Dumbing Down, Blah-Blah, and Idiocracy

Years ago, the British Broadcasting Company was the unquestioned news provider for the world.   The BBC was considered a reliable source of the highest quality  The presenters spoke perfectly, went into the stories in depth, adding whatever necessary information one might need to comprehend.

Local Stations had no greater capacity then being able to send a reporter from the Capital to the countryside, so the Radio Stations turned to the BBC for their World News.

One could repeat what was heard on the BBC as fact.   Whether speaking to the Prime Minister, the University Professor,  or the Chief Justice,  one could utilise what was heard on the BBC, because it was of the highest quality.

That was then, of course.  Then, before there was an international effort to dumb down the population, to keep them distracted and stupid.

Today, the BBC gives six minutes of news every hour, two minutes every half hour. The remaining fifty two minutes of every hour are filled with pointless blah blah.   Whether vague and unquotable  reports on topics of some interest, or in depth commentary on nothing important, the hour is filled with such rubbish that shutting off the radio, or turning the channel is recommended.

Simply put, if the BBC reports on a major event you will have to go on the Internet to obtain the facts because there is no information.

This is part of the dumbing down process.   It is not an accident or that there is a lack of information, it is simply that the average person is not to be granted the basic knowledge.   The lack of information is why so many events take the world by surprise.

If the BBC, for example, actual did its job then Brexit and the election of Donald Trump would not be found so jarring.  Clearly the BBC, in it’s own country, hasn’t a clue what is happening, how the people really feel, and so were shocked that the country they live in voted to leave the European Union.

As The British Broadcasting Corporation has no idea what is happening in Britain, how can one be surprised that it would not know what is happening in America or in any other country in the world?

The result of the West’s ‘Dumbing Down’ of its population.   People don’t complain that their ‘News’ is vague and empty because they don’t realise this.     They don’t realise much of what they hear is twisted propaganda, or misreporting of events, that at the end of a report, one knows pitiably little.

One is, however, imbued with the BBC ‘slant’ on world events.

I recall in 2010 when the BBC was reporting of chaos in Jamaica, making it seem every street corner was a war zone.  I live in Jamaica and contacted them, because if one was two miles from where the events were taking place, one would not know something was happening.

Buses ran, shops were open, traffic was flowing, schools were open; yet the BBC made it seem that Jamaica was in the grip of enormous civil unrest.

The fact is, an educated population is a dangerous population.  One can not manipulate a   person who has the facts and can confront misreporting.

An uneducated and disinterested population is easily led.