The Polarizing View of The Year Ending 2009 News Cycle
December 20th 2009 09:09
One could say that the ending of a “change” year could serve as a marker for a society that has chosen to embark on a new direction.
A new direction of openness in the way we approach problems and build paths to a better tomorrow.
These were the things we were told that we could look forward to in the “new” beginning that was foretold as the year 2009 but from a realistic point of view nothing has changed except for the perception of the game.
The game that builds up iconic heroes to symbolize a changing of the guard or the spirit behind a movement to change the face of sports or the way a political structure works.
Through these societal figures we build up things like hope for a level playing field where road blocks may have hindered progress by way of access and rally around societal figures who we build up to unrealistic societal status.
Status that can only result in failure when we realize that these men and women are the fallible human beings that reflect everything we see in our every day lives.
It is for this reason and this reason alone that parades are formed around a golfer who did nothing more than become a master of the game he spent his whole life training for and is also the reason why it is such big news when the public discovers that he is capable of missteps and transgressions like so many other athletes of yesteryear.
If it were not for the iconic rise and eventual fall there would not be headline news and we must accept this as a society to move on.
It’s the polarized view points of everything he brought to the conversation and everything that has been lost by his fall.
Lost is the angel like demeanor that was put on his shoulders for doing nothing more than rolling with a media czars campaign of laying low and not saying anything which has been replaced by a societal grouping of his character with that of accused murders and killers of animals for sport.
The headline photo’s are no longer of a man who smiled and laughed through his love of a game but is rather a dark depiction of his toughest moments on the course in a power play to skew the view on the topic of how we can raise a man or woman so high only to watch them fall so far.
Has our society become so jaded with expectations of everything we believe a person should be that we lose our minds when someone breaks the mold?
What’s behind the hoisting and throwing away of iconic heroes is a product of our societal need to view the world from our caves.
Caves of misunderstanding where we tell ourselves how people of a certain gender, race, sexual orientation, political belief or from a certain region of the United States or the World should act, think, walk, talk and live their lives.
These things have been so engrained into our psyche that we latch onto someone or anyone who can break the mold and raise them up high for simply being anomalies to the machine.
We call these men and women heroes for a cause and blindly push them into roles of societal icons for innovating movements.
Movements that are thrust into simple marketable terms but represent larger problems that plague the world as a whole.
It is the problem of how we deal with a history of race, an environment in crisis, ensuring that every American has the same advantages to living a healthy life, leveling the playing field for people of all races, sexual orientations and genders along with finding a way for Americans of every religion and political belief to co-exist in an age of intolerance.
An age where the middle ground has been pushed to the back burner for the simple statement of I’m right and you’re wrong….
One could say that this statement is more effective in solving some of society’s greatest problems but this same philosophy has also been used by some of the world’s most notorious criminals and dictators and stands against everything set forth in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Instead of having sensible conversations about the destruction of the Earth the topic has been broken down to the rise and fall of “experts “in the industry who are bent on fame and conjecture and less about the topic and finding solutions.
No matter the amount of data that can be accepted or refuted on the topic of Global Warming we have a serious problem.
A problem that bears proof with the Polar Ice Caps melting at an alarming rate, erratic global temperature rise and radical change in weather patterns with no way of conclusively proving or disproving the cause.
What may or may not be a natural occurrence in the cycle of the Earth has been met with the products of an industrial society and there is no man or woman on this Earth who can say our existence on the planet and current lifestyles are not affecting the problem.
When conversations of a serious nature are broken down to an examination of an individual’s intention or career advancement we lose the original intent behind the discussion.
A discussion that was meant to open our eyes, ears and minds to the things that are happening on the planet and the lasting affects our daily activities are having on a global crisis.
A crisis that should be about more than Al Gore as a man or a group of scientists who cooked up data to make the issue more than it is.
The conversation should have started with global warming and branched out to the accomplishments that have been made in working with corporations to limit smog, the banning of C4’s that were destroying the ozone layer and to look to the future in creating new standards in efficiency for vehicles that are being designed for our children’s future.
When we truly take a look at the things in our year ending cycle it can appear as a group of stories that paint a dark outlook on the future of mankind.
A story that breaks down the walls of everything we see happening in the world and shakes the very core of everything we envision it to be.
Behind the polarized news headlines that are meant to evoke a sense of us versus them is a conversation that is waiting for the voices of world citizens like you.
A voice of the world citizen who has the ability to believe the world is in crisis without the approval of a group scientists or a spokesperson like Al Gore...
A voice of the world citizen who can appreciate an athlete’s talent without trying to lift him into a societal icon who can somehow solve rthe world's problem with race…
It’s our ability to think and form our own opinions that separates us from pack animals.
