May 16, 2014
From Arch Crawford's Latest Crawford's Perspectives, “May you live in interesting times!” This quote is considered a curse among the ancient Chinese. There is certainly enough of the unusual occurring around our planet to keep our news sources on their toes, although it seems that much is being let slip by, and that news folk are focusing on weird drivel and emotional quackery and neglecting issues of much greater import, involving changes in our way of life. In depth analysis of political and economic conditions are relegated to back pages or ignored altogether while the best work is being presented online by those who are considered unorthodox (and that’s the kindest thing said about them!) It is more and more apparent that the orthodox sources of information have devolved into propagandists who shovel useless or twisted information into minds of the bored, un-analytic, unaware and unawake masses.