Land of The Ignorant and The Home of The Slave

It is Time to Educate and Revolt

Welcome, once again, my dear readers, and thank you for your support.  While I am no longer a young man, at 47 I am not yet an old man.  It wasn’t that long ago, in my childhood and young adulthood, that I remember a mainstream media (MSM) that at least pretended to inform the general public.  In portraying the role of information source, it wasn’t uncommon for the MSM to interview America’s rivals and enemies.  This valuable service lent the public a valuable glimpse of those who at least superficially opposed us or at least our government.  I remember interviews with Moammar Gadhafi on PBS from 1985 during tensions (here) that led to America bombing his home in 1986 (here).  I remember interviews with Manuel Noriega on 60 Minutes (here) just months before our invasion of his country to apprehend him in 1989 (here).  I remember the MSM interviewing the ultimate 1980s big bad, the Ayatollah Khomeini, even during the period when his forces held Americans hostage in 1979, on 60 minutes (here) and several other times through the decade.  These examples go back much farther with Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the USSR, our greatest enemy and opponent during the cold war, on Face the Nation in 1957 (here).  These are but a few examples from a time when the MSM wasn’t fully controlled by the establishment and still to some extent did the job of informing rather than propagandizing the American people.  These interviews were valuable in that they humanized our enemies and allowed them in their own words to explain world events from their point of view.

In our modern age, we don’t get serious interviews with world leaders anymore. The MSM is more concerned with repeating establishment talking points than providing any valuable information to the American people.  It is frightening to me that we are at a point where Russia Today (RT), Al Jazeera, and Xinhua report more faithfully the truth than any American or British MSM outlet in any media.  The establishment is afraid of regular people being informed or educated to think.  Tucker Carlson, following in what used to be the finest traditions of American journalism, has traveled to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin.  Putin is irrefutably one of the most influential world leaders today and definitely a rival to the American Government, if not the people.   Yet, what just a couple of decades ago was a laudable standard practice is today met with scorn.  There have been calls for Mr. Carlson to be arrested, charged with treason, and accusing him of being a foreign agent (here, here, and here).  I am sure much of this outrage is manufactured at the request of the MSM’s government handlers.  I don’t know that it is, but it fits the pattern as it seems Tucker’s biggest crime is providing information the government can’t control.

It has recently come to light that, under the Biden administration, Amazon was pressured into shadow banning books with unapproved opinions (here, here, and here).  Seriously, government book burning is so 1938 when you can just banish them on request.  It is clear the government is afraid of a population that is capable of critical thinking and as such has endeavored in every domain to control what information is available to the people, even though the first amendment of the constitution was put in place specifically to prevent such control.