Fact Checking

Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

What is wrong with the fact check and those fact checkers? They are first and foremost - human. As humans they are most often of an opinion as to how, what, when, where and why of their perceptions. This leads to a innate urge of mostly an unconscious cognizant dissonant lean toward seeing facts that are a confirmation of what they believe. In the end it makes the fact checks and checkers avoid or ignore aspects that would change their perceptions and therefore change the way the check facts. Fact checkers are supposed to be unbiased in their efforts but in today’s socially driven media tsunami it is almost impossible to do an unbiased fact check. Hey, I admit, that confirmation bias is on my plate too and I tend to focus a bit more intensely on those facts that trigger a certain feeling in me but that has to be controlled and it takes a good solid self-disciplined concerted act to overcome that bias and its related dissonance. 

Fact checking is critical to all media in today’s modern socially driven emotionally charged media where logic and humanity is pushed to the back seat and having a partition of black armor closed to keep it in abeyance and out of the picture letting emotionally immature illogical biased actions, words, and deeds dominate. That ain’t right!

Sometimes to remove the bias of humans we have to actively listen to things that make us uncomfortable and that challenge our beliefs, perceptions and understanding of things. We have to actively read things as well with a mind that it take two or three complete sit down focused concentration without distractions and disruptions to begin to see between the lines. Humans jump and when they do the mind throws up obstacles and obstructions to things that would normally trigger sensory stimuli allowing us to see, feel and understand better - not a good thing especially in emotionally charged subjects, etc.

I, personally, don’t trust anything and any type of fact checking process of today. Social conditions and conditioning of our society seems to have fallen from grace and into chaos where no one has direction, no one seems to run from a moral rightness that transcends emotional immature rhetoric and we seem to have lost our patience and humility that allows us to truly actively listen to all sides of a story, debate and argument. The only social tool that we have been provided to cope with things is anger and aggression. It is inappropriate most of the time but we don’t know that anymore so we get all emotionally indignant and charge off screaming, spitting and ranting with a lot of posturing, posturing by the way that says violence is possible, and getting in one’s face spitting and spewing with a righteous attitude of “Rights” that are not truly “Rights,” until like in a recent University incident lead to violence where parties both innocent and not got hurt. 

Fact checkers and their editors have all achieved expertise in compliance influence disciplines where their dissonance and bias according to personal beliefs has them creating a set of so-called facts interspersed with almost factual information and often emotionally driven inaccurate and untrue data when mixed creates the illusion of truth and fact.  

In our effort to be a kinder and gentler nation of humans we have devolved into an angry, frustrated, aggressive and righteous without concern for our fellow man that has lead to the disruptive and increasingly dangerous social entity without consistent beliefs beneficial to both the individual and the social order, a socially driven anger frustrated and disjointed group of mob-like animals. What scares me most is this came about gradually over a long period of time, i.e., after WWII and Korea up to this very day, like a dripping water eroding rock slowly and inevitably until the rock is no more so to fix this will take great discipline, a concerted diligent strong effort and a span of time at least twice as long as it took us to get here. The flaw, those in control are the obstacles to success in returning to a state of humanity, brother/sisterhood of a culturally superior tribe of Americans who have faith, hope, display due diligence, dedicated and determined to fix our way of life, not to return to the past but to use that righteous path of the past to synthesize a stronger, newer and moral fortitude that says, “We are leaders of humanity and we will survive!”