Well put. Thank you for the clarity. I appreciate your effort towards elucidation.
I agree there has to be a neutral as possible position if only to teach. Finding that balance has, for the past 4 decades at least, been an impossibility, due to politics, forcing us to graduate students with absolute no sense of recent history or the current world they are being thrust into. I harbored anger over this at least til the end of my 20s, and I wasn’t the typical student. I have read the newspaper front to back daily since the start of my junior year (or since I was 16). I had read a dozen Chomsky books and Professor Zinn on my own in high school. I knew exactly how the educational system had failed us. I was so upset by the seemingly entire collection fo adults in the country failing to agree on what actually transpired in recent history that I started reading philosophy for an example of what great humans could be capable of, because there were clearly none in DC during the Clinton presidency.
I still contend that there is a large amount of fact that is discernible, that journalists used to rigorously parse thru. It’s not for my knowledge that I’m concerned, it’s the normalization of news-cycle theatre that concerns me. Case in point. Trumps assassination attempt. The fuck his ear got hit. Anyone who has ever shot an AR-15 will tell you that he wouldn’t have an ear left, even if it was just a graze, let alone be walking around with a normally “healed” ear less than two weeks later. It was staged and it cost that fireman his life and somehow everyone just moves on believing what they want. All for a photo op.
No 80 year old on this planet is going to heal a bruise that fast, anywhere on their body.
Regardless. I think we understand each other. Cheers.
Well put. Thank you for the clarity. I appreciate your effort towards elucidation.
I agree there has to be a neutral as possible position if only to teach. Finding that balance has, for the past 4 decades at least, been an impossibility, due to politics, forcing us to graduate students with absolute no sense of recent history or the current world they are being thrust into. I harbored anger over this at least til the end of my 20s, and I wasn’t the typical student. I have read the newspaper front to back daily since the start of my junior year (or since I was 16). I had read a dozen Chomsky books and Professor Zinn on my own in high school. I knew exactly how the educational system had failed us. I was so upset by the seemingly entire collection fo adults in the country failing to agree on what actually transpired in recent history that I started reading philosophy for an example of what great humans could be capable of, because there were clearly none in DC during the Clinton presidency.
I still contend that there is a large amount of fact that is discernible, that journalists used to rigorously parse thru. It’s not for my knowledge that I’m concerned, it’s the normalization of news-cycle theatre that concerns me. Case in point. Trumps assassination attempt. The fuck his ear got hit. Anyone who has ever shot an AR-15 will tell you that he wouldn’t have an ear left, even if it was just a graze, let alone be walking around with a normally “healed” ear less than two weeks later. It was staged and it cost that fireman his life and somehow everyone just moves on believing what they want. All for a photo op.
No 80 year old on this planet is going to heal a bruise that fast, anywhere on their body.
Regardless. I think we understand each other. Cheers.