I will perhaps be posting here more often. Though I have fore some time posted the majority of my ideas under my I own name I still remained hesitant to use my own blog. I was raised in a different era. During my youth dispassion was considered a virtue. The content of the message was something that was to be protected from the emotion of the moment.
The receiver of information was meant to analyze the information based on the relevant facts. The naive assumption was that truth was its own source of power. But like the Russian peasants vainly trying to reach the Tzar, we have learned that truth is useless without at witness.
There are those who scoff at the suggestion that segregation carries a price. But the segregation that has occurred over my generation has carried a tremendous price. It has hamstrung the power the truth.
Conservatives commentators have been quite clear about the pivotal importance they place upon segregation. Rush Limbaugh has been forthright about his refusal to hire liberals. He has also been forthright about refusing to engage liberal callers.
This ethos has spread throughout conservative media. In reading conservative publications one finds an almost complete lack of alternative view points. In fact one of the conservatives repeatedly claimed that the presence of an alternative view would kill talk radio.
In effect the emphasis has changed from the message to the messenger. In this system of course the more one hears the less one knows. Information only comes from those who are trusted and only those who tell one what one is expected are trusted.
Tragically many have responded to this challenge by either conforming blindly to the expected stereotype or by trying to hide their personality altogether. Not me I know the truth not merely despite the fact that I am different, but also because I am different. You can hide from the truth, but it is still out there.
Feliz Navidad from Taco El Paisa
16 years ago
