Are we in a Critical Media Crisis?

[thepainterdoug]

Things happen around us we cannot know about and so we need storytellers to get the story.
In this case I'm referring to: World events: the story , and the storyteller: the media.

To have several variations of a story is fine ,understanding several varying points of view.

But the" mainstay" of the story needs to be accurate to the actual reality .
What actually happened and what is true and false ? Would you agree?

I have come to realize that today we are in a true media crisis.

I, who is coined a "conspiracy theorist" by some , have shared my views with what now has become the other groups counter term, " the normies".

And one could or would think that all would be informed of each other's positions and possibly understand the origins? I am certainly aware of the mainstream story, but the other is
NOT TRUE

In making my point and debating people, it has all hit a dead end.

There is no talking to people who have not even heard of very key, critical and important issues.
How can there be?

So many people, while telling me their position, hatred for Trump or their support of todays liberalism,also say they never heard of Klaus Schwab or the WEF or Davos, the Illuminati, the Bilderberg, agenda 2030 and many others

They never heard of building 7 while arguing 9/11. This and other reasons are why I cannot respect their opinion.
Its analogous to someone not hearing anything about Adolf Hitler during his rise, yet arguing Germanys situation then.

So the division between our storytellers is a huge problem . And those who know this seek a deeper truth by way alt media, citizens journalism and so on. and the normies never heard of any of this.

We all know the phrases, "history is written by the winners," and "it's not the vote, but those who count the vote that matters " as well as many more

I feel we are in a costly media crisis and its a race against time because this situation could and will deeply affect the world we know if not somehow rectified.

[ExomatrixTV]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
I, who is coined a "conspiracy theorist" by some, have shared my views with what now has become the other groups counter term, "the normies".

Having a conspiracy theory is not that different from having a crime theory ... so who exactly benefits if certain crime theories are not further investigated and systematically downplayed & marginalized?

* If a conspiracy is (partly) in the open does NOT make it any less criminal nor less harmful ...

John Kuhles 2023 🦜🦋🌳

* source

[thepainterdoug]

John yes. I guess the CIA FBI really hit a winner following the JFK assissination by popularizing that term .

It has stuck like glue for any all reasons for dismissal, regaring peoples comfort zones.

[Artemesia]

It has long occured to me there is No functioning media, and I would include much of the alt media in that as well as it was certainly hijacked and undermined to be ineffective or untrustworthy (not all cases but many) so that it is simply yet another morass to wade through.

The real problem with this is that in a world of chaotic forces this means that good information to guide an accurate perception of reality to make GOOD choices about how to proceed in the face of those forces (particularly like when to evacuate or in circumstances where there is an imminent threat to personal safety) now requires one be 100% dedicated to personal situational awareness. Having good community contacts for real time accurate observational information is mission critical to this. And having a personal intuition that one trusts and utilizes to guide one in where to look for good data and making good choices is key.

While the media mess is unfortunate, I try to look at the positives in it in that for a population that has largely become complacent, apathetic, distracted and non-intuitve, relegating authority to almost entirely external sources, this affords an opportunity for a fast-track graduate level Earth School coursework option to really let go of all that does not serve.

As a humorous anecdote … once when my daughter was a toddler she needed a diaper change and in her way of ‘asking’ for help with that, smeared poop all over the television screen!! While having the unpleasant motherly task of cleaning it up, the power button kept being pushed into the on position, and the news channel was playing, and I said to myself — or maybe the Universe itself was indicating it to me in a very literal sense — ‘wow, this really underscores the reality of ‘the crap on TV!!”’ It was a funny wake up call to just turn that mind control off and source relevant data points elsewhere entirely. i think it was a week later that I hauled the tv into the back of the car and proudly deposited it on the receiving bay of a local thrift shop. It was a great day in our household, felt like a graduation of sorts.

[thepainterdoug]

Artemesia

I enjoyed you response and story about the poop tv. Thanks. I guess for me it comes down to having as best a "complete knowing", vs a selective knowing to protect ones comfort zone.

During 9/11 which I witnessed from across the river, a friend wanted me to stop telling him stuff that didn't add up about the incident because I was destroying his comfort zone.

[Ewan]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
because I was destroying his comfort zone.

Ah yes, the 'please don't shatter my illusions plea'. I know it well.

