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- mg333
One more moment of profundity from me, because I really can't help myself.
As somewhat of a counterpoint to my disgust with the election results, there’s definitely one thing that we can all do regardless of who won. It’s simple.
Believe in truth. Demand truth. Empower truth. Accept nothing but truth. And shun everything that isn’t truth no matter how excited or pleased it makes you to hear a lie you want to accept as truth.
We’ve arrived at this point, for better or worse, because a great number of people across the country are fed a study stream of falsehoods, exaggerations, and total lies. They then absorb and accept that lack of truth, which in turn empowers and emboldens candidates and the media to continue operating according to an agenda in which truth is not the primary motivator for a statement, opinion, or stance. Repeat the cycle infinitely and your opinions and decisions are thus based on absolute nonsense.Truth is non-partisan. It’s an element of human existence we depend on to know right from wrong, and good from bad. And we’re suffering as a country because of the lack of it no matter who won this election. We should really take a moment to wonder how many votes were cast on the basis of so many truth-less statements, so many lies, so many misconceptions about what the next four years cold hold for the country regardless of whether a candidate, a surrogate, a spokesman, a reporter, a journalist, or a blogger said them.
It’s depressing and worrisome when people make decisions based on the lack of truth they are presented with. No need to get into examples, but both sides in this election are at fault. We need to demand better of ourselves, our leaders, and those who want to lead, and especially those who are in the business of delivering news that should be honest, impartial, and objective to anyone who chooses to pay attention.
Here’s the rub: You have to accept this simple concept to exist in this world. If you’re willing to accept a lack of truth and honesty, you’re doing life wrong. Simple as that. And when you make it obvious, you’ll be judged by those around for you it. That’s not an attempt to offend anyone, it’s just a simple fact of life. People pay attention to what you do, how you think, and what you portray of yourself publicly. Prove to people that you are unable to think logically, and they’ll form an opinion of you that you probably don’t like.
We need to turn this around. We need to usher in a new day in which everyone regardless of political affiliation aligns around the need for us to collectively be better than this and to demand better than this. To look at a statement from a candidate and deduce that the statement is true or false based on facts, logic, and complete lack of emotion, and from that to formulate an opinion or choice that makes sense.
Remember when everyone collectively cared about our greater good following 9/11? This is one of those moments. However cliche it sounds, people need to wake up and demand better. I can’t begin to imagine how much better we’d all feel, how much more we’d all respect each other, how much more we’d all achieve together if that were possible. If we could separate fact from fiction and make informed decisions rooted in truth and logic. We would all be better people for that.
A growing division in our society is rooted in this, and it’s going to be hard to stomach and just as hard to change. I don’t know who the figureheads for that change will be, I don’t know how many will even care, but it’s worth a shot.
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- Kim Dotcom
2016 is the year hackers became journalists & journalists became hacksinstrmntl - Truth doesn't matter to Trump.BusterBoy
- But you get my point though, right? It should matter enough to society that Trump, or anyone like him, is roundly and decidedly shunned from the get-go.mg33