Principle

Context and Intent. In a world of facts and abstract ideas and concepts, one soon comes to the conclusion that what really shapes a human narrative are humans. Behind all news, opinions, tales and gossips, the final denominators are the wordsmith, the orator, and their audience. All pulling and tugging, from their perspectives and perceptions, weaving a tapestry they want to share, embody and partake.

Regardless of bias, the News media, once the Bastion of, if not education but reporting the everyday of everyday, continues to degrade due to its loss of focus. The marriage of Newspapers and the corporations who purchase them wholesale create overtime ever larger blind spots of self interest. Access has been commodified becoming more a mean for selfish ends.  For it is intrinsic wisdom that no one prefers to bite that feeds it. Becoming ever more myopic, if said hand is a multinational corporation with quarterly quotas to upkeep and shareholders to respect.

Ironically, the Internet, with its unstated status and perceived promise of becoming a Fountain of Knowledge to Humanity,  was never sold as a provider of good knowledge, or only sage understanding, or insight. Even though, especially in the early days, many of us naively thought it to be its general destination. Albeit if one drinks long enough of its nectar, one is certain to taste a cup of wisdom, if one only filters and constantly distills the dirt within. Never a tasteful option.

It is inescapable. For only he who knows all, and is willing to at times work against their own biases and interests and still opts to transmits ideas are the closer ones to the message that stand beyond and without the human. Can this be done? No. But one can try. For all communications of all types are but a dance between those who tell and those who listen.

How can this be remedied, or minimized? To nexus the basics. By admitting and never forgetting the social contract in social, open discourse. To clearly and openly state one’s biases to an audience and trust those who listen to be able to discern such bias, and to remember that honest discourse is always transmitted through the prism and worldview of one individual to another. And that such exchanges are done in the hope of Good Faith. Otherwise, no useful or pleasant communication can ever take place and if that happens, we all citizens, lose.

Truthfully, who wants to live in a human world like that? I do not. And I truly hope you, the reader can share and agree with this context and intent.  Let’s see and share the world together.