AN OPEN LETTER TO Mel Gibson

AN OPEN LETTER TO MEL GIBSON, THE ACTOR/DIRECTOR AND APPARENTLY TROUBLED PERSON:


Mel. 

The World and Life today are increasingly overwhelmingly over-complex; and we are all at the risk of inadvertently ruining lives without actually understanding how and why we ever got into any mess we just happen to be in.

Granted.

True Wisdom and Reason have never been so scarce and yet so needed as they would be today. And when we think of all the suffering that humanity, that individual persons, in all their uniqueness and infinite potential for good, have suffered because of horrifically violent conflicts that began with mere words, expressing false ideas, then it is easy to lose hope that we will ever truly merit calling ourselves Homo-Sapiens, and that we will ever survive long enough, as a species amongst other living creatures on this planet, to evolve into the very beings our souls must yearn to be!

Mel Gibson, I say; how has it come to this?

And allow me to qualify the rest of what I am about to state in my Open Letter to You: I was not there during any of the media-covered incidents when you, by your own admission, lost control of your temper and expressed things ( those which you have already admitted to, and not the ones you deny having said ) which, for the life of me, I cannot accept as appropriate from the mind of the actor who played the character of Jerry Fletcher in "Conspiracy Theory"  ( just to name of my favourites )! Even if what Mr. Joe Esterhas has alleged is only partly true, and I have no reason to doubt the veracity of his entire account; even then: what do you really, really want to believe in your heart of hearts is the actual truth about us Jews in general? How can you generalise about as diverse a grouping of people as we Jews are? How can you not see that the World is not a simple place where each group ( Religious, Ethno-Religious, Ethnic, etc. ) is a strictly homogeneous entity of people, whom you seem to think are all of the same characteristics? How is it that an otherwise intelligent and potentially sensitive person ( you could not have acted so well if you lack that capacity to be truly human ) can so easily fall prey to dangerously contrived and devised false conspiracy theories about those who too often have been victims of such horrifically defamatory, malicious lies and clever fabrications? Or do you think of yourself as too perfect to have ever been misled and influenced by people with very sinister motives?

As far as I am concerned; there are many reasons, some rather complex, others less so, for why you have fallen for a dangerous mix of half-lies, truths, myths, and BIG LIES; all of which culminate into an amalgamated Worldview that would even horrify YOU if only you had not fallen for them! After all; there is a very fine line between being truly righteous and becoming an unrighteous extremist and fanatically pursuing an agenda, whether somewhat consciously or not at all, that can only lead to one place, that can only arrive at one conclusion: TOTAL DISASTER!

Should we not all fear that, given how overwhelmingly complex the World has become, and how dangerously imbalanced things are as a result of  a failure to advance our common sense of High Ethics to match our technological abilities as a species, that we can too easily confuse confusion for evidence of any single theory about WHO is or WHO ARE to blame for the worst of things that happen? THINK ABOUT THIS Mel! THINK!

