It Seems a few Dangerous Americans Lack the Mental Faculty required to #Resist 'Acting Out' (Domestic Terrorism) - #Resistance
There's apparently an up-tick in domestic terrorism (although maybe that's just that–in a more-connected world–we're just more-'able to hear about it').
And there are plenty 'media-broadcasters' (from newspaper-publishers to Facebook-group posters & -comments) that "spin" that to say that 'disturbed politician-supporters are "just followin` orders"'—as though Americans are too weak-minded to tell when politicians' metaphors are too violent to be taken literally (I'm thinking of one who said 'Democrats should be kicked to the curb,' Trump has said several such things ...)
And many of us are so weak-minded—obviously not 'too weak-minded to accomplish that one-little mental task,' but rather 'too beleaguered with problems-to-figure-out to spend much brain-power separating the metaphorical from the literal' (like that phrase—you probably have too many 'things going on' to waste time worrying about "what I mean there").
Point is: when political-officials talk to the public, there used to be a safety-barrier there—they could say whatever violence-flavored things they wanted, and the Free Press could interpret it before we heard it (tell us 'how the politicians meant that'—could tell us (if not implied by the context of the speech) that 'kick them to the curb' meant something more like "regard their words as 'just (what Trump might call) locker-room talk.'")
That safety-barrier is dissolving. First, we Americans (and Internet-connected people around the world) now have 'direct access' to the politicians' public-announcements. That was fine, when we regarded video (movies, TV, Internet) as 'just stories'—and most of it is 'just stories,' but there's a lot of "news-stories" (which people today are taking as more "history" than the "rumors" it usually is).
When 'totally sane,' people know that political officials are simply "fellow citizens in higher positions," and people listen to them for wisdom that comes from a higher vantage-point. As life makes people less-&-less sane, they start to regard officials less as 'advisors' and -more as 'commanders, issuing marching-orders' or 'bosses, handing-out work-orders.'
People need to remember that 'even though the higher-ups have a full view of the national landscape, they don't necessarily know how to fix all the problems they see there (even though we might've chosen them out of all the candidates because "they know how to fix our national problem(s)).
And we need to 'resist' the lazy idea that 'their words' overrule "logic" or "sense" or "road-signs" or "present reality."
That word (the 'built' one below)—there might be something more to that word ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
And there are plenty 'media-broadcasters' (from newspaper-publishers to Facebook-group posters & -comments) that "spin" that to say that 'disturbed politician-supporters are "just followin` orders"'—as though Americans are too weak-minded to tell when politicians' metaphors are too violent to be taken literally (I'm thinking of one who said 'Democrats should be kicked to the curb,' Trump has said several such things ...)
And many of us are so weak-minded—obviously not 'too weak-minded to accomplish that one-little mental task,' but rather 'too beleaguered with problems-to-figure-out to spend much brain-power separating the metaphorical from the literal' (like that phrase—you probably have too many 'things going on' to waste time worrying about "what I mean there").
Point is: when political-officials talk to the public, there used to be a safety-barrier there—they could say whatever violence-flavored things they wanted, and the Free Press could interpret it before we heard it (tell us 'how the politicians meant that'—could tell us (if not implied by the context of the speech) that 'kick them to the curb' meant something more like "regard their words as 'just (what Trump might call) locker-room talk.'")
That safety-barrier is dissolving. First, we Americans (and Internet-connected people around the world) now have 'direct access' to the politicians' public-announcements. That was fine, when we regarded video (movies, TV, Internet) as 'just stories'—and most of it is 'just stories,' but there's a lot of "news-stories" (which people today are taking as more "history" than the "rumors" it usually is).
When 'totally sane,' people know that political officials are simply "fellow citizens in higher positions," and people listen to them for wisdom that comes from a higher vantage-point. As life makes people less-&-less sane, they start to regard officials less as 'advisors' and -more as 'commanders, issuing marching-orders' or 'bosses, handing-out work-orders.'
People need to remember that 'even though the higher-ups have a full view of the national landscape, they don't necessarily know how to fix all the problems they see there (even though we might've chosen them out of all the candidates because "they know how to fix our national problem(s)).
And we need to 'resist' the lazy idea that 'their words' overrule "logic" or "sense" or "road-signs" or "present reality."
That word (the 'built' one below)—there might be something more to that word ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
This topic actually comes up because of an ad in a recent SmartSource coupon-packet—an ad that says:
HELP STOP COUPON FRAUD
Report any illegal buying or selling to CouponFraud@newsamerica.com
The ONLY authorized distribution for SmartSource Coupon Booklets is through newspapers and other coupon packets delivered to your home.
I'm not exactly sure what 'coupon fraud' is (as 'the grocery-store computer' accepts the right bar-code whether it's on a coupon I got 'in a packet' or -one I found 'near the item in the store'). But I trust that all those 'found coupons' are coupons that were at-one-time distributed in home-delivered coupon-packets and left there 'by the person it was distributed-to.'
'Coupon Fraud' is explained at the 'Resist'-link above, so that we can understand how to avoid 'getting good deals (that manufacturers graciously bestow upon coupon-ers) the Wrong Way.
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