We ought to be able to lobby or petition our Cable
Television Operators to get better people on television.
As I sit there and watch I say, “I wouldn’t pay to listen to
them talk so why am I?”
And what does this lead to?
Take those who comment on politics and Government. They talk about the
left and the right. They argue in
negativity, “We can’t do this. We can’t
do that.” Etc.
And after awhile of that they have created a self fulfilling
prophecy for the whole entire country!
“The we can’t, we can’t,” translates into something like, “We
can’t deliver mail on Saturday anymore.”
Maybe if discretionary income was never funneled into the
pockets of those who promote “We can’t,” then…”We could.”
Which gets you back to the question, “Why should anyone have
ever paid to listen to you?”
We ought to be able to lobby to broad brush change the whole
cast of who is on television. It can
never be who you know it must be a what you know that gets on television.
What is there answer to that?
“We can’t.”
Which leads to the next question, diminished and lost skills
in the United States. “We can’t answer that.”
As you go through life one thing you might learn to get out
of it is the question you ask yourself, “So and so responded to my question but
did they really answer it?” It means a
lot more to answer a question then to respond to it. Responding is more like a cat swatting a fly
that lands on its nose while it is sleeping?
Answering means that you have full recognition of what was
asked and the validity of the concern.
Answering means that you respect the question and the validity of the
concern represented by it.
And indeed the best question to ask someone is one where you
give them the full opportunity to take the path of the sound premise that was
implied in the question.
The who you know standard leads to an entrenchment less than
mediocrity. And what is who you
know? It is ensuring the safety of your
own incompetence. It is really an
admission that you didn’t belong there in the first place and only seek to save
those who will support you and not the profession.
And the what you know standard representative of meritocracy
can never come from a who you know standard of Education and subjective who you
know grading. In other words the more
you pay for a college education seems to bear no real relevance to what you
know from empirical evidence. It has not
been good for the United States.
Instead, he who you know standard of equates to, who will
you get rid of that challenges the who you know standard. And this indeed lessens the what you know
standard. He was smarter than us and
challenged us so we got rid of him through attrition. The whole of the United States has been
ground down by that same attrition.
Who do you know that can fix the problem? :)
Copyright 2013 Thomas Paul Murphy
Originally published on 02 10 2013 at: www.themilwaukeeandwisconsinnews.blogspot.com
It implies democratically voting people off of television doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteThat is something that has not really been considered before. Been when you consider the fact that television has become the greater part of our political and governmental process we indeed need to be able to vote people off of television entirely. Or vote them on.