You know; having been the actual direct and indirect victim of many incidents of prejudice, including anti-Semitism ( the anti-Jewish type…because there is also anti-Semitism towards other Semitic Language peoples/cultures, etc. ), and other forms of irrational prejudice-born hate and fear…having suffered terrible things, I too could have fallen for any number of otherwise outrageous theories about WHO and WHY! And even now I have to keep reminding myself to be very, very careful about how I might fool myself into allowing others to fool me! WHICH IS WHY I have generally come to the conclusion that if it is ever a choice between a theory that suggests that one of the generally popular conspiracy theories is right ( e.g. The Rothchilds, The Fed, Woody Allen, The THIS or THAT ....etc. BS x BS ) OR that the World is actually a much more complex and difficult place to figure things out in, even for those who might seek to conspire; then I will conclude that the latter is more likely the case: that we live in a World full of otherwise mostly decent people, some of whom can also too easily be whipped-up into a ferociously dangerous frenzied wave of crazies, capable of terribly horrific things, all because there are also quite a few criminal opportunists at all socio-economic levels of society, including at the very bottom and the very top, albeit probably more so at the top! YES! I think WHAT is really going on ( don't you love that song by the late Marvin Gaye; " What's Going On " ) is that our World is a mixed-up place where, regardless of so-called race ( as far as I am concerned; we're ONE HUMAN RACE ), ethnicity, religion or religious background, there are hardcore criminals, thieves, thugs, real modern-day pirates and other types of criminal-minded fascists ( opposed to human freedom and the true inalienable rights of all persons ) who know very well just how easy it is to CONFUSE, DIVIDE and EXPLOIT, ENSLAVE and/or EXTERMINATE most other people! And I think those miserably lonely modern-day pirates and thugs, especially the ones at the top, know many very clever ways to keep the flames of conflict's fires just high enough to profit enormously from!!! YEAH! There may be a few fanatic, racist wackos from or amongst each general ethnic, religious, tribal group, BUT for the most part THE WORLD IS A MESS BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE US FAIL TO PROPERLY AND SUFFICIENTLY UNITE IN DIVERSITY AND WORK TOGETHER TO ENLIGHTEN, TO EDUCATE AND TO EMPOWER OTHERS, and do all that without causing further harm to the Natural Flora, Fauna and Ecosystems  upon which WE ALL DEPEND! Because all we really have Mel in this World is You, Me, Everybody, Love, Life and The Mysteries of The Universe!

So Mel; I'd like you to answer me: WHAT'S GOING ON?!

Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo is an Independent Philosopher of Ethics and other things who currently resides in London, England, and who has Researched Conflicts and studied the principles and methods of Non-Violent Conflict Resolution.  

For the issue see: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/joe-eszterhas-letter-mel-gibson-36949

News Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGD2qIeNNVE

MY COMMENT AT YouTube News Video (look at bottom of screenshot)

Some Words born of Love to a Friend

We are all like snowflakes drifting in the wind....some of us are more unique on the surface, but we're all the same deep within!

The Universe and World around us are one half of what shapes our outer selves while the force of goodness deep within us reacts to these external forces; and it is the meeting of these two forces that give us our unique outer shells!

Our Souls desire to be at One with All that is Truly Loving, Kind, Understanding and Accepting...for our Souls are of the same Eternal Source as the Souls of all Creatures big and small; but our Living Bodies and the World upon which they depend is Imperfect and presents ever-changing situations: some which are Challenging Opportunities to Grow and become Enlightened to the Eternal Truths that our Souls knew countless times before...and had to forget to be able to be reborn again and gaze in awe at IT ALL!...and some which are Unpleasant Obstacles and potentially Lethal Threats! It is the truly Wise Person who understands all this without having to rely on pre-existing Dogma and Ideologies!

Your particular desire to be able to Impact upon the World...in the hope that you might make it better, for yourself and others, and in the need to feel some legitimate sense of Empowerment in a World that is too often ruled by people whose false sense of Power is gained at the expense of countless Other People...they are those whose false sense of power comes from denying others their own right to Self-Empowerment...and yet your desire to be Unseen and Anonymous is due to your upbringing and your inklings as to the nature of H'SH'M. For if We are truly created in H'SH'M's Spiritual "IMAGE" ( actually the right word is "LIGHT" ) then it is only natural that We should seek to be at ONE with H'SH'M by Being As Much Alike to H'SH'M as We can possibly be!

Alas; this Life-long Quest for Greater Oneness and Acceptance, i.e. LOVE, must Truly Begin with Accepting the LOVE that is Already Being Shared! And even the most Lonely, Wretched of Us can Accept the LOVE of H'SH'M.

The Fear and Anxiety that We may feel, some of Us sometimes Too Often so; is the Fear and Anxiety of being Rejected and Un-Loved! And it is this Fear and Anxiety that wrecks havoc on Our Lives; on our Brains and Bodies and the People around Us!

To rid Ourselves of this Fear and Anxiety We must Truly allow Others to share our LOVE, vice versa! And Acts of Genuine Kindness, both Material and Spiritual, are The Only Way to Self-Empowerment, to the Real Power; the Power of the Force of LOVE that, IF WE ALL WOULD GENUINELY SEEK AND ACCEPT IT, would bring about World Peace, Health and Sustainable Prosperity!

