Screaming Deafness

Okay - so the folks were over this past weekend.. We all gathered around and watched Fahrenheit 9/11.. I half-way anticipated that there would be some sort of conflict afterwards.. What I didn't expect is the phenomenon better known as "screaming deafness" or "glaring blindness.."

So once the movie had concluded my dad piped up and said "now you know we've had these discussions before about history and how it's really impossible to know what was going on unless you were there personally...." Fine.. I can accept that to a point.. But we have an instance where we actually show Bush, his cabinet, and all of the politicians who construct the world we live in --- on TV shows, doing interviews, making jokes, statements or quips while thousands of people have been sent overseas knowing that they may end up dying as a result of the service for their country..

So to say that "we don't know what really happened" was completely mindboggling to me.. It's as though we can watch the same event, record it, preserve it, and still be considered a "perspective of the truth.." Huh?? So if I get it right: no matter if what I think is the truth, even if I hear it from their mouth I can assume it's not true.......

hmm..

Because it's something you can discern from what was actually said.. It's something that anyone can go and verify if they choose to.. It's something that could be debated as long as there was a clear, logical explanation exchange..

No..

It's not quite that simple..

Instead, the folks were entrenched in their beliefs.. The hour and forty five minutes that were spent watching the movie would've better been served watching paint flake off the wall.. It wasn't as though I was expecting them to change their opinion of Bush or reach some sort of epiphany of what happened before, during and after 9/11.. I guess I was hoping at the very least to stir a moment of pause..

Um.. That didn't happen..

What happened though clearly illustrated the idea that the blinders are put on some people and regardless of how much you smack them with a 2x4 - they simply will not get it.. It illustrated that the more hostility the left liberal machine generates it clearly polarized families and people across the nation..

It illustrated that even though things brought out in the movie which have been documented, confirmed and otherwise verified - the nation is more concerned with the fact that "Gore wouldn't have done any better" or "Kerry would only lead us the wrong direction.." Arguments like this only fuel the ineptitude of some folks who want to fly blindly on faith without substance or fact..

Indeed my folks are flying blindly and remain steadfast in support of Bush despite the facts, statements, interviews, and supporting documentation used to verify the numerous premises the movie points out.. To them, the movie is clearly a work of fiction, a false-hood, a dream, a spinner, a politically motivated piece of propaganda without truth, without substance and contrived to be nothing more than a lie..

Christopher recently left the comment:

Re Moore: We have to stop talking at them, and start talking with them. There is no dialog. We are all talking so loud and in such an intense way that the people we want to convince just shut down.

Overload.

Step back. Take a deep breath. Ask them what direction they want our country to go in.



The problem arises when one attempt to establish dialog in the face of blindness or have the factual basis of truth fall upon deaf ears.. Even if Moore's movie further polarized the population the documentary was founded on the basis of verifiable fact.. If we're grown as a society that only wants rose-colored news reports..

It's not a simple issue of dialog..

It's a matter of grasping for a reality-check.. When the masses of people are controlled by a select conglomerate of media outlets - who can manhandle, subvert and otherwise emasculate the basis of fact and truth to paint whatever picture those few in control dictate ....

.... what does that say for us as a society???

What happened to questioning authority??

What happened to verifying the facts or presenting more than just one biased side of a story??

What happened to social responsibility when we avoid the truth only to replace it with some mangled version of an event??

My folks are an excellent barometer of what's happening out there.. They claim not to be affiliated with any single party.. They don't like Bush, but they hated Kerry more.. They didn't vote and if my dad had his way, there would be an option in the voting booth for "none of the above.." They are sponges for mainstream media and television and depict what these resources have done.. They read the newspaper, do not have access to the internet and watch TV news programs up the wazoo.. They are the product of people subjected to the rose-colored tint in their daily paper, on their television set, on their radio.. They are products of media subversion.. They are products of the slant and bias which has otherwise skewed their perception of truth and reality..

What will history say of the legacy of George Dubya Bush and his Presidency?? How will history remember him?? Am I the victim of deceit with the slander and propaganda of Michael Moore?? Or am I a vigilant crusader who is correct in the facts spelled out in the documentary, the corresponding investigations, and ultimate resolution to this incredibly life-altering change in American History??

Will I find out in my life time??

Does the fight matter or am I supposed to put on the rose-colored glass and fall in line with the masses??