[Artemesia]

I have a little ‘teachable moment’ description I use when people roll out the ‘conspiracy theory’ term when I try to talk to them.

If thousands of people not only in our current day all across the globe describe encounters with aliens/ETs/otherworldly or extradimensional beings and craft, but those same or similar eyewitness observations are echoed across thousands of years of recorded history across all cultures and methods of communication such as art, glyphs, poem, songs, myth and written documented experience across time, then the presence of alien interaction with Earth humans is NOT a conspiracy ‘theory’, it is FACT. All modern descriptions and conventions of what constitutes ‘scientifically verified fact’ supports this. So, by logic, if you continue to use the derogatory term of ‘conspiracy theory’ when referring to a body of evidence that also constitutes verifiable fact, you are in a logical fallacy that must be resolved for a variety of reasons.

This usually causes an abrupt pause in the conversation at which point I am dismissed entirely.

That comfort zone busting piece!! As an indigo type person, its not an uncommon response, I am used to it by now as I fully accept the responsibility for my choice to incarnate as a comfort zone buster. A family member used to say to me in exasperation for my way of interacting, ‘way to win friends and influence people Annalie!”. Once I accepted that I am neither here to win friends NOR influence people but rather to be a living embodiment and energetic place holder for that which most people do NOT want to see or know and would be much more comfortable ignoring, it all got easier. Took some getting used to. I did not come to Earth to be comfortable, or go on vacation. Too much at stake for that!!

[norman]

The Marconi company was a fake in the beginning.

British secret service stole one of Tesla's inventions and set up the company for their use. From there it rolled into America via the RCA company.

It's never been anything other than a mind control tool.

[thepainterdoug]

Artemesia. I agree with what you say and your closing line, " too much at stake for that"

what in your estimation is at stake?

[Heart to heart]

Thepainterdoug

As an artist and musician, and I suspect a poet as well, you have always been connected to a higher consciousness that has given you the gift of The KNOWING.
We cannot change another no matter how much we know or sense, we can only be an example of that KNOWING and become the love that that encapsulates.
The secret of peace within is having the ACCEPTANCE without judgement of what the world appears to be creating, the dystopia and madness being presented in the MSM.
You have the ability to paint your own picture with the power of your palette and words and the knowing, so just allow people to be who they choose, while you help to create a different picture, a world that you wish to live in and those of us who are doing just that.
Walk in love, share that love and create with love. We are that Rainbow Bridge.❤️🌈❤️

[thepainterdoug]

Heart to Heart a wonderful message for me and i thank you. But Im am not just about myself, and my world. I have a son, and others have children and so I must comment and express my pain and concern for all, regardless of my blessings.

All my work, all my art and my efforts have to do with a bigger picture . And I believe it has moved the needle for positive in a small way. My way, what I can offer.

and at the same time, I always know, things are as they should be. It's an odd reality to live with and balance .

[T Smith]

I don't like using the term "media," or "news," at all. Much like the term "conspiracy theory", which triggers a psychological response to content, there are also deep-seated, subconscious implications undergirding the terms "media" and "news". "Media" implies some degree of direct, first-hand reporting on reality, and "news" implies some degree of interpreting that reality. Those of us clever enough to understand the "news media" itself is a biased system, still inaccurately perceive it as some interpretation of reality, albeit a biased, or agenda-driven interpretation. But that's not even what's going on here--not in the least.

So I don't think we're in a "media crisis", per say. We have a propaganda crisis, whereby the vast majority of its consumers are unwittingly being programmed by Statist propaganda (and I even include those who understand they're being programmed), but who nonetheless subconsciously perceive the program as something other than what it is, as some version of reality. That's why we tend to get frustrated (and critical of media) when our mediated experience, via mainstream media, doesn't dovetail with reality at all or with our direct experience. Hence many people begin to suspect the "media isn't doing it's job" or is "corrupted", and many of us come to the conclusion that we are amid a media crisis...

The news media is not in crisis. Because its content is not a version of reality to begin with. It's but a hypnotic program of control. Pure, unaduterated, Corporate/Statist propaganda, which is just another way of saying a fascist system of mind control. If the propaganda so happens to report on factual events (e.g, flight 454 crashed over the ocean, or 6" of snow fell in Anchorage, Alaska today), it's because the programers are okay with and/or want the plebs to know about those particular facts, i.e., benign bits of reality and truth which serve to augment the subject's state of hypnosis.

