You Should Avoid News and Instead, Seek the Truth of History!!!
Hello again, dear Steemians!
Today, I have a question for you: Apart from one being in the past and the other what is currently happening, what is the true difference between news and history?
In our current society, you could always have access to news. There are literally tens of platforms that can deliver the news to you in an instant and with no difficulty.
You turn on the radio, you hear the news. You turn on the television, you hear the news. You take hold of your phone, and you see news everywhere.
On most websites and especially social media, there are news agencies working 24/7 to make sure that you remain informed!
But delivering unbiased information is not what these news agencies are doing.
The whole philosophy behind a news outlet is gathering more and more audience, thus making money through advertising and other methods of public appeasement!
More so, such news can never be the full picture. Many news agencies hold their allegiance to a particular party, and dedicate their strong words in support of that party and their harsh criticism for those who oppose said party.
Nobody gets the full picture in a news coverage. And it must be no surprise to you, because you have already seen many paradoxes in a single piece of article from many websites throughout the years of being engaged with such outlets.
The last blow that I will deliver to the idea of remaining informed via news outlets is the fact that most of what they cover are bad and terrible news from across the world, which would in no way have good effects on your mentality.
On the other hand, we have history. History is said to be the greatest teacher of all time. History shows us who we used to be. History shows us our follies and our mistakes, our shortcomings and our lack of temperament.
‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’
This is one of the greatest quotes of all time, put forth so eloquently to suggest our lack of wisdom to hold together our collective knowledge of what should be important.
You have already seen the repetition of human atrocities in all the follies that have crippled us in the long history of civilization
You need only hold a small glimpse of history to understand that we are making the same mistakes over and over again.
Here is a good suggestion: Instead of drowning in the senseless world of news and what is currently happening, which is never the true picture of real events, we should take a look at history and learn lessons from it.
The history is rich with ideas, schools of thought, and beliefs that could help us through our life. And when, in the real life, things start to take an imitating turn, you will be one of the few to understand and oppose it.
True wisdom resides in history, while all news can offer you is terrible and biased sense of judgement. History will give you sensible solutions for all the problems of your personal life, or that of the other people living on this planet.
Embrace history and live a life of revelation and understanding, as opposed to what the media of masses wants you to know and understand.
A BIG HUG!
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Important Note!
I have been working very hard on this blog since the beginning. I have a very busy life but I am giving my best and believe me I have shared experiences that I have been coaching thousands of people and I know that the change of the Mindset should be daily. I am already grateful to see you giving upvotes to each other and you can see this with the fact that many already have 8, 9, 10 upvotes. But I'm sure that with the effort of all of us we will see a community with, more and more upvotes each others and for that everyone should get engaged so we can make it come true. I believe and we can! Resteem...
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I'm reading all the meaningful comments from the posts.
I am here making a list of all of you who have helped build this community by voting for each other who write meaningful comments and soon I will respond to everyone with comment and thank you all because I can already see this spirit being built in this Positive Mindset community and help between all of you.
You will receive my upvote in all material and brief comments I will do this in all the posts I am following very closely and I can see what the people who are generous and contribute to this legacy that I am trying to build with all of you can become reality in a short time.
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you, who are the most active and proactive in this community, showing your generosity and always with meaningful comments. From now on I will always make a list of these incredible people who have helped to expand our goal of growing ever more.
But I ask that if you are new around here you read many of the previous posts because they make it clear that we are building a community with respect among all, generosity and this blog is for those who really want to start moving their Mindset to positive and moreover be part of the growth of all of us who contribute to this blog. Please do not ask to include you in the list if you are just wanting upvotes because we want here people genuinely attuned to growth and good attitudes and as I have always said with Respect as the basis of all, generosity and positivity!
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I disagree with about half of your post.
I agree that the news is biased. The mainstream is close to completely biased. Many of the alternative media are biased as well. The great thing about the internet is that we have so many sources of information. I have found a few websites and journalists that make a genuine effort to report the truth. There is RT America, Wearechange, and John Pilger.
Turn back the clock before the internet, the media was still biased but it was less obvious. People did not known they were being deceived. Go back further to what is refereed to as history. We have have accounts that are close to completely dictated by those ruling at the time. History also differs depending on where you come from. There will be some broader truths to history but with plenty of fiction mixed in to support certain agendas. There are people that have done some great digging to uncover some of the hidden truths. To access this information involves turning to more recent documentaries as well as the present day media.
I agree with your comment. There are many examples of bias and misinformation in history, with organised religion being a prime example of this.
In today’s overly connected landscape there are plenty of sources of unbiased information that discuss current events, there’s even a few accounts on Steemit that strive to provide such information.
This post, that is overloaded with paid votes which has drawn an absurd amount of funds from the limited reward pool, is a disappointment to say the least.
