Hi Everyone,
This was just going to be a quick tip, but I kept adding more and more as things popped into my head that I thought were relevant. It all started when I clicked on a YouTube spot that reported that Donald Trump had been deposed from the White House by an act of Congress. Great, I thought, this is the news I have been waiting to hear for the last twelve months. But the more the clip went on, the more suspicious I got. I had not heard any news that day, but I decided to double-check other sources and found that nobody else was reporting this breaking news headline.
It was not likely, due to the gap in when this news clip came out and the time when I was checking was about ten hours difference, so this should have been splashed all over the media if it was true. Was it a deepfake impersonation or an actual channel peddling rubbish to support its own agenda? I am wondering now what else I had believed to be true over the months that was not true.
There are mind games at work here; do not get caught in their lies. I have not bought a newspaper in months, and now I find that YouTube has been compromised, too. Where does it end, just living life in your own little bubble, not interacting with the lives of others, constantly asking, "What are you talking about, that is news to me?"
An example - "Did I see what is happening in the soaps? X is blackmailing Y because they mugged Z". "No, I have not watched Coronation Street or East Enders or Emmerdale, etc., since the writers got Tracey pregnant, about 2000. I do not want my evenings polluted by babies crying, or is Y going to be nicked because W heard X and Y arguing about it and is going to rat on him to the cops." or in a recent episode, someone is going to be murdered, and they are wondering who is going to get the blame for it.
"But that is three-quarters of the population watching them!" he replies.
"That may be. Sure, I know it happens, but all of the depressing plot lines they come up with, I don't call it entertainment. If they have to put a mental health advisory comment at the end of a program, they can keep it to themselves. They can watch what they like; I don't mind, just don't force it on me. I like fictional crime dramas, not true crime. There is too much crime going on in real life, I don't want to be reminded of it."
The same thing goes for hospital dramas. I have watched Angels and Casualty in the dim and distant past. Since I have had a stay in hospital myself, my treatment by the doctors and nurses was very professional. But now that I am out of there, I do not want to be reminded of it by watching hospital soaps. One less thing to chat about.
Back to my main topic, the nugget of wisdom I pass on to you today is -
Think twice when you hear or see a story, and if it is an important topic to you,
always check with other sources,
Just in case they are telling garbage.
Many thanks for being interested in what I have to say.
Regards all,
Ivor Cogdell
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