Thinking out Loud (8)
We are all being swept along by a vast Niagara of information that we seem powerless to resist. Those who try to raise a voice of reason are simply drowned out by the roar of the falls.
With so much easily available information at our fingertips, we tend to get lazy and stop questioning, filtering, and evaluating that information for ourselves. Soon we are nothing more than a random collection of ephemeral ideas...
Everybody needs a code they can live by - a set of principles direct them; a few proven truths to point the way; an anchor or two to hold them fast in the storm...
Is more tolerance the answer for our morally fractured society?
I used to have an old CB radio that featured a “Squelch” button...
In a way, everyone in the world is a latent radical.
The news media of our day have become little more than mercenaries in a global proganda war.
We don’t belt out ‘Joy To The World’ because we’re so excited about a slightly improved lifestyle! It’s not just because we just love singing the same old songs every year. And it’s not because we’re just pumped about lights and trees and presents!