by Arjun Walia, The Pulse:
I’ve been reading The Atlantic for about a year now. I do so to expose myself to great writers who have totally different ideas and perspectives than me. I find this helps me have a handle on what others in my community and world are thinking, and how I might be able to communicate my ideas in a way that may get them to at least think – even if they don’t agree with me in the end.
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Our world is in a chaotic moment of sorts. In some way, all of us believe that things are ‘falling apart.’ As I read The Atlantic, I have to say that I can’t help but feel these people are so stuck in ideological thinking that it’s painful. Weekly, I read the sentence “a threat to our democracy” many times over, as if most Western countries aren’t oligarchy’s. “What world do they see?” I ask myself. “What facts do they operate from, and what facts do they avoid?”
I’m not going to suggest I’m bias free, but I feel The Atlantic is a prime example of people who have a naive level of faith in our institutions and are ignoring every bit of evidence that exposes the level of corruption within them.
Where We Are Now
We are arriving at a moment where the majority of people recognize something is wrong in our society and are starting to put some pieces together as to what it involves. I call this Breaking The Illusion.
The reality of what has come out around COVID, government irresponsibility, and cover-ups over the last few years has been immense. Many knew of this before, but millions more saw this during COVID.
For starters, when you combine what the Twitter Files have revealed thus far and what has been gleaned through investigation over the course of COVID you get: Government corruption, censorship, authoritarian mindsets, political corruption, propaganda involving Big Tech, and a collusion between government, Big Pharma and Big Tech to raise profits at the expense of people – these are all just a sliver of what is going on in apparent ‘democratic countries.’
To be fair, millions were aware of these facts prior to COVID, but what happened during COVID brought in a huge portion of well credentialed and intelligent people into the mix. This not only boosted the numbers of people willing to talk about reality, but it improved the quality of conversation.
As people wake up to these facts they lose faith and trust in our institutions.
Billions of people witnessed the chaotic COVID moment largely manufactured by governments. These actions have sown a level of distrust so deep that latest Gallup polls indicate people’s trust in media, both television and newspapers, in the United States is at an all-time low.
To be clear, the loss of trust in mainstream media equates to a loss of trust in government because legacy media has just parroted what government has said without questioning or holding it to account. And since many in the general public knew government was wrong, the lack of trust in mainstream media = lack of trust in government.
If you are seeing that graph correctly you are seeing that we are experiencing the lowest point in media trust that has ever existed on Gallup’s record.
Around the world I imagine this trend would be somewhat similar. People are losing trust media, health organizations, and government at such a rate that one of the key goals of the 2021 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos was rebuilding public trust in institutions. It’s no secret it’s gone.
Oddly though, mainstream media, fact checkers, and politicians want people to believe this lack of trust is solely a result of fake news and misinformation online. To them, it’s the people who spread conspiracy theories that are somehow changing people’s minds about government using misinformation. The fact there are mounds of evidence proving government corruption, amongst other issues mentioned above, doesn’t seem to matter to these people.