Propaganda is not a version of reality. It's a magician's trick; it's mind control.

Orange man bad is mind control.

Ignorance of the power centers that shape our world and geopolitics, e.g. WEF, Davos, Illuminati, Bilderberg, Federal Reserve, etc., and ignorance of reality itself, e.g. the controlled demolition of building 7 and the physics behind melted/dustified steel--I could go on and on--is mind control.

So we have a crisis of mind control.

But I do understand the frustration in the opening post. We are trying to communicate with people who are hypnotized and in a mind-altered state, whereby reason, logic, verifiable facts, and common sense are not antidotes to the spell. I don't claim to understand the psychology behind it. It's frightening, freakish, and downright beggars belief.

All said, the media is functioning exactly as it's intended, to deceive and manipulate and maintain an illusion of reality; it's only in crisis to those who are consuming something other than what they think they are consuming, which again, is a crisis of mind, not a crisis of media. IMHO.

[Artemesia]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Artemesia. I agree with what you say and your closing line, " too much at stake for that"

what in your estimation is at stake?

Well to answer that I absolutely concur with Heart to Heart in allowance and acceptance and letting go is creating a bridge to another more benevolent reality!

That said, in my understanding the hijacked architecture that has occurred in earth, in this 3D reality and the other dimensional realities that run in parallells or what is sometimes termed harmonic triads, has had incredible ripple effects that extend far out into other sectors of this galaxy and our sister galaxy, Andromeda (which is in my avatar picture). If one grasps the holographic nature of reality and understands that Earth is a very unique place in that it offers a holographic construct of all the other constellations in our galaxy and those interlocking nodal points connect via the planet’s own ley line structures, then the maneuvers being made in the 3D earth reality and those impacts into the natural world, all the other plant and animal species here, and their connections and unique energetic placement here as representitives of other galactic and cosmic beings, then…. even the smallest interaction with THIS 3D playing field is having extraordinary implications for other dimensions. I beleive this is why there is so much attendtion being placed by such a wide array of beings right here, right now. I mean there are like 7 billion embodied souls on the surface right now?! That is a LOT of attention! And it is also such a mish mash of presences, all kinds of factions and types of beings in human form… surely we would not all have been sent here as representitives of our soul and monadic level families, ancestral lines, starseeded (ETs in human bodies) forms if something REALLy big wasnt going on. And I dont think what is happening here has ever happened before, ever! Its why letting go of attachment to outcome and being adept at making situational awareness maneuvers is so critical — there is zero way to make accurate predictions right now, all divination is just right out the window when it may have worked before.

Bottom line is that to me, the interconnectivity strings are wound so incredibly tightly right now that the teensiest move on one filament can have a whole lot of impacts and reprecussions far far out into the field lines right now, throughout the dimensions. Its why many of us have been baby step working on being more multidimensional for some time now. It takes a lot of maturity and restraint to be able to tightrope walk that skillfully.

This is where Heart to Heart’s wisdom fits in…. Gentle, kind, loving maneuvers are the most amenable to that level of delicate balance needed to create that gossamer bridge we so dearly need and have been working to build as a species for generations upon generations. I think honoring what it had taken to be nurtured to the nexus of this moment we collectively and individually find ourselves in is in order. It affords the solemn respect and gratitude required to hold this ‘tension of the opposites’ with the most grace for the highest expression and most divine possible outcome — in complete unattachment for what that may be. Not easy. Exactly zero shortcuts. And no media coverage!

[thepainterdoug]

Artyemesa/ your quote/ "This is where Heart to Heart’s wisdom fits in…. Gentle, kind, loving maneuvers are the most amenable to that level of delicate balance needed to create that gossamer bridge we so dearly need and have been working to build as a species for generations upon generations. "

all this is beautiful and I am present to this as many are here at avalon are. But I asked, what you meant by, much is at stake? Is that the answer?

I am an artist, an empath and an intuitive, but my dad was a car dealer! And he had a good deal of "kick the tires" in him, and so do I . He had a boots on the ground reality that I too have and struggle with at times.
The one that says help the homeless person in front of you, rather than, its perfect as is. The one that says, protect my child from this mugger rather than its all as it should be and let him be mugged
The one that resists the lies and tryes to right the wrongs that are in front of me.

