How Do You Know When it’s True?

We are often to see ourselves as a bag of prejudices and prides, attributing wonderful traits to our friends and faults to our enemies.

In this politically correct schizophrenia promoted by our modern world, we are likely to turn into zombies, afraid to express ourselves.

Of course, if you knew me, you’d know I am Not Politically Correct and my mouth is no prayer book.  I talk to those I know won’t get all worried that ‘Big Brother’ is watching, and they’ll be killed for expressing an opinion.

The other day a chap I know mentioned something about ‘pretentious people’, and I saw my top pick for Pretentious Prig passing as if he were the Prince on a Royal expedition.   I knew who the chap was referring to, by my friend, with her back to my top Prig didn’t, but made particular statement.

So here were the three of us, coming from different corners, different experiences, but having the same opinion.

So my top pick is not coming from some twisted corner of my character but is the Universal Decision, for the guy is a total nobody with some elevated sense of grandeur.

I was speaking to a friend on Skype who made certain statements about a well known person.  She is blind, so can only go by voice, and I only heard the interview on the radio, so we were in the same position.  We didn’t see the speaker, we only heard the voice of the speaker, and we found particular traits which, considering the fact we rarely talk, we have opposite views on almost everything, but on this we heard the same thing, behind the words.

In many cases, thinking here of Fake News and Bias as dispensed by our News Stations, to know what is true requires one to go to various sources.

In many cases, when it comes to events and people abroad, I am not jumping in to extol or condemn.  I don’t know.

In my life I have been physically present at certain events.  I have heard, I have seen.   I know.  But I have heard others who weren’t there, who didn’t hear or saw, come with opinions.   And the only place those opinions can come from is their own prejudice.

Many News Bureaus are anti (fill in the blank) so whatever that person does or says is spun so that everything will believe how evil they are.   But persons who live there, who experienced whatever that person did or said, may have a totally different experience.   I listen more to what they have to say, for I have no problem in admitting I don’t know.

And no one who isn’t there, at ground zero, would know how the people feel about this speech or that act or this decision.