Trust The Facts (When The Facts Are More Than Just What Corporate Media Gives You)

It is a fool who is unwilling to believe the overwhelming evidence that is available to him. But what most people refer to as the overwhelming evidence nowadays is the evidence corporate media is willing to provide us. I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but corporate media has a certain bias towards corporate interests. Go figure, huh? Corporate media is the great echo chamber of approved narrative and the great strainer of the unapproved. Note that I do not say proven and unproven but approved and unapproved. Proof has no real power in the simulacrum media weaves about us, while approval is the loom upon which the matrix is woven.

Of course, proof is still given lip service, in the way hypocrites pay tribute to virtue. They say that they are supporting a proven position when in fact all they are doing is serving as an amplifier for whatever position is sanctioned by power. And it appears to many that the position IS proven because it’s so unanimously accepted by the various corporate outlets that share the same interests.

But it is here that the overwhelming evidence argument works against the media because there is overwhelming evidence that the media lies consistently and on a grand scale. They lie to promote the agenda of the wealthy and powerful. More than that, the media is set up to consistently favor the attitudes and values of those with wealth and power. Why would one imagine it to be otherwise?

Knowing this, we must then rely not so much on the overwhelming evidence, which is merely the echoing of that which supports the interests of wealth and power, and rely more on trustworthy sources. We must judge people and institutions when they get a story wrong, when they predictably get stories wrong, and when they never apologize or atone for their “mistakes”.

This rules out EVERYONE who supported the Iraq War and EVERYONE who did not call them out and continue to call them out for their failure. This immediately cancels CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, NPR, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others. The New York Times did issue a modest acknowledgement that they handled their coverage of the leadup to the war poorly, but it was far from the contrition required for such an epic failure and to my memory not one individual paid a priced for the epic failure. This was the journalistic equivalent of a mortal sin, and for the vast majority of corporate media to never discuss it in a frank manner means they have no desire to right this wrong. It is an obvious reason to abandon any trust in them, because it seems evident that they serve a power that does not serve you and that does not serve truth. IF they are able to report so wrong on such an important issue, the only logical position for you or anyone to take is to default assume they are not telling the truth.

When you look at how many reporters and journalists and pundits and media outlets and intelligence agencies and think tanks and politicians got this so wrong and never paid any price, you can see what a pool of shit were all swimming in. And somewhere beneath the turds floating on the top are the blown-up bodies of children and depleted uranium we never see. If you can wipe the shit out of your eyes for one moment, perhaps you can begin to see why some push back against wave after wave of reporting that gets mistaken for overwhelming evidence.

They will treat you like you’re insane for questioning the establishment narrative. Because they seek to contain ideas that threaten their narrative, just as a society seeks to quarantine those with a deadly disease. “Oh my God, how can you doubt that Putin has tapes of prostitutes peeing on Donald Trump?!” “How can you doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction?” “What gives you the right to ask why Assad would pointlessly use chemical weapons against an enemy he was already beating when the result of that behavior would cause the United States to bomb his country? Why won’t you accept as unquestionable truth the assertions of unnamed intelligence agents?!”

Remember these two things: 1. Unsubstantiated claims being echoed endlessly is not the same thing as overwhelming evidence, and 2. The mainstream media, be it left or right leaning, has no reputation for credibility upon which they can rest. It is not merely your right to question and to doubt, it is your duty.