Isn’t “fake news” really just another form of bearing false witness against thy neighbor?
Isn’t what we are all hearing and seeing across every form of mass media exactly that?
Aren’t they really pitching and selling us stories steeped in biased, speculative gossip? And in doing so, isn’t this precisely what it means to bear false witness?
““Thou shalt not bear false witness” forbids:
1. Speaking falsely in any matter—lying, equivocating, or devising any way to deceive our neighbor.
2. Speaking unjustly against our neighbor to the prejudice of his reputation, which involves guilt on both counts.
The Eighth Commandment.
I believe that for Jews, Christians, or Muslims to be fully informed in their obligatory adherence to their own dogma and doctrines as followers of their faith, they must familiarize themselves with the Talmud.
No, really—all of us need to understand where the foundational principles of our laws, and the laws of society itself, originated.
Rather than becoming entangled in debates over what is or is not found in the Old Testament versus the Torah, or for that matter the Quran, I believe it is fairly straightforward to acknowledge that all of these traditions share roots in a common moral mindset, at least in their foundational origins.
Unfortunately, most people believe whatever supports their existing worldview. Whether that worldview is evangelical, Zionist, or Islamist, many seem to forget—or simply ignore—these foundational facts.
Some even ignore the origins of that “facial autism” phenomenon, which reveals exactly who they are when they selectively apply their convictions whenever the nerve strikes them… hmm?
As we wade through the E. coli–level contamination of today’s mind-priming narratives—those contingencies that command the sway of our perceived free choices—we are constantly prodded and poked by attention-grabbing urgency, alerts, and manufactured importance, all broadband-injected into our lives.
The bacteria I am referring to, in essence, is what we see coming from today’s so-called media press corps.
Of course, no one from one opposing point of view believes what is propagated by another, because doing so would require entertaining a different perspective, right?
What is being popularized by the priming narratives is in effect nothing short of subliminal mind control that fosters further division!
How many of these talking points do you suppose are actually a real crisis or a critical issue that is worthy of demanding so much of our attention?
What is being popularized through these priming narratives amounts to nothing short of subliminal mind control, fostering further division.
What if an “urgent” or “critical” attention-grabbing narrative is simply made up?
What if it is a purposeful attempt at sensationalizing poppycock—or, at the very least, promoting embellishments designed to meet objectives such as higher ratings and rankings?
Doesn’t it make sense that such narratives are merely veiled attempts at socially engineered directives?
Not a conspiracy, but a collaborating consensus—a shared mindset of understanding among outlets like PBS, CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, Newsmax, and others—applying politically charged rationales for how we are informed and which side of the divide we are nudged toward occupying. This influence is like a virus, and catches a fire fed fever when it goes viral!
In the broadcasting of seeds, any farmer can explain that in order to have any hope of bearing fruit, four essentials are required:
- a.) Seeds
- b.) Soil
- c.) Water and of course
- d.) Fertilizer
Now, think of today’s so-called news the way a farmer thinks about planting crops. What are the parallels?
First, you need land. The land must be fertile and ideally have access to water through irrigation or natural precipitation. Without reliable precipitation, yields suffer. Likewise, nutrient-poor soil diminishes growth potential.
Comparatively, imagine that the land represents the populace—the viewing or listening audience. You can’t plant anything without somewhere to plant it.
From a go-to-market strategy, the farmer must consider not only which crop yields the most, but which crop brings the highest value. In this analogy, the crop is the story—the narrative selected for broadcast because it promises maximum audience engagement.
And once again, comparatively the selection of the type of crop here in this example is exactly like the selection of what kind of story that will bring the highest value (audience) when being broadcasted upon fertile ground.
Soil preparation would already be complete before seeding. Likewise, societal divisions have already been fertilized with ideological additives and micro-nutrients designed to accelerate the growth and spread of seeded narratives.
The yield of a news story is measured by demographic response, much like a farmer measures germination rates. Old seeds germinate less effectively than new ones, and avocados bring a higher return than bananas.
Thus, to successfully sell a story, it is crucial to know both your market and your product.
Thus in the successful ideas behind the “SELLING” of a story be told, it is crucial to know your market and your product!
Today’s news agencies understand this well. They sow seeds into shallow yet fertile soil, producing predictable contagion and contention.
