Miss Information

 

Isn’t she lovely? She has won our hearts and minds and we are happy to listen to her. She is a siren of truth or fiction that we believe whatever she says because it fits our prejudices.

What was accepted as dedicated investigated journalism presented by trained reported and editors are now someone’s opinion mounted on a video podcast using whatever sources they provide to backup their announcement theory.

Public education is supposed to teach you how to read, write and calculate logical answers to problems. The church is supposed to teach to morals of right and wrong. The family is supposed to teach you common sense to not touch a hot stove or look both ways before you cross the street.

Then you find friends who have different points of views, who were raised in different environments or cultures, with ideas that are different than anything you’ve heard before. What do you decide?

Fact or fiction?

We enjoy getting lost in fantasy as entertainment to what we know doesn’t exist, but we buy the merch and will continue to follow the fiction in graphic comics, novels, movies, television to the point where reality and sci-fi blur.

Fact, supposedly backed up by research and scientistic data, is the truth until new study results arrives to question the previous established proclamations from experts in their fields.

Is wine good or bad for your health? Depends on who you listen to. The use of fermented fruit has been with us since time was recorded. Even the animal liked it. We make toast at formal affairs with a glass of grape and celebrate the winning of a football game like a bunch of intoxicated animals ravaging the neighborhood under the accepted influence of alcohol.

Tomorrow, unless you mailed in your ballot, we will line up, show our ID, get a piece of paper, make our mark and get a sticker that shows we participated in the democratic process.

Hopefully the $10b (that is with a B) spent on mailers and electronic firehose of questionable information about the election will be over. Was that money well spent?

Unfortunately, Miss Information will still be filling the airwaves with denials and possible violence, for the losers don’t go quietly. If it feeds our frustration or if it becomes late night comedy, time will tell.