Blessed are Those of my friends who accept me in my imperfection! Cursed by their own negativity (no need for me to curse them: for it is neither my right nor my will to do so) are those who reject the Real Me on account of: 1. Who I am not able to be. 2. Who I would never want to be. 3. Who I may YET be able to be! For it is by Being True to our Innermost Self that We can ever be FREE! And without True FREEDOM, i.e. Inner Freedom, Outer Social Freedom is impossible! To be FREE to BE YOUR TRUE SELF does not come from Imposing the Force of Your Own Insecurities on Others! DO UNTO OTHERS AS THEY TRULY WANT or LEAVE THEM BE!

"May The Stars Shine in Your Favour as Soon as You Dare to See Their True Light!" - JP Fenyo, The Free Advice Man.

The INCREDULITY FACTOR and FASCISM

The problem with society-in-general is what I would call THE INCREDULITY FACTOR ! Here's what I mean: when enough of the majority of the people of any given society arrive at a point where they forget how Fascism creeped into place the last time then people start to assume that Fascism could not happen again because...well...the horrific things it causes TAUGHT US TO BEWARE OF FASCISTS and "SOMEONE", among those in positions of Authority, is working to PREVENT FASCISM's RESURGENCE! Well; that's a serious problem! Because the best environment in which Fascism can easily begin to take place is one in which almost everyone thinks that it is impossible! They will even Ridicule and sometimes even Neglect or Attack anyone who tries to Blow A Whistle and Warn them! And that's what I mean!

One of the methods Fascists use is to CLAIM TO BE THEMSELVES THE VERY OPPOSITE! That they are the True Anti-Fascists and that the LIBERALS are the REAL FASCISTS! This was done, albeit in a somewhat different fashion, in both Italy and Germany, at the time Fascism began to creep up! Prior to that period the term Fascist was not used in reference to Authoritarian Dictatorships that came either in the form of Monarchies or in the form of Robespierre and The Jacobins, who held a Reign of Terror on Paris at during the French Revolutionary period! Robespierre was, in a sense, a Fascist! As were the Ancient Greek Spartans! Fascism is defined by both Nationalist Militarism and Autocratic Rule or even partial-Autocracy! Invariably it tends to disintegrate into total terror, because at the very core of almost everyone is the desire to be Free and to have Inalienable Rights!
Fascism disintegrates and turns into outright terror because people start to yearn for their own personal Freedom, Liberties and Rights and will begin to Resist, to Oppose Fascism...which the leader and their Ruling Class will do anything to suppress...and this eventually is why it disintegrates into a terror. Also; in any Fascist society there is always some competition for the Mantle of Power at the top level; and the constant fear of one's fellow Fascists causes Paranoia and outright violent conflict among the ranks! Hence Fascism is something we must always strive to prevent! BUT TO DO SO EFFECTIVELY means heeding the Warnings and Advice of a Relatively Democratic society's Non-Violent, Non-Conflict-Profiteering, Non-Conformists! The Self-Educated Geniuses who fully understand what are the root causes of Poverty, Strife and Violence.

It can be said that Fascism, made up of One Group of Criminal Thugs headed by a Charismatic Leader, comes into power to Bring A Violent End to any Terror of Outright Chaotic Anarchy caused by other groups of criminal thugs and then proceeds to Rule by Subtle forms of Terror, calculated to Intimidate The Masses into Passive Submission, and then it begins to Disintegrate into Very Obvious Constant Terror and ends up being Overthrown by people who seek to bring about a True Democracy. But the problem is that OVER TIME the Masses begin to Forget HOW FASCISM, like a Toxic Parasitic Fungus, begins to take hold and spread and eventually takes over! The Problem in our times: Violent Overthrow of Fascism is less and less possible and formation of True Democracies is also less likely!

HENCE we have an increasing number of Plutocracies that deliberately create Idiocracies for the Masses! And Plutocracies are, in a sense, nothing but another form of Fascism; except that the Ruling Gang of Thugs and Their Criminal Overlord are High Class Criminals who can afford to use even more Subtle methods of Intimidation and, if need be, Deliberate Disenfranchisement of any who would seek to bring about True Democracy, i.e. Social Democracy!

