I never said that asking people to back up what they say with evidence was being too trusting. It’s that they expected me to back up my statements with evidence gained from the singular source of their choice, so either they expected me to be too trusting, or they were too trusting. I did back up my statement with evidence; the evidence of logical deduction and reasonable truth. I have shown mastermind level thinking at play and the possibility of it being played on a societal level in believable format. I have not doublespoke once, I rather find doublespeak to be distasteful and prefer speaking plainly.
Should I watch the news and only the news and trust it completely as some seemingly do? Or should I not use the reasoning engine that was given to me from birth?
The fact that things are playing out the way they are shows that Trump isn’t truly trying to eradicate food stamps, so this entire thread is tongue-in-cheek to gauge responses. I’ve looked around at the kids around me who’ve suddenly begun to watch politics and, like me, they see the ‘corruption’ that’s all too obvious there, and, thinking themselves clever, point it out and giggle. But, as I’ve come to realize, that is the corruption that they choose to show. The fact that they show as many steps as they do only goes to show that it isn’t what they choose to be about and are glad to have it known as such. It is deception without deception as their audience and fans force the expectation on them to be corrupt and so they find themselves being so against their will.
And, this is evidenced as truth based on what I know personally. A few years ago, I did change instantaneously, outwardly. For a decade I had been growing and changing on the inside and, sure enough, changing steadily on the outside as well, though not as obviously. When I made my instantaneous change; when all of the inward pieces were in alignment and ready for it, I had to fight against the strong perception of my friends and family and those around me. I was ready to change, I could change completely and did anyway, but was forced to be what they expected me to be. I’m not the only one who has experienced this. Even without others around me in society talking openly of this and admitting it, I find truth again in fiction, one of my favorite characters who I used as an avatar recently and channeled the spirit of: Lestat De Lioncourt, Brat Prince of the Children of Darkness; a Vampire who aspired to be a Saint, who traversed the paths of Heaven and Hell and tasted the blood of Jesus Christ, who admitted in his stories that he suffered similarly, being forced to pander to his fans and be the incorrigible brat that he was against his will. ‘Who am I to deny those that love me so?’ And this, through the veils of reality, coming through a mortal writer, Anne Rice.
And me, being me, took a look at that Brat Prince and said, you, a child of Darkness on the Devil’s Road, want to be a Saint. I can work with that.
Take a look again at the presidential debates between Hillary and Trump. Neither of them were in control of themselves. The expectations of their audiences were obviously playing across and through them, forcing them to say and act as they did, inconsistent, arguing things they did not want to argue, did not believe, etc. See Trump now in office and when in front of the media cameras, most likely not saying anything other than the things expected of him by his audience. What he does off camera is probably vastly different. And, if you question the validity of this, think of witchcraft or voodoo with their mediums, their artifacts that help them work their magic. If, in any way, this is more than just fairy tale and nonsense, then the modern television becomes a medium for an audience to focus on a target, whether knowingly or unknowingly. So, when people are pushed into the public eye in such a way on such a platform, they are under a direct heat that they are not under out of the public eye even shortly after being there. There is a reduction of pressure that would be noticeable to them.
Is any of this unreasonable? Irrational? Illogical?