However, I found several old document files that seemed beneficial in today’s world and pondered whether to share on Face Book or Free Republic. I have no notion of the source. This is one of three or four.
I’m posting this in News/Activism because it has a News section and since this about media News was as close as I could get.
You're welcome.
Bad analogy. The news media is not merely an impartial provocateur, they are on the side of of one of the farmers, and that farmer is the only one committing the violence.
These days all the media has to do is tell the Donkey’s owner’s other neighbor that someone did something bad enough to make them unhappy and that neighbor may riot and loot both the other farms as well as burn their own chicken coop.
The CIA has directed our MSM since the 50’s if not earlier. It’s weaponized communications and is used to divide us by race, socioeconomics, religion etc.
The DEEP STATE fears what a united people will do so it uses it’s propaganda wings to create divisions where there are none.
The analogy is at least partially wrong. The media is often just reporting donkeys being let loose by their owners and not some ghost or reporter.
Failing the ghost as the culprit it could sound like a version of turn the other cheek that you are advocating.
I agree that the media has too much sway over us and that the internet has made a provocateur of anyone who wants to blog but there are some real offenses going on that need to be stopped with prejudice. The actors have far over stepped their rights and boundaries.
Turning the other cheek 7 times seventy is still a limitation. We have reached that limit. Forgiveness and tolerance is not infinite. I’ve had enough of both for this one lifetime and would join the farmer in wiping out the willful donkey owners. All others whose donkeys have been released by mischievous ghosts may pass but only this once and the owners need to keep a better eye on their donkeys if they want to keep them.
Seems to me the ghost was responsible for all those deaths. I hope they give him the death penalty.
Moral of the story:
Watch your ass!
That’s why you never give a mouse a cookie. They’ll frame the donkey.
It’s like shaking the jar of ants.
When I first ran into this story, I figured it was about Big Tech/Anti-Social Media myself!
Bad premise. Very bad premise.
The media knows full well what it does.
They are virtually all socialiat/leftist, they espouse and report from a near universal leftist worldview. They slant stories to attack enemies and protect friends while claiming to be objective and the guardians of truth.
Bad analogy. But I do like the story in and of itself.
Reminds me of the Killing of the OX in Sir James Frasier’s THE GOLDEN BOUGH.
Chapter XLIX
” Oxen were driven round the altar, and the OX which went up to the altar and ate the offering on it was sacrificed. The axe and knife with which the beast was slain had been previously wetted with water brought by maidens called “water-carriers.” The weapons were then sharpened and handed to the butchers, one of whom felled the OX with the axe and another cut its throat with the knife.
As soon as he had felled the OX, the former threw the axe from him and fled; and the man who cut the beast’s throat apparently imitated his example. Meantime the OX was skinned and all present partook of its flesh.
Then the hide was stuffed with straw and sewed up; next the stuffed animal was set on its feet and yoked to a plough as if it were ploughing.
A trial then took place in an ancient law-court presided over by the King (as he was called) to determine who had murdered the OX.
The maidens who had brought the water accused the men who had sharpened the axe and knife; the men who had sharpened the axe and knife blamed the men who had handed these implements to the butchers; the men who had handed the implements to the butchers blamed the butchers; and the butchers laid the blame on the axe and knife, which were accordingly found guilty, condemned, and cast into the sea.”
In other words, BLAME THE TOOL!