One result of this irresponsible broadcasting is akin to yelling “fire” in a crowded theater—fostering civility gone rogue.
These narratives are not designed to provide healthy nourishment. Instead, they produce non-organic, GMO-style fodder that gets consumed by an unsuspecting herd being led to slaughter.
They know exactly which fertilizer to use to achieve the highest yield. They understand soil deficiencies and apply targeted additives to ensure narratives take root and flourish.
They also know what’s needed in preparing for the soil’s micro-nutrient deficiencies, as the application of these are a key factor in having any chance of successfully seeding ideas that will take root and flourish.
Ideas cannot germinate in sterile soil, nor can they bear fruit without careful preparation, analysis, and categorization. Yield potential depends entirely on the selection of genus and species.
To gain a bird’s-eye view of how media toxicity poisons future generations—and eventually sterilizes the soil itself—you must climb to a higher perch and observe the slow, methodical growth patterns below.
Since the O.J. Simpson trial in the early 1990s, when lawyers became commentators, news began shifting from reporting facts to litigating narratives.
They’d lost interest in telling what had actually happened and found it more profitable to make suggestions as to what might have happened.
Truth was no longer the priority. Speculation was more profitable.
If facts failed to satisfy our thirst for information, they added what might have happened, could have happened, or should have happened.
Today, they simply make it up. These fabricated narratives are spun collaboratively to accommodate political agendas.
It is difficult to deny that much of the press and social media lean heavily toward a liberal political bias, and with that influence comes responsibility for reckless propaganda.
Stories such as the suppression of factual reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, while promoting claims of Russian disinformation, illustrate this clearly. Meanwhile, a fabricated narrative of Trump colluding with Russia was advanced, despite evidence that political opposition had engaged in similar behavior during the 2016 election.
This partnership between media and academia continues to poison future generations, promoting a one-sided ideology often labeled “wokeness”—a belief system resembling a new religion, one that replaces God with science and mammon.
If one cannot see the parallels between agricultural hybridization and ideological engineering of future generations, perhaps a higher perch is needed.
This process is slow, methodical, and alarming. These so called news agencies are poisoning the next generation of our American populous, very much in collaboration with academia’s one sided slant toward totalitarian socialism.
This style of news functions like a herbicide—designed to eliminate opposing viewpoints.
Only one form of free speech matters: the freedom of the press to define truth on its own terms.
The mindset called “Wokeness” is very like the promotion of a new religion, except that they’re trying to replace a belief in God with a rewritten script for a belief in science (mammon).
Academia fares no better, having partnered in suppressing debate by socially criminalizing dissenting views.
If one can’t easily see the parallels between developing a hybrid version of agricultural crops and how this is being applied to the next generation, well maybe you need to climb up to a little higher perch?
Consider abortion. Media promote it as a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, framing the termination of life as “choice,” ignoring the responsibility of nurturing life.
It’s slow and methodical very much like how plants grow and it should be alarming, to say the least!
This style of news has become just like a herbicide, which is developed in order to kill opposing plants (point of view).
The only free speech that matters to them is the freedom of the press to say and print any version of what they’d like to call the truth.
Unfortunately, their version is the only version that fits their own narrative and they control and suppress the allotted time that another version should deserve in providing a well balanced verses agenda driven stories.
Academia is really no better as they have partnered up to virtually eliminate any opportunity for debates by socially criminalizing a conservative for having any opinions that run contrary to their own…hum?
As an example, the news media promotes and supports the right of a woman to relinquish her unique ability to reproduce life by giving her the right to terminate a new life that she has the responsibility for nurturing and caring for in her womb.
This so call “CHOICE” is gifted to woman because they are told that they and only they have the right to control their bodies. Never mind that a woman has been gifted the unique privilege of being able to bring a new life into the world for after all, all that’s relevant (according to the liberal agenda) is that she has the right to give life or to take it away!
If I recall correctly, that right is unique to God almighty;
JOB 1:21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
Doctors and Nurses that participate are as well exempted from any form of prosecution for choking a life out even after delivery of a viable human life…hum?
By marginalizing the definitive counted number of hairs that are developing in the womb they fail to see that they themselves have subordinated to a new master veiled as a new form of religion, which is taking power over them.