How do you reconcile these realities, in reality, not theory.

[thepainterdoug]

T Smith I feel you are expressing much of what I said but in a more elevated , nuanced and refined manner. I wrote it for a more common knowing.

Yes propaganda, but many would also say, what? where? and by who?

A news media, if created by an evenly funded source, with no political or financial agenda, HA HA HA, would be required.

all this said. we have people , trusted with a vote, totally believeing one thing, and another group, completely believing another. One knows what the other does, and the other only knows what they know without the other.

[Artemesia]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
Artyemesa/ your quote/ "This is where Heart to Heart’s wisdom fits in…. Gentle, kind, loving maneuvers are the most amenable to that level of delicate balance needed to create that gossamer bridge we so dearly need and have been working to build as a species for generations upon generations. "

all this is beautiful and I am present to this as many are here at avalon are. But I asked, what you meant by, much is at stake? Is that the answer?

I am an artist, an empath and an intuitive, but my dad was a car dealer! And he had a good deal of "kick the tires" in him, and so do I . He had a boots on the ground reality that I too have and struggle with at times.
The one that says help the homeless person in front of you, rather than, its perfect as is. The one that says, protect my child from this mugger rather than its all as it should be and let him be mugged
The one that resists the lies and tryes to right the wrongs that are in front of me.

How do you reconcile these realities, in reality, not theory.

I think what is at stake is how we individually are able to move into the next age/aeon or epoch and how the soul growth we acheived for ourselves and our ancestral/genetic line will be likewise impacted by the clearing and growth we are doing now. For those beings with connections to the star races, and future embodiment cycles where lessons learned here will be called upon for the ongoing sorting out of the mess that we on ground crew know all too well, will also be affected.

I guess I included the gentle piece maybe because it is a reminder to myself? I am very sensitive but the battle and a half I have had to find place, access the means to survival, find ways to heal, and all the while protect myself from an incredible amount of attacks in just trying to hold that space has been… a lot. I have become a fierce warrior in all that. But… more than ever I find the gentle warriors are often the most effective. But going into battle makes that perspective blurry, I think.

A dear friend, also an artist, recently replied to a story of my current trials and trevails of selling my own art:

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.”

So my fierce has been hard won, and yet I look forward to a time when the garden is more peaceful as well. I have a sense that the warrior aspect is going to be needed and necessary for some time yet to come, in this body and the next station of identity for me, whatever that may be. But tempering that with a greater impulse for gentle awareness for the intricacies of balance is also important.

Its hard to remember when you are often forced into situations requiring one to be a skillful stealthy scrapper.

[shaberon]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
There is no talking to people who have not even heard of very key, critical and important issues.
How can there be?

I am still working on this.

I have had success when being able to put time into getting to know someone, let them open up, you find something. But, no, for most practical purposes, no one listens.

My grandfather was right about a few things and one was "It will reach a point where we can't talk to each other any more". At the time he said this, it did not apply and wouldn't even have made sense, but, I remembered what he said and that is indeed the story that has unfolded.

A few months ago someone made the suggestion to be blatantly superficial and say up front that "A lot of what I say may surprise and challenge you in an unpleasant way."

I haven't heard of anyone actually doing it yet.

I also notice the "comfort zone" thing brought up over and over, and, last time I checked, this is not a given right or anything, and I have only grown by having mine stepped on and discarded many times. Can't even get to it right now. Comparatively, I have to understand myself as someone whose:


Mental contents are almost entirely different besides sharing a language

Emotional contents are genuinely burned


leaving it next to impossible for the school of fish to pay attention to me.


It would be easier just to replace the authorities.

When thought of as mind control, this is quickly and easily achieved by withholding information, so, it can be explained that what you don't know can and will be used against you.

I don't foresee much smooth sailing through the comfort thing. If no one listens, once the pieces start falling, they can decide again what they want to listen to.

[T Smith]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
T Smith I feel you are expressing much of what I said but in a more elevated , nuanced and refined manner. I wrote it for a more common knowing.

Yes propaganda, but many would also say, what? where? and by who?

A news media, if created by an evenly funded source, with no political or financial agenda, HA HA HA, would be required.

all this said. we have people , trusted with a vote, totally believeing one thing, and another group, completely believing another. One knows what the other does, and the other only knows what they know without the other.

