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.
Heh, I was about halfway into it before I began to suspect it wasn’t joke!
Point taken about not lopping each other’s heads off on the basis of media articles meant to incite us into lopping each other’s heads off...:)
It’s not a bad analogy.
It illustrates how wedge issues work.
So many relationships are being obliterated as we type over disagreements about workplace COVID risk, masks, effectiveness of the jab, safety of the jab, jabbing one’s own children, mandating the jab, etc. These relationships often as not are between siblings, between adult children and their parents, between husband and wife, between fellow Republicans, between fellow conservatives.
The drive-by media has a whole new menu of wedge issues to choose from. Is this not a significant and dread-inducing new development that disembowels or renders worthless our right to freedom of assembly? For Pete’ sake—so many people no longer feel comfortable coming close to anyone. Someone they’ve just met and would ordinarily at least shake hands with? They treat them like a vampire treats holy water!
Everyone who previously generally agreed with each other is seemingly now at everyone’s throats. Or they predictably would be if they ever managed to physically gather together again in one stinkin’ place.
The spiritual damage to society is incalculable. The worst part is, it never needed to happen. Sick people, people with fevers, needed to stay home (with their HCQ, Ivermectin, antibiotics, zinc, vitamins D and C, tamiflu (in case it was the flu after all), whatever, to help them stay out of the hospital killing fields), and remain isolated. The rest of us needed to carry on as usual but were forced to do otherwise. The preposterous notion of quarantining the healthy was another huge wedge issue!