Deceptive Reality

A few weeks ago i was writing a paper about the media maniplation of crime and how it creates a reality of crime that is far from realistic. In the process of writing this paper i started thinking about how the media not only control percpetions about crime, but they also control perception in regards to just about anything that we ourselves aren't directly involved or have had first hand experience with.

Specifically regarding global issues, what the media tell us about what's happening overseas creates a false reality. I guess the overall point i came to was that the media have the power to control the way we think about the world around us, it creates realities that are built on lies. This is actually a really scary thought. If the majority of people living in media saturated societies have a false perception of reality they're really powerless in terms of affecting any real change amongst their own governments let alone taking a stand against what their governments are doing in various parts of the world

I think this sort of media control creates almost a worldwide benevolence. I'm still working my way through Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" and in it she explains a number of ecenomic, social, and political catasrophes that have happened all over the world. Often times these disasters have come as a direct result of western involvement and manipulation. Of course back home we think nothing of these things. The media tells us that some corrupt dictator has lost his mind and started systematically eliminating those in opposition to him. What they don't tell us is that our own governments are backing this dictator because he has and will continue to implement ecenomic policies that are favourbale to our capitalist elites.

I'm sure many people would feel moved to do something about this if they had been told the truth, but we're almost always lied to and we're certainly never told the full truth. Through a plethora of reading that i've done over the past 5 years or so it's become increasingly obvious that there is some infinite inescapable evil that is living and thriving under our noses. I'm not saying that everything i've read is 100% credible, even if half of what i've read is true it's still deeply unsettling. We're letting people get away with murdering millions of innocent people, that kind of evil can't hide, we just don't like looking at it.

Lion of Judah have a song that really relates to what i'm saying:

Licking Evil

seen so many people swallowed by lies

so content to embrace what's wrong accepted lies,

just gone along afraid to look through another's eyes

in the heart of the right men

in the heart of the white men

lies a piece of the devil

hold the world in your hand

divide the 'filth' from the men

the good disappear into quicksand

threat to your machine marks the end

in the heart of the right men

in the heart of the white men

lies a piece of the devil

don't become me

DEVIL

DEVIL

DEVIL

DEVIL

don't become me

don't become me

don't become me