UNFORTUNATELY many of today's youths sense that things are not as they are mean to appear and that things are not going well, but this growing social paranoia, resulting from actual threats, leads to such levels of insecurity and frustration that they begin to grab desperately for anything and anyone that seems to provide an answer! And there many dangerously charismatic fools out there who know how to use Anarchist Rhetoric and Propaganda to attract these youths and mislead them into a dangerous, viscous cycle of conflict with those who work in Law Enforcement. This then creates a dangerous cycle of senseless conflict between to forces comprised of Adrenaline-addicted fools and Adrenaline-addicted enforcers who usually tend not to see what is really going on!

Meanwhile there are entities Way Up The Food Chain who profit from conflict, and who are forced by one another to continue doing so!

"Greenwich Village Days"

Enough BS! OBL was An Enemy of Humanity & An Enemy Combatant!

People can be so Selfish-Minded! WHEN it happens to them or their loved ones they, rightly so, want psychotic fanatic murderers to be brought to Justice, when/if possible. Clearly OBL was exactly the kind of psychopath who our Navy Seals and Special Forces had justified reason to fear might press a button and detonate something. There are those who would rather believe the False Conspiracy Theorists who want people to believe that there is no Al-Qaeda, or any other similar terrorist groups, seeking to harm US! But it is interesting to note that most of these particular doubters, skeptics and deniers did not lose a loved-one or manage to survive such cowardly and totally unjustified attack. It's similar to how people who have never been homeless tend to assume that anyone who is homeless is somehow a lazy bum and/or mentally ill person, rather than someone who has been the target of sick people who know how to use the new technologies and entities (e.g. Internet Databases, tracking systems and Private Mercenary-type Background Security Check companies, etc.) to totally disenfranchise anyone who any wealthy person or group with serious power, money and influence can target (mostly for political purposes)! Most people fail to see the World in a Psychologically Self-Aware manner and thus fail to have empathy and feel solidarity with victims of both Criminal Thugs and Criminal Thugs who happen to be Psychotic Fanatics! OBL not only declared war on US, but he actually ordered, hence 'caused', the mass murder of thousands of wonderful, innocent people on 9-11, and many others elsewhere. OBL and ASSociates murdered thousands more of those he claimed to be the champion of! And OBL and ASSociates indirectly caused the death of hundreds of millions of poor people throughout the World; consequence of the Severe Global Economic Instability that followed the 9-11 attacks! True: there are sick, selfish, Conflict-Profiteering individuals and groups who exploit these horrific attacks on US and our loved-ones! And they too are a major threat to our relatively Wise, Liberal, Democratic Civilisation! Just because there are those in our midst who allowed these psychotic fanatics to murder US does not mean that they had to create them directly! OBL and ASSociates are not entitled to the kind of legal protections we must afford non-combatants; for they were combatants! OBL was their psychotic fanatic Commander and those who are/were brainwashed by him need to be denied the means, ability and opportunity to cause US further harm! Most of the World's Muslims are against OBL and the horrific things he and his ASSociates cause(d). Those who seek to make the War Against Terrorists into a perpetual pseudo-War On Terror ("War On Terror" is an illogical term: one cannot win a war on sick attitudes that may always reappear...we can only win The War on Terrorists)...anyway...those who seek to make this a permanent war are only able to do so by falsely pointing the finger of blame on true Muslims...people who know that terrorism is forbidden! Of course; many ask: then why are most terrorist acts done by people from within Muslim societies?? It is a fair question. But the answer is not what one would expect! The answer is this: Muslim societies did not have the same lengthy period of time to evolve and progress the way predominantly Christian and Jewish societies have! First of all; Islam arose almost 500 years after the rise of the faith created by John The Baptist and almost 1800 years after MOSES was Inspired by H'SH'M (G-D) to bring US The TORAH (Ten Commandments)! Secondly: there actually was a Golden Era of mixed Islamic-Jewish