Media Deception

We're living in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, replicating the decadent times of the Roman empire, except more high-tech and on a global level. This is what we're observing.

The rich get obscenely richer either by environmental or monetary theft or by media promotion and advertising. We tune in at prime time after a hard day at work to watch the mega-secure buy houses, clothing, jewellery and luxury goods. The media records their every move from their butt implants to their real estate appointments - singers, movie stars, sports heroes, entrepreneurs, property tycoons and mainstreamed porn stars. If it weren't for the media, we wouldn't know who the obscenely rich were. The ones they want us to know. We can name them, their children and their designer dogs.  

It's not only that these people in the media are fabulously rich and flaunt their wealth indiscriminately, but also a great percentage of them are psychopathic, decadent and criminal in their behavior, with little legal and social repercussion. Think of scum like Hugh Hefner, Cosby, Nygaard, Weinstein and thousands like them, drugging and raping women and getting away with it for years because of their stature and wealth. Or the pedophile and necrophiliac Sir Jimmy Savile who would make your skin turn pimply through the creep factor; he also got away with it for years. Why? Because I'm a star! I can do anything! Anything goes! Who needs values or morals? Many people were loath to speak up about their criminals because they knew no one would believe their stories. 

Who, in my estimation, most epitomizes narcissistic wealthy decadence? Who broke the mold for vulgarity and bad taste? Madonna, who I would love to see on a reality show being dragged behind a car naked as her nipples get razor burned and erased. Maybe she would finally put whatever's left away. She does nothing to elevate women and her talent is vastly over-rated. 

Accessorizing her look with three adopted black children, Madonna represents everything that is deplorable about American social culture and a good reason for other countries to mock American values. Her shows are obscene, she takes delight in offending, she's culturally insensitive and she takes revolting to a whole new subterranean sub-level. She's been seen on television sexually humping a desk to prove that she can do whatever she wants because she sure can't sing worth a damn. Never mind what impression you make on children, they don't matter! I can do whatever I want! I'm a star! 

How is all this deluge of virtual obscenity, and it's just not Madonna, being absorbed by children and what are the effects on their mental and spiritual growth? 

Television shows are not the naive Leave it to Beaver or Gunsmoke variety of yesterday. Television has changed by turning the camera on us, the average bloke and bonus - it's cheaper. Television now capitalizes on the dumb and vulnerable and their unknowing willingness to humiliate themselves for money. It's entertainment. We laugh as we watch dumb asses stumble awkwardly through their lives and do stupid shit. They're dumb, but smart enough, functional, with an intelligent quotient a bit over 90, so that we're not seen as laughing at retarded people. But it's close. 

Currently, the famous are the newly minted social misfits - poor white trash who have become famous, or infamous - usually from Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas or some backwater state where the highest level of education is grade five. It's a bottomless pit of theatre. If we are bored or embarrassed by their stupidity, we can turn the channel and watch the lifestyles of the fabulously wealthy as they go about their simple business of trying to decide which twenty-million-dollar house to buy and bonus, which fifteen-million-dollar yacht to sail to Monaco, while pontificates like George Clooney and Leonardo Dicaprio, who has yet to date anyone with pubic hair, tell us to cut back.  

In between all the madness, of course, is the advertising. Four to five minutes of sheer brainwashing every ten minutes, when the volume gets louder as dude burps and heads to the kitchen for another bowl of chips and another beer. Advertising - which usually consists of an ad for some sort of medical device or sleep aid or medication or a cruise vacation. How about those hemorrhoids! Wouldn't you like to go on a vacation! Be like the rich and famous!  

However, it's not only television media that is saturated with false advertising. It's everywhere. Walk down any street, city or country, and you won't see one building or tree trunk that isn't scarred with advertising.

Social med has squelched debate. Educated political journalists like John Pilger have been sidelined or silenced. Critical thinking and discussion has been muted. There is little to no sensible, truthful debate on television and when there is, it's a faux-debate usually hosted by a tired old network fart who asks no hard questions and whose guests are usually soft leather shoe salesmen. Pseudo-depth, plausible denial and falsehoods - that's how far you get with the network news. Make everyone think they heard something important. Hard-hitting interview, Fred! Instead, why not get world leaders to a conference table for open-mic discussions and have it broadcast live. Or - better yet for reality television and great ratings - set up a boxing ring and have world leaders duke it out in there instead of collecting billions and billions of dollars through taxes in order to support the rush to global annihilation? 

Where are the journalists and writers and local politicians, a people's forum, on television? Where is there a program or platform that could specifically bring world leaders together to resolve some of the world's most pressing problems, instead of meaningless photo ops at the White House?  Today's media has forced us to push our own vomit back down our collective throats and called it The Fear Factor. 

World leaders for important change have been silenced. There will never be another world leader on the scale of Gandhi or King or Malcolm X because those popular few who dared try to lead the people out of the darkness will be shot, poisoned or framed and thrown in jail. Whistleblowers like Julian Assange have shared this fate and he will be forgiven nor released. He exposed the American government's lies about Iraq, specifically the cover-up of an American Apache killing five men who turned out to be Iraqi journalists. That's not going on television. Kill three people in a mall and plead insanity and you may be out in fifteen years with good behavior and the trial will be on television for the benefit of our collective outrage and horror. Assange, however, uncovered too many lies and too many people were outraged, so he's in a dungeon, where he'll stay for the rest of his life.    

We're re-enacting the last days of the Romans through our excessive, gluttonous behavior, while millions in other countries starve or get hacked to pieces through civil war. We've been saying the end is coming forever, but currently we're stepping on the accelerator. We don't know who or what we are. Children are questioning their sexual identity, men are becoming women, women are becoming men, outrageous behavior has been normalized and social critics silenced.