Enlightened Thought

First I want to comment about previous posts about Obama that I wrote a while ago. President Obama has backed off his war against Fox News. It appears this was an ill fated strategy to promote his ideals that ultimately ended up polarizing the opposing factions even more than what they were.

Fox News is in no respect a news organization with journalistic integrity. For example, when Congressman Ron Paul ran for President back in 2008, Fox News was blatantly putting him down any chance they got. Fox News now supports the Tea Party Movement whose support base, in large part, were former supporters of Ron Paul. They are now spoon-feeding this movement with a new figurehead, Sarah Palien. Nice work Fox News.......

Which now leads me to the Enlightened Thought portion of this post. I have always been aware of the bias that Fox News presents, but I never really put its bias into a context in which it tries to control its viewers. I agree with conservative thought but I have lost any viewer ship status with Fox News due to its blatant corruption of the conservative view it presents. Not only do they have a bias against liberal ideology, but they also corrupt their own viewpoint for the sake of what I would call "good news". To be safe, I would recommend that everyone avoid cable news all together. Their interests do not lie in journalism but rather their own ratings.

The idea for this post was spawned by a conversation I had with my friend about radical literature. I cited that the people who watch Cable News were like the people in Fahrenheit 451. Fahrenheit 451, being a piece of radical literature itself is about getting radical literature into the hands of everyone. We came to the conclusion that radical literature has an intended audience consisting of those who can actually be objective when reading it. The irony of Fahrenheit 451 was exposed! Assuming that most people are sheep, they would not read literature objectively. This would make said literature just as worthless as the tv they were watching.

The connection was made between the paragraph above and classic American democracy, which is the educated members of society should have the say in what happens for the country as a whole. Current political atmosphere dictates that this philosophy is flawed, but one cannot ignore the thought process behind it. Can "enlightenment" be reached by society or is it forsaken to sheepdom? This is the question that influences our view of the world.

By the way, my blog posts have become predominantly more meaningful than what the blog describes what they ought to be. Believe it or not, this was an attempt to get back to the philosophical genre that I had originally intended for this blog.