Yes the Duggar family has some problems. Why are these people being attacked so ruthlessly? It might possibly be that Josh Duggar did have some troubles as a young man. The family got him some therapy so now they are qualified to be the image of religious purity on television. I rarely and barely watch this show but it is easy to pick up that they are placed upon this pedestal and when that happens, the fall is much more dramatic. That is what has happened causing huge rifts in philosophy between the scholars of Facebook and Twitter. We argue and television gets to cash in.
Caitlyn Jenner is our newest famous person for just being famous. How many lives will the Kim Kardashian sex tape actually reach. I realize that Bruce made his own fame and in a more legitimate way than Kim but he was out of the public eye for some time and now his emergence at Caitlyn Jenner has made his gender identity issues a global concern. Social media and television has shrunken the world so badly that nothing happens in isolation. Again we are all subject to his struggle and it forces us to pick a side. We argue and television cashes in.
Why is it that Ferguson spawned a million stories a day about police misconduct. Thankfully some folks have campaigned to only share positive stories of police on social media as well. But how is it that we can recreate Ferguson so easily in Baltimore? Baltimore has black leadership so it can't really be about racism right? Some of the police officers charged in the death are black. We can't seem to play the race card but we sure can latch on to the damaged image of police. That's the story "everyone" wants to see. Now the image of police has been even more bruised and then we argue. You guessed it, the media cashes in.
By being such consumers of flawed media, we create some of the largest social rifts in this country. I read somewhere that 2/3 of the arrests in Ferguson were people that didn't live in that area. They were "activists" that came from other places. This tells me that media reach made that situation worse than it might have been. And then reporters stood in streets to show us how race is dividing our country. Folks, I won't deny that we have real issues of race in this country but our addiction to information causes misconception and prevents meaningful change from happening. Is that what we are looking for in our media, or are we just helping them cash in? Wise people have always told me if you want to find out where power lies, you have to follow the money. When it comes to the media, we are making ourselves powerless and we make it look like fun.
I know very little of the actual details of any of these examples. So that's why I don't just latch on to every nugget that is shoved into my face. I won't be arguing online with people who might be doing the same. It is unfair to the people involved and issues are never truly resolved. I hurt for these people sometimes because we make them objects to joked and debated about, They actually have to live with it. Ask an actual Ferguson resident how this has changed their lives and you will probably hear real struggle and pain. A pain that we can't feel a million miles away from our couch and keyboard.
I know very little of the actual details of any of these examples. So that's why I don't just latch on to every nugget that is shoved into my face. I won't be arguing online with people who might be doing the same. It is unfair to the people involved and issues are never truly resolved. I hurt for these people sometimes because we make them objects to joked and debated about, They actually have to live with it. Ask an actual Ferguson resident how this has changed their lives and you will probably hear real struggle and pain. A pain that we can't feel a million miles away from our couch and keyboard.
