The current imbroglio regarding the forged 'Heartland' documents reflects another low ‘tide’ in the interminable ebb of journalistic integrity. Most post-modern journalists have given up any pretence at objectivity about anything at all, and have subsequently created an atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust about every word or statement that emerges from the portals of the press about all of the significant issues which define our troubled epoch.
What we end up with is a mass of subjective opinions, often woefully uninformed and pedantically biased with the inevitable result reflecting an information sphere replete with disinformation and no one believing anything emerging from the opposing ‘camp’ (undoubtedly also influenced by the militant ‘tribalism’ preached from PC leftwing bully pulpits). The resultant confusion, chaos and appeals to consensual conformity are the ruling paradigms of today’s news cycle.
Unfortunately history illustrates that a civilisation which has arrived at such a position usually results in social cohesion being restored principally by means of force. Perhaps this should be the inevitable outcome of our elite’s much heralded evolutionary worldview, in which the strongest wins...or to paraphrase that 20th century prophet; ‘the will to power of the Übermensch’!
"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” C. S. Lewis
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