LeTiss wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:38 am
I have grown extremely cynical in my later years
I believe this BLM movement is being fuelled and orchestrated by the media and Democrats, who together are desperate to defeat Trump in November
Similar thoughts have taken time up in my mental space too & in all honesty I have to agree with you. It's turning into, or maybe already has turned into a full blown political war. The fight for media propaganda allies is clear to see, the "Left" are winning this imo, CNN, Twitter, YouTube (although still on the fence a little) while the "Right" have Fox and I'm not sure what came of the Trump/Facebook meetings. Influence over the narrative imo is being sold by the media outlets to the highest bidding political party, you dont have to scroll down too far to find Trump tweeting "Its time to find a new media outlet" referring to Fox dishing out news he doesn't like, or calls "fake" - I actually think that the vast majority of the news, both Left & Right is either manipulated or just flat out BS.
The thing that pulls on my curiosity is tribalism. When I think about it, with the Left (as we believe) influencing the narrative on most MSM outlets & the Right just flat out denying their voices as "Fake News" then what it comes down to for both parties is playing their base, and with no 3rd party that could come sweeping in straight down the centre then things can only continue in one fierce direction.
I personally have no side, I prefer to take an overview approach and if something makes sense to me from either side then I'll listen to it, but with so much manipulation its hard to get through the noise, & let's face it, it's mostly noise. Social media goes hyper over even the smallest of issues, social media justice warriors jump from one bandwagon to the next... I do wonder sometimes if one day a 60 year old person is going to reflect back on their life and be suddenly hit with the realisation that they've been sat on their mobile phones for the past 40 years scrolling through an echo chamber and now their life has gone before them.