverse, and tolerant country -- and civilization -- in existence. It's enough to make one suspect the work of diabolical epistemophobic forces or something.
Back when I was a liberal, I was a fervent supporter of freedom of speech. I haven't changed, but now only white supremacist spreaders of disinformation are malevolent enough to cherish and champion the First Amendment.
Now, what is journalism, anyway? According to our tightlipped friend Nicolás,
News stories are the substitute for truths.
I give zero pinocchios to that claim. In another aphorism, our ironic friend says that
Events begin to interest me when the press forgets them.
But not just the press -- or Big Media -- how about Big Education as well? In other words, journalism is just the tip of the informational assberg.
For starters, all of these journalists are credentialed products of Big Education. Therefore, not only do we have a class in charge of the Narrative that knows nothing, it also doesn't know it knows nothing, and is thus wholly un-self-aware: ignorance of ignorance, or ignorance2.
Which accounts for that distinct combination of hypertrophic arrogance + absence of self-awareness of Big Journalists, the former always dialed up to 11, the latter always frozen at zero.
There's a name for this: end-stage Dunning-Kruger, which is apparently incurable, since it is the very disease that resists its own treatment, or the Lie that is hardened against the penetration of Truth. Really, it is psycho-spiritual AIDS.
The good news is that more and more people are aware of this, which is why trust in Big Media is at an all time low. You'd think that Big Media might want to cover this breaking news and perhaps make a little adjustment, but recall its definitional absence of self-awareness and epic arrogance.
Instead, it's our fault for not trusting them to spoon-feed us the Narrative, and for spreading all the misinformation, whether it's about Brandon's senility, or Hunter's laptop, or the racial skew of crime statistics, or the actual causes of Putin's Price Hike.
What is this Narrative, and how did it get here? What accounts for its truly insane content and dogged persistence? Because it very much reminds me of the psychological projections of a religious cult that serve as a simpleminded interpretive key for all of reality, while simultaneously shielding the projectors who co-create it from anything that might challenge it.
Once you start to examine it, it's quite fascinating, because it looks to me like garden variety mental illness, only on a collective scale. But this begs the question of what mental illness is. For example, we are said to be experiencing a mental health crisis. Okay, I'll bite: what's mental health?
You'll soon find out that it's very much like the innocent question behind Matt Walsh's must-see documentary, What is a Woman?; nor are the two questions unrelated, for all of the interviewees who cannot answer the question aren't just ignorant -- obviously, since you can't really not know what an adult female is -- but in my view quite clearly mentally ill, if not diabolically influenced.
You heard me: if you can't say what a woman is, there are obviously some powerful forces at work in your psyche preventing the perception of such a rudimentary truth. If I understand biology correctly, every mammal had a mother, or they wouldn't be here.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the same powers and principalities that prevent a man from knowing what a woman is, also prevent him from understanding what the Constitution says, what the transgender suicide statistics say, what criminal statistics say, what the ineffectiveness of masks and lockdowns says, etc.
I'd like to delve more deeply into the ontology of these forces, and what it suggests about our Cosmos, but I'm out of time.
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