I read your posts, and find them of interest. As someone living in Canada, I do not know what to say in response, so I will reflect the following:
1. I have no trust in Canadian Elites and do not believe that they have my best interests at heart.
2. There are many others like me that I know, but they are lost with out direction, and do not know where to turn.
3. Canadians as a whole, even if they do not trust the media, generally believe what they have been told about Russia & China. We have a large number of ex-pats from Russia & Ukraine here and they either keep their mouths shut, or carry with them the prejudices that perpetrate the conflict in Ukraine.
4. On the other hand, the Eastern Europeans who came to Canada before the wall fell, are scared because the recognize what is happening in Canada.
5. Our media is useless and only repeat talking points. They hate whomever they are told to hate, and love those they are told to love. They are right out of a George Orwell Novel, except I don't think they are educated enough to even have read George Orwell.
What am I looking for? A positive vision of the future, and a way to communicate it that can get past the fear everyone is feeling. Right now they are scared, but are holding on very tightly to the past, and unable to see the future
I'm a Canadian too, although I have lived abroad since the Vietnam war and my abortive career as a stringer. People's perception of anything that cannot see with their own eyes is "mediated", through other's opinions - friends, family, teachers -- and, of course the media, which creates informational matrices. My grandfather began as a journalist. My father was a journalist. I have worked in the field and was once head hunted by CNN (I turned it down because I didn't to go to Atlanta!). I grew up with media people. Most media people are honest, hardworking people. And they most do honest reporting on local issues. In other areas, specifically foreign policy, politics and so on they may do honest commentary but it is generally edited out to conform with "editorial policies" which are determined at the corporate level by Upper Management. Journalists do not want to believe they are wage slaves. They want to believe they are "free". But the need to feed their kids and the dog. LaoTzu says (?) you cannot see the future unless you understand the past.. However, the "future" quickly becomes the "past". The Ukraine "war"is really just part of a larger war which will end in the favor of Russia, China, and BRICS--hopefully. That process will likely cause either collapse of the US union --and maybe also Canada's federation -- or major readjustments. Societies, like people, resist change -- until they have to change to survive.
I read your posts, and find them of interest. As someone living in Canada, I do not know what to say in response, so I will reflect the following:
1. I have no trust in Canadian Elites and do not believe that they have my best interests at heart.
2. There are many others like me that I know, but they are lost with out direction, and do not know where to turn.
3. Canadians as a whole, even if they do not trust the media, generally believe what they have been told about Russia & China. We have a large number of ex-pats from Russia & Ukraine here and they either keep their mouths shut, or carry with them the prejudices that perpetrate the conflict in Ukraine.
4. On the other hand, the Eastern Europeans who came to Canada before the wall fell, are scared because the recognize what is happening in Canada.
5. Our media is useless and only repeat talking points. They hate whomever they are told to hate, and love those they are told to love. They are right out of a George Orwell Novel, except I don't think they are educated enough to even have read George Orwell.
What am I looking for? A positive vision of the future, and a way to communicate it that can get past the fear everyone is feeling. Right now they are scared, but are holding on very tightly to the past, and unable to see the future
I'm a Canadian too, although I have lived abroad since the Vietnam war and my abortive career as a stringer. People's perception of anything that cannot see with their own eyes is "mediated", through other's opinions - friends, family, teachers -- and, of course the media, which creates informational matrices. My grandfather began as a journalist. My father was a journalist. I have worked in the field and was once head hunted by CNN (I turned it down because I didn't to go to Atlanta!). I grew up with media people. Most media people are honest, hardworking people. And they most do honest reporting on local issues. In other areas, specifically foreign policy, politics and so on they may do honest commentary but it is generally edited out to conform with "editorial policies" which are determined at the corporate level by Upper Management. Journalists do not want to believe they are wage slaves. They want to believe they are "free". But the need to feed their kids and the dog. LaoTzu says (?) you cannot see the future unless you understand the past.. However, the "future" quickly becomes the "past". The Ukraine "war"is really just part of a larger war which will end in the favor of Russia, China, and BRICS--hopefully. That process will likely cause either collapse of the US union --and maybe also Canada's federation -- or major readjustments. Societies, like people, resist change -- until they have to change to survive.