JUST SOME POSTS

This is another post for which the idea has been floating around in my cranium for some time. The absolute insanity surrounding the evil coronavirus and political situation has prompted me to do my best to get it written. We are a world divided. We have the poor and rich, the white and people of color, democrats and republicans, men and women, religious and non-religious, old and young, new world and old world - or third world, and many, many other definitions and labels. Then those labelled groups have their divisions within. The religious groups are divided between Christianity, Islam, Hinduism (considered in the Eastern world to be much more than a religion, but for this we will go with the flow of Western thought), Buddhism (also not strictly a religion, it is considered one by most, again especially in Western culture), Judaism, Sikhism, and others. Then within those are many divisions. For example, within Islam are the main divisions of Sunni and Shia. Christianity has Protesta...

One of the biggest changes I have witnessed over the past forty years or so is the polarization of the population. Oh, I know that Democrats and Republicans, Tories and Whigs, vegetarians and carnivores, Beatles fans vs Stones fans, etc., have been at odds since the categorizations began; it is just that the divisions have become more and more broad. It is disturbing to me that any discourse and/or disagreement with the politically correct opinion is railed against and demeaned with increasingly loud voices. It is even more disturbing that the politically correct opinion appears to be a minority held position in a lot of cases. I realize that it is almost a cliche about how the "mainstream" media, aka the "old" media, is biased towards the liberal position; but I truly feel that these politically correct positions would not exist with any power if not for the artificial support from most of the media. (FYI, the cliche of the bias has been proven in many studies of n...