"Your reality or mine? Private reality, the media and the manipulation of information
By Anthony Lawson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
There is a postmodern position that states "reality is a social construct". In other words, individuals and groups have their own realities and, according to the postmodernists, one reality is as true as another. Certainly, there is more than one way to interpret things. It is because individuals see the world differently and, at least in the American cultural milieu, have such trouble reconciling those views....
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We all live lives that are relatively local and, in terms of an understanding of outside (foreign) events, we rely on the reports of others. That means, except for our immediate experience, our realities are heavily influenced by our media environment. That environment might entail serious and objective research or it may consist of daily doses of Fox TV. In either case that, in part, is how the universe inside our heads comes about and it, in turn, motivates our behavior. The whole process can bring us down to earth or send us into the realm of fantasy....
Most individual realities are not private at all. They are instead the artificial creations of a manipulated information environment brought to us by way of the government and its allied media.
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