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Thoughts about Misinformation & Lies
16 years ago
So, for some time now I've been hooked on Alex Jones. I watched his latest hate-Obama-movie just the day before yesterday. I felt it in my stomach, that there was something wrong on inauguration day. It seemed like all the anger and suspision toward media and politicians just vanished. Suddenly the world was at peace? Obama is Jesus! No, that can't be right, there's still a war going on, isn't it? But could Obama resonably be blamed for this, this propaganda explosion?
On a personal side note, I felt the only presidential candidate I would have trusted to be straight with me was Ron Paul. If you have an issue with that, just google him and watch videos almost thirty years old. I don't think he's a turn-coat like the others.
Also, I really believed that 9/11 was an inside job. It made sense to me, because it does look like building seven was demolished in every film clip I've seen, but how can I know for sure, almost a decade later, that it's not all photo manipulation? I've learned that just because it makes sense to me and my particular kind of logic, it's not necesarily the truth. What should I think of this pdf for example?
http://www.jod911.com/WTC%20COLLAPS.....d%208-8-06.pdf
Can Mr. Brent Blanchard be trusted? Is he payed? Is he lying?
Even the issue of Global Warming! On one side there's the sunspots theorists, on the other the CO2 emission alarmists.
What is a person to believe? And more importantly, what am I, as a future parent going to teach my kids?
I thought of the only things I could trust within me, and made this little... shall we call it a poem? Tenets, if you will.
These are the wisdoms I've learned from an almost 25 year life span, they're mostly from video games ;P
'Do NOT feel discouraged, and never let FEAR get the better of you. Trust your INSTINCTS, question EVERYTHING, and always honor TRUTH! But remember that you could always be wrong.'
~Ale
On a personal side note, I felt the only presidential candidate I would have trusted to be straight with me was Ron Paul. If you have an issue with that, just google him and watch videos almost thirty years old. I don't think he's a turn-coat like the others.
Also, I really believed that 9/11 was an inside job. It made sense to me, because it does look like building seven was demolished in every film clip I've seen, but how can I know for sure, almost a decade later, that it's not all photo manipulation? I've learned that just because it makes sense to me and my particular kind of logic, it's not necesarily the truth. What should I think of this pdf for example?
http://www.jod911.com/WTC%20COLLAPS.....d%208-8-06.pdf
Can Mr. Brent Blanchard be trusted? Is he payed? Is he lying?
Even the issue of Global Warming! On one side there's the sunspots theorists, on the other the CO2 emission alarmists.
What is a person to believe? And more importantly, what am I, as a future parent going to teach my kids?
I thought of the only things I could trust within me, and made this little... shall we call it a poem? Tenets, if you will.
These are the wisdoms I've learned from an almost 25 year life span, they're mostly from video games ;P
'Do NOT feel discouraged, and never let FEAR get the better of you. Trust your INSTINCTS, question EVERYTHING, and always honor TRUTH! But remember that you could always be wrong.'
~Ale
In truth, I thought I had solid reasons for believing it. What I actually had was a complete misunderstanding of the facts, and an unwillingness to critically explore my beliefs (due mostly, I believe, to the mental pain of being wrong). All that was undone in... 2010(?) or so, by a single dismissive gesture from a person I respected as an intellectual. After that, it became easier to accept that I could be wrong than to accept that they were, and then it all just crumbled away.
...how global warming got swept up into it, I have no idea. I think I might have just been an idiot.
I couldn't tell you my values changed, or antyhing that drastic. I still value the same things as I always have. Maybe that foundation was what allowed such an easy escape?
Maybe there are still things I believe today that are just as wrong...
Maybe I should just remove this journal entry...