Science and Intellectual Progress in some parts of the then Islamic World; especially in Moorish Spain, Egypt and a few other places, BUT this Golden Era...at a time when Europe was in the Dark Ages...was destroyed and the Islamic World, for the most part, was set backwards by the Crusades! Thirdly: the Arab Islamic tribes, until the post-World War Two Era, were set back by Imperial Colonial European powers, and this itself helped create this dangerous and psychotic extreme anti-Europeanism! And finally: the Justified Need to provide us Jews a safe-haven secular homeland (Israel), following the horrors of The Holocaust and Ages of Horrific, Totally Unjustified, Brutality of Pogroms and other Murderous, Genocidal Anti-Semitic attacks in Europe, Czarist Russia and elsewhere, was exploited by Nazi-Infiltrated Pan-Arabist Ultra-Nationalists (Baathists, Nasserists, etc.) and other anti-Jewish extremists, thus creating a very un-Islamic (i.e. contradictory, in terms of the very Teachings/Edicts of Islam) attitude within Arab and non-Arab Muslims! Such that Muslim societies have only had a few decades to begin to become healthily introspective and self-critical! Unfortunately what OBL and ASSociates have done has contributed to a severe split within most Muslim societies; for which the rest of the World also is paying a very high price!
So: to those doubters, skeptics and deniers who think Al-Qaeda is simply a fabrication created to distract us and allow thugs from within our own societies to trample upon our Constitutional Rights, Freedoms and Liberties I say this: 1. These psychotic fanatic murderers are very real, are seeking to create a pseudo-Islamic Global Caliphate by means of barbaric forms of violence, and are very much of their own making! 2. There are Conflict-Profiteers in all societies who seek to exploit these attacks...who deliberately weaken our ability to protect ourselves from these psychotic fanatic murderers. 3. Your unrealistic attitude about these things actually helps to further harm both our Socio-Economic Interests/Welfare and our Socio-Psychological Welfare, i.e. our remaining Freedoms, Liberties and Individual Rights! IN ORDER TO DEFEAT Al-Qaeda and other similarly psychotic fanatic murderers WE MUST DO ALL THREE THINGS: 1. Restore All Our G-D-given Individual Human Rights, Freedoms and Liberties, 2. Help Encourage and Strengthen those, the silent majority of truly Moderate Muslims, i.e. Real Muslims, who have, until now, lived in perpetual fear; afraid of both the kookoos in their own midst (i.e. these Psychotic Fanatic Murderers) and of those Conflict-Profiteers in our midst who seek to Perpetuate War Forever (for Profit), and 3. Have our best trained Special Forces and the forces of Moderates locate and, if possible, capture and bring to face Public Court Trials, or, if not possible, cut off the snakeheads of these groups that use clever brainwashing techniques on bored, un-imaginative, weak-minded, susceptible youths!
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD THIS HERE:
I CONDEMN IN THE STRONGEST TERMS POSSIBLE THESE BARBARIC AND TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIED ATTACKS ON EGYPTIAN COPTS AND THEIR EGYPTIAN COPTIC CHURCHES! EGYPTS COPTIC COMMUNITY ARE DESCENDANTS OF MOSEAN JEWS AND AS SUCH THEY HOLD IN THEIR TRADITIONS MANY PRICELESS VALUES!
And here are two comments I made today to a conversation of comments at The New Yorker's recent facebook posting concerning Pakistan's lack of trustworthiness:

Also: is our government, and every other major government on Earth, infiltrated by actual Nazis and other anti-Semitic Fascists who harm the reputation and interests of the majority of wonderful and decent Federal officers and officials who truly abide by Our Great Constitution? Could that be the reason we, the working poor and working middle-classes, have to suffer from all manner of criminal thugs and psychotic fanatics??

IF we leave...entirely...(I support the withdrawal, pending actual conditions, of most of our troops)...then we will leave the region open to being taken over by the forces of other powers; who have their own competing interests against ours! The World Is A Mess and Unilateral Acts, however Well-Intended in Appearance, can have Very Negative Consequences that can easily force US into even worse conflict! What we need is truly Wise and Super-Intelligent people, of a High Ethics, to Restore Sanity and Security to Our World! As Albert Einstein put it: "One cannot solve problems at the same level of intellect that caused/created them in the first place!" Where are the World's True Geniuses?

