The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword

The fate of this country lies in the opinions and biases of journalist puppets. When the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword" was coined in 1839, it's author couldn't have fathomed how instant and global mass media access would have proven that phrase true as the air we breathe. During that time, the era of conquering by the (proverbial) sword was still prevalent. But what the author probably didn't understand is the problem is in those who would conquer, not the sword. Back then the sword was the weapon of choice. Today the weapon of choice is the pen. But the end results are the same. Look at how most of the legacy media, MSM, lefty media, whatever you want to call them, has dismissed the problems of violence and how badly it has grown. Such is more like provoking the sword by the pen.

The media has become little more than a professional rumor mill. The same forces are at work as the old high school popular crowd rumor mill, which includes those outliers hoping to be in the popular crowd by starting their own rumor mill. It takes on a life of its own and people will defend it vehemently. If you've ever been the victim of rumors, you should be leary of participating in them. Certainly don't get on the bad side of the media. Your character will be assassinated, just like in high school. In the public mind guilt by accusation is checkmate. Their trust in the popular crowd (the media) has created creatures of the mob, in a phenomenon I call Mobthink.

Many are bumfuzzled at such accusations against the media because they still believe in the magnanimity of the media. This utter and absolute naivete that Americans possess is blinding America into ruin. Do the journalists and news houses want that? Good question. Most probably don't. Those who remain or are allowed to remain and climb the latter must join the chorus, which is already blind beyond repair. Who controls that? Well, it starts with the leadership culture, then the rest naturally follows. The real question is "what" controls it?

Most are naive as to how organizational cultures grow or how any culture grows, and how powerful culture (peer pressure, social instinct, Stone Age social animal...) is to force the most horrible things imaginable. Culture is easily powerful enough to enforce the status quo - and it happens through individual actors. Our species' biggest fault is the ability to reframe reality to match the social status quo. And we tend to reinvent memories to match the current context when we recall them - before they reach our conscious awareness. It's the reason why we were warned about peer pressure in high school, though those warning us didn't fully understand it.

Centrist opinion editor Bari Weiss still believed in the magnanimity of the media when she joined the New York Times. She found that magnanimity no longer exists. So she resigned and published her eloquent resignation letter for all to see. It wasn't long before every single far-left news house published her character assassination, accusing her of being a controversial opinion editor (which is true, a centrist in a far-left newspaper), or she quit for other embarrassing reasons, or some other lie. The letter was called "scathing" by most reports - a term that characterizes the letter as an incredulous emotional rant.

Here's where you come in. When you think about these things and you join the chorus to dismiss accusations against one side but believe every single accusation against the other side, because of the media, maybe you should question both your dismissals and your blindly believing. The media lies all the time for a story. They lie by ignoring one thing and reporting another, by spinning select facts to fit a narrative, and sometimes outright fabrication. But to find it you'll have to do your homework.

You decide. Join the popular crowd in participation even fabricating your own rumor mill, or think for yourself and prove to the world that our species can operate at the highest evolutionary attainment, rather than the social animal born in the Stone Age.

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