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It gives us some hope that we have people in the alternative media that are willing to challenge the mostly biased mainstream stories. Steem is perfect for the alternative media considering we are censorship resistance.
History can not be so easily challenged because of the monopoly of information at the time.
The arguments in this post are quite weak and should be fleshed out further. As it stands, I feel the arguments are simply a reaction to mainstream media.
I am also disappointed that most others commenting are simply agreeing with very little demonstration of critical thought.
This “author” writes to a schedule. He simply pumps out content rather than writing for the sheer enjoyment of it.
And most of his followers are spouting positive responses in the hopes of an upvote. The author encourages people to upvote one another which also encourages only positive comments rather than real debate.
It’s refreshing to see your honest comments here. Keep it up. :)
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I endorse your assessment spectrumecons. History like news depends on who the narrator is and the biases of the source/s. We should not depend on any one source but assess as much information as we can possibly gather if it’s an issue that we care about. From the body of material we may be able to find a clearer picture of the truth.
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I always recommend doing as much research as possible. There is so much conflicting information. Eventually we are able to distinguish between the more reliable sources and the ones guided by hidden agendas.
This I can agree with. News is also a historical source.
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Good counter points. History is always written from the winner's perspective.
Thanks. I hope I can stimulate some debate. I have yet to receive a response from the author.
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@garudi is a whack job cunt who has spent a few too many days off her meds. @garudi it's time to take a trip back to the hospital where you belong, they'll take good care of you there and make sure you don't harm yourself. Crazy cunt needs some meds!!!
I don't believe that all parts of history contain wisdom, because we had WW1 and we didn't learn from that therefore we had WW2. In some of this post u are just stating the obvious. From this speech i believ you have a good heart, just re-read what you state.
History is very hard to study as we can't get the point of view of everyone in a given situation; that's why people say "history is written by the winners", you can't really know from which side this history is told and how it could have affected its objectivity. That's what makes History study a job itself.
But you're right on the point that everything that happend today often happened in the past and we can learn from History about it ! It just needs to be done with a lot of relativity and objectivity.
(But this is just my opinion :-P )
This is a very well written article. Nowadays you can't really fully rely on what was being said on the newspaper, tv, radio ETC. as many of the news today are biased or will just say one side of the story. It's really unfair for us because we are judging things or people without accurate knowledge of what happen in a given situation. So it's always a must to think before you click, never judge a person just because you hear something about them, you judge them by getting to know what that person really is and what really happen to a given situation. THANKS!
Los medios de comunicación, se han convertido en un gran negocio; ademas, se están utilizando como armas de guerra psicológica. estoy de acuerdo contigo, en que hay que agotar las fuentes y los recursos comunicacionales antes de tener una opinión definitiva, de lo contrario estarás disociado de la realidad. Dios te bendiga.
Watched suppressed documentaries.
"Europa: The last battle"
"Communism through the backdoor"
"Adolf Hitler: The greatest story never told"
Find the lies and show me the real evil.
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I think the lies go back so much further than we can imagine. I do not watch any news today and pretty much stopped believing anything in history books. Who paid for that story to be told? At this point, I focus on my immediate surroundings and try to keep that going well. Most of the time, I can avoid the evil-doers.
I did watch a bit if the last film you mention several years ago. That was a stunner. It was in a lot of parts which kept getting deleted as I watched over a few weeks. I saw enough to realize we were played again.
Oh yes @chbartist, I completely agree with you, that only history will find us properly understanding life and will give us the recipe for our success. The news is now varied and often mislead us, the story on the contrary teaches us, gives us the invaluable experience of mistakes and victories that we are simply obliged to adopt and reach our dreams!
Excellent review @chbartist and you are right, the news is very different compared to the story and it is vital for us to understand this. Now there is a lot of false news in the world and that’s why history should be made our support in order to achieve your goal. Someone said, and I correctly, that a person who does not remember his history will not have a future!
Well said @chbartist and I completely agree with your thought about history. News is just recent incident which can even be manipulated by agencies but history is truth and was written very long back.
Thanks for the nice post @chbartist
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Any news agency should be attached to any particular party is absolutely wrong to keep them fair and whether the ruling party seeking opposition party be both that should not spread confusion in the news should not reach those people see the same vision that right News Agency Responsibility
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Bueno eso puede verse en corporaciones como CNN, BBC, FOX, entre otras, que están al servicio del gobierno norteamericano y son punta de lanza en las guerras de tercera generación. Eso es un ejemplo.
Currently that happens in Venezuela, the media are biased by the government, since the government has taken them all and the information handled in the country is not true. Likewise, they want to reflect to the international media, everything in favor of the government, there are few media that do tell the reality that happens in the country.