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A Poem In Tribute To Ira Cohen (1935-2011)

Ira Cohen: Mind Imprint
(A Post-Ira Poem for Ira's Memorial)

Ira Cohen...you Wild-Eyed, Wandering  Witty Wonderer! 
You dared to dare those who dared to dare those who dared!
You soared like a Silver Albatross across Sapphire Blue Skies and over Emerald Green Mountains!
You explored the Sordid Sands of Time and exposed the Slime of Swine!
You ran in Spinning-Wheel spirals and danced in a trance at The Feet of Gurus, Yogis &
Fakirs!
You drank deeply from The Eternal Stream of Sparkling Stars!
You Fought Poetically Against Unholy Wars!
You adorned the images of icons with Translucent Film and Filmed Translucency in Free-D!
You held my two Black-and-White spotted Japanese mice...how Funking nice!
You were Every Woman's, Every Man's and Every Hermaphrodite's Spice of Life!
You were Weird, Wily and Wacky...never shy, hardly dry, nor tacky...
Such that The Whole Phantasmaglorical World
of Thunderbolt Pagodas, Lightning-Flash Shamans, Dizzy-Whizzy Dervishes and Tantric Butterflies
Should and Shall Erect an Erection in Light of Your Explosively Bright Reflection!
And while you did all that your way; I'll stick to mine! 
You, the Son of The Thirteenth Tribe, The King of Bongo Bats, The Father of Flame-ish Hats!
Ira Cohen...He Who Has Set Minds Ablaze is Blazing Across The Infinite Universe!
Kol Tov!

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Philosopher/Poet, April 28, 2011. London, England.

You can read my Obituary on Ira Cohen here: http://www.jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/ira_cohen-rip

How The Mass News Media Inadvertently Endangers Everyone

Before I get into the thick of what this particular Blog post is about I should like to point out a few things about me, things that should rid anyone of any doubt about whether or not I am qualified to write this particular piece.

Back in the 80s and 90s I worked, on and off, as a Journalist, both Freelance and with various newspapers and a couple of radio stations here and there. The most prominent ones included The Jordan Times; which was at the time The Official English Language Daily of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and which, for the most part, reflected the political views acceptable to His Late Majesty King Hussein of Jordan (father of the current Jordanian Monarch), and I did some work for Radio Budapest, the English Language Short-Wave Radio broadcast of the Hungarian government, during the so-called Socialist (Warsaw-Pact) period. I had apprenticed years earlier (before my work at Radio Budapest and The J.T.) in New York City, at a few modestly-sized local and regional publications and managed to get myself on TV News a few times, especially during the two years that my rise to fame seemed almost assured. In addition to that, I have worked with a few politicians, campaigning, and political leaders. Aside from all that; I have personally known a few people who are in the thick of the National (US) and International Mass News Media, especially during the time I had my own small NGO (Non-Governmental Organisation) in Washington, DC...which also happens to be the place of my birth. So there should be no doubt that I am fairly well-acquainted with what really goes on and how it impacts upon the World and our everyday lives!

And now I will get on to what I want to say about how the Mass News Media inadvertently endangers the World (hence 'everyone').

First things first; let me qualify what I am about to say by stating the following: I am not the kind of superficial person who falls prey to those who spread dangerously false conspiracy theories and/or who wish to promote the worldview that the rich and powerful are all part of some grand, most sinister effort to enslave the majority of the masses and to wipe out any and all who would dare resist. I think such views are not based on an actual understanding of reality and how things work in the world, and I think that the world is much more complex than even most of those who also understand that it is a complex and somewhat chaotic reality, and that it is much more about an unpredictable set of conflicts than any actual conspiracies, all of which are the result of many competing interests, think it is! Even this last sentence is way too complex for most people to easily understand what I am trying to convey here. To put it as succinctly as I can: the World is neither as Conspiracy-driven as most so-called Conspiracy Theorists and Conspiracy Addicts think it is, nor as simple as too many highly educated, but poorly informed, Professional Academics think it is! In a nutshell: the World is a mess and we're fast heading for even worse trouble! But I do think that such utter chaos, and its horrific consequences, can be averted and that there is some hope that we will eventually get out of this Strobe-Light Chaotic Era, that is too chaotic to call a New Dark Ages...even if it does share some of the horrors of the Dark Ages itself.

