Day: November 9, 2014

Jon Stewart recently poked fun at the media for acting like the democratic party is, well, dead and buried. He noted that the media used language identical to the language used two years ago when the democrats were the big winners and the republicans were, well, dead and buried. This “either or” binary media philosophy is really great for selling commercial space, but does little to explain the nuance and intricacies of life. Worse still, it creates an environment that victimizes people by pulling their situations out of context and placing those people into reference groups that also destroy the context of whatever acts/events the individual is being persecuted for.

I’m speaking about the infamous Vikings RB now.

AP plead out to a lesser crime over a situation that many deemed to be child abuse, but everyone questioned from that cultural area (Texas) believed was not child abuse. Contextually, I don’t see what happened as child abuse. That’s just my opinion. Legally, it was deemed not to be a child abuse charge–at least not one that the prosecutors thought they could win. Still, Peterson has not been reinstated. Why? The team isn’t sure how it will look.

In reality the team isn’t sure what story the media will tell. Now I can tell you from watching these types of binary stories that the media will say whatever they think the audience is tipped towards. Case and point, at the beginning of the Jets game I am watching as I type, the Jets were a broken team with no hope or desire to win in the locker room. As the J-E-T-S jumped out to an early 10 point lead and suddenly forced a turnover deep in PIT territory, the same announcer had the gaul to say that in the production meetings he felt the excitement building among the Jets in expectation of a win and a turnaround.

The media is a lie. The media is the lie they think you want to hear.

This is another one of those days where I don’t have a coherent message to share. In truth I have nothing at all to say, but with ten minutes on the clock I am going to have to ramble at the very least. So, avid readers of good blogs: Turn back now before you re lost to the wiles of senseless writing.

Are they gone? Good.

I’m watching ‘Sex Sent Me to the ER’ and I reminded of just how much bad TV still exists in our present reality. Days like this I wanna jam down hard on the reset button, release the zombie hoard, and try to find some lasting meaning in surviving the plague. Since I can’t do that I’m going to turn off my brain. Seriously, I’m not sure if the commercials or the show is more interesting, and that isn’t saying much.

At this point you are probably wondering why I continue to watch. Well, we do some of the things we do with our partners out of respect for our partners. Sometimes our partners do what they do out of a deep sense of boredom and disinterest–which is the way I tend to feel about most TV in general lately.

Books haven’t been that much better lately. I recognize that it is about what/who you read. My last read was In the Tall Grss by Stephen King and his son. The short was, well, short. It didn’t tell enough of the story (character or otherwise) to carry my interest. In this modern society the mainstream attention span is short and maybe that helped birth such a story, but it wasn’t enough…

 

 

Some Thoughts:

1. Motivation isn’t a static thing. It ebbs and flows in concert with your environment and situation. I need to find a better environment for motivation.
2. The myth that black men love plus sized white women is seeming less like a myth and more like regularly scheduled programming. What’s up with that?