Sol's Culture Wars

While it remains true that #1 rated FOX News, and ratings-tanked CNN, are both thoroughly unwatchable networks because of their respective partisan slants-- CNN has to be awarded the despicable Terrorist's Favorite prize. Here's CNN's headline today: "Israel claims a Hamas command center is under the facility, an allegation denied by Hamas and hospital officials." As with ALL the hospitals in Gaza, this main Hamas command center has been verified by IDF, US, and many other intelligence sources from many years ago. It's an established fact that everyone knows, journalists, govts, every Gaza Palestinian.  CNN knows that Hamas continually lies as part of their fanatical religious doctrines. CNN also knows that Hamas holds guns to the heads of doctors and hospital officials. Spokesmen must say what Hamas wants.  Nowhere in the entire "analysis" article is this reality of brutal intimidation ever referenced. This reprehensible network is a journalistic fa...

"You do you, I'll do me." It could be the true mantra of our age, the slogan of a culture in serious moral free fall, in social disarray.  It's how many Americans self-define, and too often justify an indulgent style that values higher their own rights over others. We are encouraged to disregard courtesy, demote empathy, and leave consideration to an afterthought, or simply no concerns at all except an entitled right to free will.  We're taught that asserting individuality is primary, ignore any boundaries of others. So, here we are, 2023, crudely descended with profanity in the mainstream, OnlyFans can make you millions, but no one cares that children are bored, elders are lonely, and homeless encampments are swelling.  Is it possible that "Me first, then me.", as we are today, may be a self-destructive chant? Is there a breaking point to cultures that bend wrong for too long, beyond repair? The answer is obvious, but overlooked: always think for yourse...

These days, everything seems so crazy upsidedown. If I stand on my head, will it all make sense, or ring true? Today, defenders of sovereignty and civil order are deemed occupiers, while ruthless attackers are heralded as heroes, even as they hide behind civilians used as human shields, war fodder, intended media casualties. When did wrong and right get sold off at the same price? A soulless bargain only to those who worship violence like a faith, with public chaos and a zealous march towards one-world dominance, one belief by decree, the modern fascist god of fear. Decency, peace, and security all huddle together in the same bullied corner, while vile, heinous acts have their own channel recruiting many more eager viewers. An industry of anarchic atrocity grows so large for a voyeuristic mob that cannot create more deadly platforms fast enough. While mayhem sells, ratings climb, young folks crow and cower with chants on college campuses, more hating, more death. Upsidedown is the new ...