The Forest for the Trees

Part of the reason I titled my blog “Smoke and Mirrors” is that we need to stay conscious and awake in order to see the forest for the trees. That means that people must awaken to truth. That means everyone must get woke. If you ain’t woke your asleep with the sheep.

What does that mean exactly, to see the forest for the trees? That idiom means that the parts distract you from understanding the entirety. You can’t really see the whole picture because you are preoccupied with the details and fail to see the bigger picture.

I have always professed that the mass media is simply the PR arm of the government. Ever since Reagan removed the “Fairness Doctrine”, things have gotten out of hand. The Fairness Doctrine was introduced by the FCC in 1949, at the advent of broadcast television, was the policy put in place that in order to hold an FCC broadcaster license one was required to present information with opposing viewpoints reflecting the differing views of the public at large. To help the people see the forest for the trees.

But Rupert Murdoch of the FOX News empire and Reagan had a different view in mind. Murdoch, who is from Australia, couldn’t get his right winged political news idea to be approved in his home country so he came to the United States. Through lobbyists and large monetary exchanges to political players of the day he finally got his vision approved. That view has manifested in the dumbing down of intelligence in America that has become measurable throughout the world.

Now, through corporate mergers and acquisitions, all of the variable major news networks are owned and controlled by only 6 billionaire parties making things near impossible to see the forest for the trees. This saying signifies the trees are obscuring the fact that they collectively form a forest. Figuratively it means you are lost in the maze of carefully designed details and are no longer capable to discern that there is indeed something larger actions behind what’s apparent.

The media doesn’t help its viewers discern both sides of a story. They are no longer legally liable to. Now, through talking heads and politically charged stories from both sides of the political aisle we have a very divided and uneducated populace that has carefully been designed to see only what the right or left side wants people to see. Nothing else. Therefore, having a discussion can be a minefield of mis and dis information. So, the ONLY information that should or can be discussed in a reasonable fashion is how a party votes. Not what a politician says, but the votes that those politicians or specific party cast in order to make the laws that govern the American body politic.

This brings me to my point. People must step back from their beliefs and try to see things as they are and not how the media they choose to follow, watch, or read from tells them what to think. People must step back and view circumstances as they actually unfold due to the policies that their political parties have created through the results of their decisions, not what they have stated on a news station or on a talk show. It’s all about the votes and the subsequent policies that are the result of those votes. Period.

As an example, when we have reached a point where assault weapons are able to cross state lines and be used to murder innocent people, but women cannot cross state lines for their own health related issues. That’s when you know that the one political party has succeeded in turning America into a fascist theocracy.

When one political party has succeeded in being the sole decision maker on what books one can be read or what words can be said by others, due to the parties defined religious dogmatic beliefs you know that one political party has succeeded in turning America into a fascist theocracy.

There is not logical argument out of this.