The General Problem
(if you are someone well-informed about the Mass News Media; then you will know these things)

The supposed role of the Mass News Media is to properly inform the general public about what is actually happening in our World so that people can make informed decisions about how they conduct their affairs, including their personal lives, their business or work-related situations and how they vote and/or seek to influence their elected representatives. At least that is the role that the Mass News Media should play, regardless of whether it is otherwise run as part of a commercial, for-profit, interest or as a supposedly more-objective public, not-for-profit, interest. And for a healthy Democracy to exist...for a Democracy to exist and continue to exist at all...it is vitally important that the Mass News Media avoid inadvertently becoming such a factor in the equation that it, in the end, begins to be a major catalyst in creating major situations by having manipulated the public's perception of 'reality' to the point that the public is actually misinformed, be that deliberately so or unintentionally, and then makes a terribly dangerous mix of decisions, some of which will surely be harmful to society and to global economic stability and security! After all; if people get information that is almost entirely false or even just partly false then they will tend to act upon such information, and there will even be a significant but growing minority that will distrust almost all sources of information and begin to formulate their own theories, which will tend to be dangerous to the overall interests of society and the world! In a sense, news reporting is no different than scientific observation: the very technology and/or method of observation can alter what it is we are trying to observe, and worse yet; the Editorial policies of those who control what ultimately ends up being communicated to the general public is too often tainted by the manner in which, directly or indirectly, the Publisher and the Advertisers, i.e. the Corporate Interests, put pressure on the Editors or simply manage to manipulate the attitude of the Editors, etc. BUT this is not what I am ultimately getting at; it is simply to help you understand just how things work in the Mass News Media world (for people like Fareed Zakaria this will be elementary knowledge and rather boring). The bottom line: since every individual person, Reporters and Editors alike, come with their own set of biases, i.e. lack of actual, total objectivity, and since a major bias comes into play when one's income (wages/money) is at stake, chances are that even the least biased and most objective Mass News Media entity (news company, -paper, TV, magazine, etc.) will not be able to provide us enough of the actual story so that we can then act properly upon it. But even as things are never as simple as we might like them to be, and there are many shades of grey, there are some Journalists/Reporters and Editors who truly seek to take all these things into consideration and make the very best effort to provide us with as accurate a picture of things as possible!

