Advantages of paying attention…

A FOX news headline this morning got my attention:

WOKE UP CALL

The article is about how retailers are bearing the fruits of their misguided wokeness in supporting the side that is destroying their businesses.

You can’t blame them.  They’re busy.  They have been single-mindedly focused on maintaining and growing their business.  Most have not had the time or forethought to cultivate a 360 degree perspective of what’s going on around them.

Consequently they have been exposed ONLY to the primary, force-fed sources of news and opinion from the main stream government propaganda outlets.

Retailers aren’t the only segment of our economy and workplace to be fuddled and misled by the narrow alternate reality check offered by the likes of ABC News and their fellow travelers.

Here is the short list of the various segments of our society, what they are fed by the media, the reality of the situation, and the consequence of their deception:

Retailers: 

These folks got on the Black Lives Matter bandwagon early on –donating millions to that “shoot yourself in the foot” cause -  immediately after the first criminal said he couldn’t breath. The realities are that BLM is a communist organization, and the “I can’t breath” guy was a criminal with a rap sheet, resisted arrest, was high on drugs, and the cops did what they were trained to do.  Unfortunately for the cops they were in the world of instant video, shocking the snowflake masses into observing for the first time what effective police work involved – thus the politically correct court verdict.  Retailers also got on the “defund the police” bandwagon as well, while supporting their local socialist politicians. 

The consequence of all of these boondoggle retailer “great awakenings” was and is unbridled shoplifting, looting, smash and grabs, and locust-like flash mobs wiping out their inventories.  Cops are nowhere to be seen.  Can you blame them?  Would you want YOUR cop son to be accused of a hate crime for doing his job?  Me neither.

Doctors and Nurses: 

Bless their hearts.  These are the most compassionate of this group.  They save  lives.  They expose themselves to horrible disease.  They are highly educated and continue devoting time to keeping up in their profession.  Consequently, their view of the world is also quite narrow.  They must focus on the sources of medical information that are the lowest hanging fruit to keep up.  And unfortunately, the source of that fruit is the often wrong, conflicted of interest, government medical propagandist, the good doctor Fauci himself.  Again, these fine folks have little time to consider the broader alternative views on the topic of COVID and related matters that may be even more effective than what they allow themselves to learn from their single source.

The consequence in my experience and research is that doctors generally are either out of the COVID loop altogether, do not recognize, never mind provide, alternate treatments, or go to extremes in their concern or lack thereof about the disease.

Schools, school boards, teachers and their unions: 

Let’s face it.  Public schools are an arm of federal government. As such, they are required to carry out federal Department of Education policies in spite of school boards being local. And those federal government policies are now suppressing even the expression of opinions of local parents, calling them “domestic terrorists” in a few instances. 

Many of us thought it was bad enough several decades ago when prayer and the pledge were removed from the classroom.  But now: No more American history, no more patriotism, no more civics, no more discipline. The new priority topics are gender studies, why “white man” is bad, why our founders were racist, and why our nation is evil.  The greatest destructive achievement is establishing the lowest common denominator of testing and behavior so that no one’s feeling are hurt.  Is it any wonder why we have school shootings?  No, it’s not the guns.  It’s government policy.

Military:

The military is now also deep in the ditches of “don’t offend anyone,” a priority higher than having an effective fighting force or even winning.  Standards of physical fitness have been reduced in some elements of the military to accommodate women.  Gays are in the same quarters as their sexually oriented opposites.  What could possibly go wrong?

But not only must we accommodate every soldiers perverted whims, we must not offend the enemy.  Don’t let them see the holy books of our predominant religion – they might be offended.  Honor our enemies traditions and beliefs so we don’t offend them.  Don’t fire until fired upon and related insane ROE. News flash:  We are not simply guests in our enemies nation.  We should not have to follow the adage “when in Rome do as the Romans do” when we there as enemy combatants.  We are there to win, not make them love us.

Could these foolish military policies have anything to do with why we haven’t won a war since WW2?  You betcha. 

Entertainers and Sports Stars:

These are the “wokest” of all.  Entertainers are the “artsy fartsies” that are all emotion and no substance.  Sports jocks are the “tough guys” that influence the rest of the gullible.  Both of these groups are so deep in their trade and feelings that they wouldn’t feel a gerbil crawling up anywhere. Yet they spout their ignorance as if they know something.

Unfortunately, these are the personalities the masses look up to the most -  even more so than the main stream media.

The consequence of this corner of public ignorance is destructive voting patterns and and politicians who pander to this ignorance.

Media:  The great majority of media, both news and entertainment, promotes socialism, globalism, immoral cultural values, and racism. These traits are revealed by their negative spin applied to conservative points of view, their portrayal of race and gender, and the absence of conservative content in their programming. In short, they are the conduit and mouthpiece for government policy.

Why is this the case? Lack of diversity in corporate media ownership and management. Virtually all media, ABC/Disney, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, and many in high levels of government, are related by blood or marriage.  Most have a common political agenda:  Usually socialist globalist, and anti-religionist, especially anti-Christian.  Nepotism rules the day.

The consequence is a biased, leftist-driven news source viewed by the majority of Americans.  We become what we consume.  And in this case, what we consumed is destroying our nation.

All these groups are so embedded in their professions, trades, and profits that they don’t have time or refuse to see broader perspectives.

That is an advantage that some of  us have:  The advantage of time to view the broader world and broader perspectives. We look at not just CNN or FOX, but Russia Today, Breitbart, China Daily, Taiwan News, Ukraine National News, religious sites, and dozens of others. We are not locked into the leftist agenda-driven nepotism of the prevailing media and culture.

I wish more of us had the advantage of paying attention.