Well, I saw Vice. While heavy handed at times the film was quite tongue in cheek in others and reminded us every step of the way that we are constantly being manipulated. The trick is being the one who tells you who is manipulating you.
Hint: it’s not just one side. In fact the entire concept of ‘sides’ is a blatant manipulation and misrepresentation of what we are supposed to me as a nation.
Manipulations that I previously overlooked bubbled to the surface in the film. One strong example of that is the wording of the climate issue. Once chiefly referred to as Global Warming it is now primarily seen as Climate Change. Which one scares you more? Yep, that’s the entire idea and thus the issue here. We have long been manipulated by the way language is used and by who we put our faith into and how. Fox News is perhaps the biggest culprit. Fox is nominally the largest news network in America and most watched in large swaths of America. By definition they are the mainstream. Still, they consider themselves exactly the opposite, the small outsider struggling to bring you the facts. At least they’ve mostly dropped the guise of ‘fair and balanced’
If you get your truth from the opinions of others who misrepresent those opinions and facts you will believe what they want you to believe. On a you do—once you choose a side—it’s hard to reverse course.