The Specific Problem

One of the worst things that has happened to our Mass New Media in general, especially in the latter half of the 20th Century and going on into this 21st Century, is that when it seeks so-called expert opinions, such as when it seeks to review the day's or week's news, it tends to be too narrowly dependent on what it, and society in general, assume are the opinions of those who would seem to be the most qualified to 'help us' formulate a much better understanding of what is going on in the World, and why it is going on, and what is likely to happen next! That is to say; the Mass News Media has become, like the rest of society's decision-making bodies and institutions, over-reliant on a limited set of perspectives, much to the detriment of society's overall interests as a whole! For example; on Fareed Zakaria's GPS on CNN the panel of experts tends to be a mix of formally accredited Professional Academics (in the relevant fields concerned) and recognised political figures whose past experience would seem to make them more likely to be qualified to give us meaningful, additional insight. And, of course, some of the panel members, may not be the best minds on the topic concerned, but at least they have some degree of celebrity status and popular appeal, which helps boost the news show's (news program's) ratings! But this tendency is very dangerous, I dare say! Because not only does it leave out the voices of those who are the most obviously unsettling...and let us put aside the issue of whether or not one can have a meaningful news-review show with such dissonant voices present....but it even fails to invite the voices (alternative viewpoints) of those who have somehow managed to become sufficiently erudite and well-informed, who can read-between-the-lines, but who are also not as biased as those who currently tend to make up these panels, because they are not owned by anyone or any entity, commercial, political or otherwise, but who are actually voices which, as of lately, almost never get heard! Mind you, I am not talking about so-called Alternative Thinkers like Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins and Michael Moore; for they are very much biased by their massive commercial successes and by the fact that they did not have the kind of unusual lives that culminate from having been able to actually live at various levels of society, both socio-economically and intellectually! It is my sincere opinion that while it is truly wise of the Mass News Media to avoid regularly pandering or catering to people like Alex Jones, David Icke and Ron Paul, it is harmful and dangerous that the Mass News Media does not open itself to those Auto-didactic types who, by mere evidence of anything that they can put down on paper (articles they write) demonstrate that they are clearly capable of formulating Well-Reasoned Opinions and offering very practical/useful alternative insight, yet who have, for some reason or another, been constantly ignored by the book publisher's and by the Mass News Media simply because they are not Formally Accredited Professional Academics, Experts and/or Experienced Politicians and Decision-makers! But, you may ask, WHY? Why exactly does the general public need to hear the Alternative Opinions, Perspectives, Insight of those rare few types of people who somehow have both a broad and yet somewhat deep view of what is actually going on in the World?!? Simple; because it is such unusual voices that tend to have in past History helped make the World a much better place. In days of old it was people like Baruch Spinoza, Giordano Bruno, Nikola Tesla, etc., whose unusual personalities, hence perspectives, stimulated the minds, views and decisions of less unusual yet vastly more influential persons! And it is this very absence of such alternative yet sensible voices that contributes to a dangerous assumption that the only voices worth hearing from are those who have managed to acquire such formal accreditation and who are hence considered well-vetted by those who would and should be concerned about preventing superficially-minded yet charismatic hate-and-fear-mongering false Individualists from having easy access to the general public. After all; anyone who seeks to Lead others in an un-Democratic way is, ipso-facto, not a true Individualist; for they are willing to deny all others the power of the public's attention and thus their very worldview is not worthy of those who seek to strengthen the overall welfare and better interests of society and the World! In other words; what I am saying...implying...is also that it is no wonder that in the absence of such voices as my very own, for anyone who takes the trouble/effort to examine my particulars can easily ascertain whether or not I am a prime example of such a rare alternative voice,....in the absence of such refreshingly alternative voices, the voices of Autodidactic Individualists, it is no wonder that more and more people are beginning to lose their ability to trust the Mass News Media, and are beginning to perceive the Mass News Media as nothing more than clever efforts by Corporate Elites and their crony political stooges to deliberately misinform and manipulate the general public! Mind you; this is not exactly how I see it, but I have to agree that there is more than just a grain of truth in what more and more average members of society are beginning to conclude.

But, you may still ask, how does all that in any mean that the whole World is at risk?

When policies do not reflect the true will of the people, when Democracies are Democracies only in name, and have begun to turn, more and more so, into Plutocracies, which we all know are tantamount to Corporate Fascist systems, where Profits matter more than People and more than the Quality of Life itself, then we know, from previous Historical evidence, that in such a dishonest, distrustful and destructive environment paranoia begins to grow in leaps and bounds and eventually such systems themselves begin to falter and fall and in their place greater chaos and worse horrors follow, and eventually another set of false heroes comes forth to save the day, only to turn out to be even more ruthless anti-Democratic dictators! Except that in our current World Situation (global set of circumstances), what with all the unimaginably dangerous technologies that already exist, both known and unknown to the general public,....except that this time we are more likely to see the Total Collapse of Civilisation the World-over, IF we continue going this way! And IF there is any real hope at all, then it must come not from the dangerous agenda-driven, demagogue minds of dangerous people like Alex Jones, but from the next generation of Spinozas, of Sensible pro-Moderate Democratic Thinkers, of Autodidactic Individualists who will almost always tend to be Real Philosophers (not Professors of Philosophy), and who will definitely be champions of promoting a much greater and deeper understanding of the indispensable importance of Real Ethics in Science, Technology, Society, Politics and the Private Sector!

CASE MADE & CLOSED!

NOTE: The author, Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, is an American-Jewish Philosopher and is Independent of any group, organisation or other entity other than himself. He is an Autodidactic Individualist.

PS: Fareed; what is your sincere opinion on this?