In a technological age of extremes it’s a battle for us not fall into the trap of social thought but like most things in life this ideal falls into the category of using the inalienable right we’re given to think for ourselves or wasting it.
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A new direction of openness in the way we approach problems and build paths to a better tomorrow.
These were the things we were told that we could look forward to in the “new” beginning that was foretold as the year 2009 but from a realistic point of view nothing has changed except for the perception of the game.
The game that builds up iconic heroes to symbolize a changing of the guard or the spirit behind a movement to change the face of sports or the way a political structure works.
Through these societal figures we build up things like hope for a level playing field where road blocks may have hindered progress by way of access and rally around societal figures who we build up to unrealistic societal status.
Status that can only result in failure when we realize that these men and women are the fallible human beings that reflect everything we see in our every day lives.
It is for this reason and this reason alone that parades are formed around a golfer who did nothing more than become a master of the game he spent his whole life training for and is also the reason why it is such big news when the public discovers that he is capable of missteps and transgressions like so many other athletes of yesteryear.
If it were not for the iconic rise and eventual fall there would not be headline news and we must accept this as a society to move on.
It’s the polarized view points of everything he brought to the conversation and everything that has been lost by his fall.
Lost is the angel like demeanor that was put on his shoulders for doing nothing more than rolling with a media czars campaign of laying low and not saying anything which has been replaced by a societal grouping of his character with that of accused murders and killers of animals for sport.
The headline photo’s are no longer of a man who smiled and laughed through his love of a game but is rather a dark depiction of his toughest moments on the course in a power play to skew the view on the topic of how we can raise a man or woman so high only to watch them fall so far.
Has our society become so jaded with expectations of everything we believe a person should be that we lose our minds when someone breaks the mold?
What’s behind the hoisting and throwing away of iconic heroes is a product of our societal need to view the world from our caves.
Caves of misunderstanding where we tell ourselves how people of a certain gender, race, sexual orientation, political belief or from a certain region of the United States or the World should act, think, walk, talk and live their lives.
These things have been so engrained into our psyche that we latch onto someone or anyone who can break the mold and raise them up high for simply being anomalies to the machine.
We call these men and women heroes for a cause and blindly push them into roles of societal icons for innovating movements.
Movements that are thrust into simple marketable terms but represent larger problems that plague the world as a whole.
It is the problem of how we deal with a history of race, an environment in crisis, ensuring that every American has the same advantages to living a healthy life, leveling the playing field for people of all races, sexual orientations and genders along with finding a way for Americans of every religion and political belief to co-exist in an age of intolerance.
An age where the middle ground has been pushed to the back burner for the simple statement of I’m right and you’re wrong….
One could say that this statement is more effective in solving some of society’s greatest problems but this same philosophy has also been used by some of the world’s most notorious criminals and dictators and stands against everything set forth in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Instead of having sensible conversations about the destruction of the Earth the topic has been broken down to the rise and fall of “experts “in the industry who are bent on fame and conjecture and less about the topic and finding solutions.
No matter the amount of data that can be accepted or refuted on the topic of Global Warming we have a serious problem.
A problem that bears proof with the Polar Ice Caps melting at an alarming rate, erratic global temperature rise and radical change in weather patterns with no way of conclusively proving or disproving the cause.
What may or may not be a natural occurrence in the cycle of the Earth has been met with the products of an industrial society and there is no man or woman on this Earth who can say our existence on the planet and current lifestyles are not affecting the problem.
When conversations of a serious nature are broken down to an examination of an individual’s intention or career advancement we lose the original intent behind the discussion.
A discussion that was meant to open our eyes, ears and minds to the things that are happening on the planet and the lasting affects our daily activities are having on a global crisis.
A crisis that should be about more than Al Gore as a man or a group of scientists who cooked up data to make the issue more than it is.
The conversation should have started with global warming and branched out to the accomplishments that have been made in working with corporations to limit smog, the banning of C4’s that were destroying the ozone layer and to look to the future in creating new standards in efficiency for vehicles that are being designed for our children’s future.
When we truly take a look at the things in our year ending cycle it can appear as a group of stories that paint a dark outlook on the future of mankind.
A story that breaks down the walls of everything we see happening in the world and shakes the very core of everything we envision it to be.
Behind the polarized news headlines that are meant to evoke a sense of us versus them is a conversation that is waiting for the voices of world citizens like you.
A voice of the world citizen who has the ability to believe the world is in crisis without the approval of a group scientists or a spokesperson like Al Gore...
A voice of the world citizen who can appreciate an athlete’s talent without trying to lift him into a societal icon who can somehow solve rthe world's problem with race…
It’s our ability to think and form our own opinions that separates us from pack animals.
In a technological age of extremes it’s a battle for us not fall into the trap of social thought but like most things in life this ideal falls into the category of using the inalienable right we’re given to think for ourselves or wasting it.
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