What's up, Kainers?!

[Kain Nobel]

@DerVVulfman : That's one of the biggest problems with the SJW movement; it's so easy to derail and discredit. I could argue I'm a SJW, to a point, but I don't cry over disgusting criminal scumbags being brought to justice. I believe black (and blue) lives matter, but I'm disturbed by the hypocrisy of some key members of both sides alike. If somebody was to get executed for raping a grandmother with a salad dressing bottle I definitely wouldn't be crying 'racism' over it.

@Ahzoh : Well the holy books (Bible, Talmud, Quran, etc) do have many verses warning about the very things we see today. Earthquakes in diverse places, ocean life dying off, the evils of Zionism, etc. One interesting thing I've heard somebody say about the subject though is "It doesn't matter if you believe in religion; the folks running our world do and they're constantly at war with each other." I'm paraphrasing but one day I'll find the original quote and credit the author.

I do personally believe there is more to this world, and humans in particular, than basic science leads the average atheist to believe. We're the only creatures that build bombs, nukes, iPhones, cars, trucks, subway stations, the FiveSix Dollar Foot Long, etc. We utilize the unseen force of wi-fi to communicate with our friends (and foes) across the world. Are we created in the image of God to have dominance over all the foul of the air, the beasts of the land, the creatures of the sea? I don't know; but I do know that bears don't hunt antelope with bolt action rifles nor do they call their mothers via the use of a 4G network while hunting whale from a tugboat.

I have some interesting perspective on the various religions but that's a whole other can of worms. Maybe I'll write an article about it some day. Maybe not.

@kyonides : I certainly hope we never go into a full blown nuclear war.

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A couple of chapter drafts have been started for my purposed Propaganda Vol. II book; Hip Hop & The Marginalization of Black America; The Influence of Multinational Conglomerate Corporations. Interesting subject matter but honestly I've yet to impress myself with my own writing. These are such broad subjects and the biggest challenge I face is keeping them as short yet detailed as I possibly can.

The original Propaganda book, written by Edward Bernays, is a rather brief but informative piece of literature but it does give one a good look at the culture of public relations in the 1920s. There is a certain aura of being a mostly non-biased with an educational break down of how media and advertising shaped public opinion in those days. It does a good job conveying detailed subject matter without being hundreds of pages long.

What has changed since his book came out?

• Cars were considered an optional luxury; now they're ubiquitous.
  
• We've engaged in World War II in attempt to end the Nazi movement.
  
• We've created NASA and (supposedly) put a man on the moon; now we've got an International Space Station.
  
• John F Kennedy was murdered, giving rise to the discrediting term of "conspiracy theory".
  
• We've engaged in multiple proxy wars with much of Africa, Asia and various other Middle Eastern countries.
  
• MLK was born a year after Bernays published his book and grew up to spearhead the civil rights movement.
  
• Internationally, women have gained more and more rights each year via the feminist movement.
  
• Aviation has greatly advanced international travel and warfare.
  
• We've created VCRs, DVD and Blu-Ray players. Now we stream whatever via the internet.
  
• We've went from arcade machines to in-home video game consoles and now smart phone apps.
  
• We've evolved from spin-dial telephones, cordless phones, big bulky cell phones to the modern day smart phone.
  
• Movies, television and radio have become much more explicit each passing year.
  
• TV now has way more than 3 or 4 channels offering 24/7 "Programming".
  
• Globalization has become a much more widespread and controversial subject.
  
• The rise of the internet has changed communication, business and the spread of conflicting propaganda.

So much has changed since Bernays published his book in 1928. If I do continue writing my own, I'd like it to be as brief and informative as his but I have a feeling it would be at least double, maybe triple, in page count. My big motivation is the fact that, with the internet, the people now have more power to produce their own propaganda via alternative media to combat the narrative of the megalithic mainstream media we each have grown to trust less and less.

I hope alternative media can change the narrative and bring more honesty and integrity to the so-called journalism of today. Then again, it might just become more of the same shit, just crazier. We'll always have spin and bias...



...unless we turn off the television and internet and just get our news from a rock.