Echoes of Conflict and Climate: A Reality Shaped by Propaganda and Perception

The world is moving on the propaganda side of reports the media is sharing on social media rather than the substance. The ravaging war in Ukraine, the Israel-Iran conflict, or other headline-grabbing news reports that are being reported.

We are at the failure of using a yardstick to verify the information being shared with us someone at the beach on some remote island or some unknown person in the rainforests of the Amazon. We tend to receive all information with the same tenacity as we would seeing a birthday party in our family, friends, or neighbor circles.

We are moving at the same speed with news that is first vital for our own and everyone's good. When coming to our own democracy and freedom we are giving some of it away when we are expected to make our choices. We end up doing the wrong thing and making bad choices for ourselves.

We speak of everything from the economy to fitting a tap in our home, but when it comes to correcting our mistakes we end up stealing other people's taps and letting them suffer so that we might look better.

It is better to experience everything by ourselves rather than someone telling us it is too cold or hot and we end up without proper clothes for ourselves and dress up wrong. It is important to hear everything by ourselves or hear it from a trusted source or person whom we cannot be sitting in the US and seeing in person what goes on in some part of remote Africa.

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