That power isn’t the right to choose but, the choice that they were persuaded into believing that it was!
Freedom of choice has limits. Those limits should stop at infanticide.
Just as free speech does not permit yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, choice does not justify killing.
It only becomes controversial when emotions are injected into the court of public opinion where the evidence can be tinkered with by the media’s hold on the minds of the up and coming crop!
Public opinion courts allow inadmissible narratives to be introduced without cross-examination. Commentators, many of them lawyers, act as prosecutors without accountability.
This mockery undermines justice and promotes incivility.
No seriously, just take a look at the curriculum vitae (CV’s) of so many of the major broadcasting network’s talking heads.
As previously mentioned, this all began as a slow and methodical strangulation of the truth by mocking the opposing side and introducing more and more so called “experts” as a form of court room testimony.
Just like in a court of law, expert witness testimonies can carry weight and when you eliminate the due process of cross examination of the “FACTS” well what you get is the “FAKE” we have today!
What we have isn’t just a mockery of the American justice system it holds the freedom of the press culpable in promoting anarchy and incivility.
Our Founding Fathers understood that law rests upon morality—a moral meridian that guided society.
When commentators abandon truth, they bear false witness.
Basically they paralleled the Talmud’s established meridian line for morality so that we could distinguish between the ebb flow between low tide and high tide!
In the early years of our nation’s development this premise obligated the masses to a holism goodness even out in the developing townships popping up all across the plains and prairies, and from sea to shining sea.
Lawlessness existed but, it was met in its opposition to civility with swift justice on the merits of the crimes committed.
Horse thief’s were hung and liars and deceivers were run out of town!
If only commentators could be held liable and prosecuted under the same laws for contempt in a court of law when their many public opinions are found to be steadfastly anchored in perjury…hum?
It’s important to look at anything that has a value in a way that’s set aside from the price, in order to be able to focus on it’s truthful worth.
Our freedoms are not free. They were paid for dearly.
It’s our responsibility and inherent obligation as citizens to not allow the most valuable gift of our civil liberties to be misguided and abused.
It’s absurd to think that a developing human in its early or advanced stages of life isn’t worth considering!
Where is that person’s justice? Why aren’t they given a fair trial before they’re put to death? Why doesn’t that chance at life have equal rights under the law?
A transparently hypocritical view of such a premise can be seen clearly in the prosecution of an intoxicated driver that causes the death of an unborn child.
That’s called infanticide because that life isn’t considered just a potential life it’s considered a valued life!
Value is really about only one thing and one thing alone and that is all rolled into the evaluation that comes from the concessions that are made on the border of one’s perception. I call this line in the sand the moral meridian.
The media has gone not just rouge but in many instances treasonous!
In wielding the kind of power and influence that the press has over the American psyche it is an incredible responsibility for every author in the promotion of news to uphold ethical and moral journalism.
As journalist it is their job to accurately search for and find the truth!
There has been a grave injustice done to the American people by those who have succumbed to propagating anything less than substantiated truth and there should be criminal and civil penalties.
Unless we reach back into our past and locate our moral meridian, we as the greatest nation known to have prospered on the planet may just end up drowning when the next “high tide” comes.
Morality just like freedom of speech isn’t a God given right it’s a choice!
When those who think that a right to choose means that it’s a right to kill, well then we as the citizenry need to put a stop to it on the grounds that it’s lawless immorality will lead to our own demise, plain and simple!
When the news media promotes incivility, anarchy and disrespect to the highest office in the land, no matter who has been elected, we the people need the demand that our legislators write the laws that protect us and criminalize such actions.
If our law makers can’t find the strength and perseverance to overcome the hurdles that are in the way of securing our nation’s borders, well then we need to vote them out of office and get those in who will.
How does a country exist without borders and how can it continue to exist when it doesn’t have an effective way to regulate legal immigration?
“Term Limits” would be a good starting point and the reestablishing of all compensation packages would be another!
How about writing into law that Senators and Congressmen get the same pay compensation package as our Veterans.
They all serve similar duration as public servants and Veterans deserve better!
If we started making some serious changes then we might begin to find our way back to the line where clear conscience existed.
I don’t know about you but, I believe that time is running out before the next HIGH TIDE!