Yes, I was ranting in the abstract (apologies), but on a practical footing we could start by rescinding the Smith-Mundt Act of 2012, which essentially legalized propaganda. Operation Mockingbird was alive and well before this, but after 2012, there is basically no more apologizing for or hiding the level of deception/lies that takes place in the media. No one is accountable. We could also institute anti-trust laws and "break up" Big Media, e.g., the five corporations that control 90% or more of the information flow, in a similar way that we broke up Standard Oil in 1911. Or we could disallow corporate/government sponsors to control media content. How that's done, I don't know, but I would imagine it would entail "capping" a certain percentage of overall sponsorship of advertising revenue, similar to campaign contribution laws.

No "democracy" or "republic" can function without an accurate flow of information to its constituents and stakeholders (namely, the people). I don't care who said it, it's true.... information is the currency of democracy.

There are ways to reform the crisis.

[jaybee]

Posted by thepainterdoug (here)
So the division between our storytellers is a huge problem .

This is the 'special message' that plays at the end of the film 'Sound of Freedom' -

The lead actor, Jim Caviezel, who is portraying Tim Ballard and his heroic actions to save children from the most terrible evil - delivers a special message to the theatre goers -

(@1:54)'....the most powerful person in this world is the Storyteller.....'


Sound of Freedom special ending message.(3:19)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Icu6Gw8YJkA

he says that this movie was made 5 years ago and everything was done to stop it coming out ... even in the local cinema I went to to see it someone said there are less showings of it than other films like for example 'Barbie'....


I also noticed that most people will probably be missing the 'special message' at the end because as the credits are rolling for 2 - 3 minutes the lights go up and in the corner at the bottom there is a small count down to the message but it was very easy to miss.... the only reason I knew something was coming up was because someone had remarked to me outside the cinema before it started that there was a message from the producer at the end... (it was actually from Jim Caviezel)

There weren't many people there at the 12:20 pm showing everyone except me left before the special message -so I was sitting alone watching it - the lights went down again for it but it was too late everyone had gone - and I might of had I not known something was coming up....


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Those who control the Story - the Official Narrative - have the ultimate power to control The People - the Alternative Media do a good job countering the Official Stories (fake Pandemic - Ukraine - Trump etc)... but the EPTB (evil powers that be).... are obviously trying to stop all that and rein it in - so fake stories and fake people are inserted to confuse and muddy the waters - and laws are gradually being brought in to put a stop to it... for example the new European Law... The Digital Services Act...that is presented as something good but essentially will shut down free speech on the internet in the EU because platforms and service providers will be fined (and removed?) if they don't comply with authoritarian dictats - which ultimately are to protect their lies... :/


So the situation is critical - as the main Story aka the Official Narrative - and the main stream Storytellers are going to fight tooth and nail to remain the dominant Storytellers - and the billionaire / trillionaire globalist elite own and control the MSM -- - - - -

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Those involved and profiting in some way from the most lucrative and dreadful evil in the world today - the slavery, sexual abuse and torture of children - certainly appear to overlap into the world of MSM .... that's a crisis of monumental proportions -

That's why they don't like the film 'Sound of Freedom' and ignore it as much as possible...

[Matthew]

People literally believe what they want to believe, not just to deny the horrific but also to fit in. These two factors are huge but it's natural and it's easy to see how this works for them. We don't easily get to go against the press machine to break other people's trust. When trust is broken though then belief is shattered and that's been happening more and will continue to happen. But only because tPtb are pushing so hard they are breaking their own trust. But for the die-hards who don't want to doubt, then it's going to be heart breaking for them. Who would want to swap a warm cozy terrestrial trust belief system for something approaching a cosmic horror? This is the media's fault, yes we are in a media crisis. They were meant to drip feed us bad news, but its full on behavioral engineering. It was bad before 2020 then it went silly.

This summarises the state of mainstream press over the last three and a half years:




"Conspiracy theorist" became a worse slur very recently, although it was always a weaponised term. It accompanies the backlog of untold bad-news, and there's a kind of surface tension between 'common knowledge of the bad news' and 'trust in the state'. And the state are still ploughing on with shattering people's trust. It's like they haven't even gotten started.

The press have corrupted common knowledge and overstepped the mark with behavioural engineering. The press will never change, they will be attempting behavioural engineering with their last dying printed word.