A Crucial Prerequisite
Moral-Less Talking Heads
A prerequisite to stoking moral outrage are morals to stoke
An often overlooked vital ingredient, especially among all those morally outraged, moral-less talking heads who will never shut up about it, is having any sort of morals in the first place to outrage.
This is one of the reasons I no longer have a television (haven’t for years), and would never get one.
There is something about the oozing self-importance of these morally outraged talking heads that just rubs me the completely wrong way. And since we have long since left the non-partisan, objective exchange of views behind — roadkill as it were — there is nothing to be gained from paying even the slightest of attention.
We know, based on the known branding of the television or radio station — whether left, right, far left, far right, or of the exceptionally rare objective middle — what is going to come out of these oh, so important mouths. So, unless you just need to top up on your own outrage, i.e., you’re in total agreement with what’s being screamed about and just watch for entertainment and fuel, what’s the point of watching — we know what’s coming and we know it doesn’t mean a thing. It’s all for show and advertising revenue.
Long gone are the days of Cronkite’s “And that’s the way it is” (which you could take to the bank). Even the concept of “fake news” had yet to become a gleam in some ultra-partisan eye. Today, if you have as many as two brain cells to knock together you know that you cannot rely on the veracity of what’s being spouted over the air. You know that, so why even watch or listen?
Beats me.
The original ending of Hans Christian Anderssen’s fairy tale about the vain emperor has the little boy observe, and loudly at that: “But the Emperor has nothing on.” And the crowd suddenly has their collective scales fall from collective eyes and see that as true. From the mouth of babes, et cetera.
The current ending of the same fairy tale goes:
“But the Emperor has nothing on,” said the little boy.
“We know,” said the crowd.
© Wolfstuff
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