Damn Lies

First up today is a post by David Strom at Hot Air entitled This Is a Mystery to Me. There are a lot of mysteries in life. For example, why, when two cars are traveling together, and there is space to get into the lane they are traveling in either in front or behind them, someone always wants to get right in between them? It's a mystery but if you ever do any team driving, you will understand that this is a thing.

However, the mystery that Strom mentions is: Why, after having been lied to by the mainstream media, do people still gullibly belive them? He points out that he understands that no one can personally research every single thing one hears. A person must trust someone, at least to some degree.

It is practical to do so for many reasons. First of all, there are only so many hours in the day, making it neither practical nor desirable to spend hours fact-checking everything you hear, even on important matters. Almost everything we believe, outside our direct experience, comes from sources we trust.

Have you been to the moon? How do we know that our little robots have actually landed on Mars? Does Paraguay exist? I haven't been there, after all. It could all be a hoax! But I trust that my beliefs reflect reality, because I trust the testimony of others.

Have you measured the diameter of the Earth? I haven't. I have a pretty good idea of how to do it with simple tools (the Greeks did it millennia ago), but I accept what I was taught because I have no reason not to.

So, he makes the case that as a practical matter, we must trust some of the things we hear. But then there is this:

What I cannot understand for the life of me is why people do not become enraged with the white-hot fury of the sun when they are confronted by the fact that they have been betrayed--utterly betrayed--by people they trusted. It is an absolute mystery to me. Everybody in America by now should have realized that the Establishment has betrayed them, and yet few people are outraged.

One of the memes you see all the time is, "You may hate the media, but you don't hate them enough."

That is absolutely correct—100%. You cannot possibly hate them enough because they betray you daily. They aren't mistaken. They aren't incompetent. All day, every day, they lie to you, knowingly and with malice. They sometimes tell the truth, but only if they like where it leads you.

Why aren't more people furious?

I suppose one reason more people don't hate them enough is that one doesn't want to seem to be one of those conspiracy whack-jobs. Mrs. PolyKahr likes to watch the local news and doesn't understand why I don't. I explain that every word out of their mouths is a lie, including the "a," "an," and "the." I watch only the weather, which I know they can't predict with real accuracy. She looks askance at me as if I am the in fact crazy, and of course, maybe I am. But maybe it is she who has not been paying attention.

Another reason is that all the lies coming in from every direction overwhelm a person's ability to care. One can only care about just so many things, after all. I care about God, my immediate family, securing the things we need to daily life, and friends I know personally. Far down the list of caring is the lying sack of sh** someone installed in the White House, his lying sack of sh** administration, Ukraine etc. And most of the things one is supposed to care about, like climate change, are made up hoaxes. The overwhelming nature of so many lies enervate a person and leaves them with a sense of ennui.

Strom writes about the Covid lies that were perpetrated on the American people, and the absolute hatred that was poured out by so many on their fellow citizens. These will never be punished, though calling for the gassing of innocent people is technically a crime, whether its people who don't wish to be jabbed or Jews. I have the same feelings about Hillary Clinton, who broke the law, members of the DoJ, FBI, ATF and IRS who broke the law. Come to think of it, the whole two-tiered system where people with the "correct" political party seem to go scot-free while those with the "incorrect" political persuasion get the book thrown at them offends my Christian senses since God commanded the Israelite judges to judge impartially.

I urge gentle readers to read the whole article, and wonder as does Strom, why people seem so passive in the face of such monstrous lies.