The Pauper: Chapter 12: Media
The pauper is easily deceived, and he believes the media is his friend.
News outlets are private businesses. As such, profitability is their principal concern, not the presentation of facts or the truth.
Compelling stories make good money. And the more conflict a story has, the more compelling it is.
What journals report, reflect the sentiments of the ones who own and preside over them. For the elites must have everything, including control of the narrative and your mind. And they control the narrative to maintain illusions of normalcy, dictate what is and isn't acceptable, and assert “realities” which keep you pacified against them.
Whether it’s advancing the interests of war or crony corporatists, or smearing a truth-teller or acute social observer that offends their interests and sensibilities, you must understand that if you are a pauper, this system is weaponized against you.
You do not live in a world where honesty and integrity are rewarded.
Rather, to the compliant, the spoils.
It is why many in the ranks of the elite are exposed for their mediocrity when the veneer of money and power is peeled away. To reach their inner circles, you must pledge to the uniform and static ideas which they promote. Entry is not based on merit.
Men mislead in saying that they desire the truth. Rather, they desire for you to echo their sentiments and reinforce their perceptions; because their assumption is that they are already on to the truth. They are simply asking you to validate them.
And if you are naïve enough to interpret this request in an objective sense, you find yourself disregarded or afflicted in some manner, or both. It is honorable to speak honorable things in public, much harder to practice them with the threat of controversy.
Men prefer echo chambers filled with strangers, to sincere friends who utter righteous rebuke. It is because honesty upsets the illusions upon which we build our lives. Depending on what truths are publicized, there may be outrage against its publication, even from the pauper. Because in many cases, he too has built his life and his worldview on the lies narrated to him.
To expose those lies is to expose him also—in his mind. He will take tremendous offense.
It is why he doesn’t insist on being told the truth by the media. The pauper is easily deceived, and he believes the media is his friend. Even if the media tells him the whole truth of a particular matter, there are a thousand other greater truths it hides from him.
The antidote to all of this, is in one precept: Whenever he is presented with a case, he should demand the evidence which forms the basis for it. If he consistently observes this, he will greatly mitigate or eliminate many of the attempts at his deception.
But that’s not enough; he must think critically, and he must be assertive. Those who cannot initially deceive you, will gaslight you; in other words, they will make you question your own sense of logic. Standing on principle and often demanding proof will increase and maintain your personal power, and hold those trying to deceive you, accountable.
There is a personal danger to all this, however. In this exercise of high reason, many will question your loyalties, your moral compass, your sanity, or your intelligence. It will be hard, for the pressure to conform to a generally accepted narrative will be constant; but you should find the strength to not be swayed by force. If anything, you should counter and reprove such devilish methods to silence freedom of thought and speech and to control your mind.
Because in a such a reality, it is impossible for justice to have a place. As we have so often seen in societies and time periods where conformity was enforced by law.
Take into your own hands the responsibility to inform yourself, and depend not on a conglomerate controlled by the elite to do so. The objective is to live with clarity and freedom.
The way of the elite is enslavement, misery, and death.
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