Sunday, April 12, 2009

A free Media


For sometime now I have a weird obsession about the media and the news in general, a feeling that most of what we see and hear is not true but just some forced opinions made to drive our minds and culture into defined directions and ways of thinking.
May be it is not fair to generalise the phenomena, may be it is just an obsession that will fade in the future, may be it is just a phase but I really can tell clearly why we are driven in many aspects of our lives after false dreams and untrue goals.
In order to always remain running without catching your breath and even dyeing after insignificant things in life, untrue and irrelative causes and goals, to stay always submitted to this delusional cultural invasion, in each serial or movie or talk show.
By time, you get to use the idea that it is not the concepts they are seeking to destroy but a complete brainwash is planned, from simple steps and ideas into major change in believes and ethics.
What really confuses me in all this mess in the media is the unity between international and local media in some major points, as if we are all a part of an international conspiracy aimed to group people minds and tastes and believes into one big chosen channel.
I believe that local and international media affects us on different levels and I believe they reach different and various public targets and I believe they are much different in detail but much similar from a large-scale point of view.
Similar in two main aspects, first the obligatory dreamy way of living we see in each movie and serial and with each service or commodity advertisement.
Second, the number of unnecessary luxurious commodities and services that sparkles in front of our eyes in Malls and hypermarkets and super stores, forcing us to compare our hard life with the easiness this luxurious life brings regardless our real priorities in life.
The real difficulty for me these days is to notice or realize the free voices in all the crap you are used to, the free ideas and the free thoughts, the attempts to open your eyes on the true reality beyond what is happening and the direction we are all heading to without even noticing.
I realized I am less thrilled and excited from movies, cannot stop my mind from thinking more than enjoying movies, the real reason and truth about big productions and huge investments paid in big movies.
The real political and commercial aim after the love scene in a good story or the emotions you get from a touchy thriller or the sympathy you gain from a far away cause, it will take you sometime to see a good free production movie between thousands of good rotten movies forced on you each day.
I may be overestimating what is really happening but I cannot help it no more we have a lake of free real opinions, ideas and thoughts in a mess of forced and false media and news everywhere.
It is even hard for a regular person to get the simple reality of what is going around him locally or internationally without getting fraud, the sources of real and free news and media are rare these days.

1 Replies:

Noblese said...

Hi, you are not alone. I also have an obsession for news especially when it comes to Egypt. I would read more news related sites than any other. Maybe we can exchange sites?!