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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 10, 2024 13:15:50 GMT
This is how I feel these days. I'm bombarded with talk of immigration and general stupidity. Every publication is having a bitch about something or other. I don't see anyone offering nice intelligent solutions to improve our lives. Any solution posed is a zero sum game, as per I want what you have got, or I want it this way at your expense. This country is obsessed with immigration, crime and war. I've been running a test on the BBC radio. I switch it on and the rule of the game is, if the subject is negative/miserable I turn it off, and if it is positive and helpful I leave it on. I think the stats are about 95% negative, of which a large amount revolves around fighting and wars. If it is not that it is about someone dying or about to die or in fear of death. The BBC is becoming a death cult.
I think the nation needs to wake up out of its stuper and think in an entirely different frame of reference, as per what can I do to make things better. The nation is so brainwashed that it can not bring itself to this point. I think in the past it was Christianity which helped it to be positive. Christian communities encourage each other to be positive by setting an example themselves. It might seem counter-intuitive, but those who help others don't seem to have any problems themselves.
Anyway, to look at things objectively, today out of about 3 hrs of reading and listening to various things, there was only one positive story and that was from a channel run by a guy over in Taiwan on the history of Micron, which was all about some guys who had an optimistic approach to manufacturing. They ignored all the advice when trying to get investment with people saying "hell no", and turned $100m into $150bn today.
Nobody ever speaks in favour of bad news, though I don't know why. News is exceptional - it's things that don't usually happen and are of interest because they've just happened. If the news was regularly good, that would suggest that things are normally worse. We should be glad that bad things are exceptional enough to be worth reporting. Just to illustrate my point, do you recall there was a microchip factory in Newport, Wales in 2023 that was going bust and there was concern about the loss of 100 jobs? Well it was all over the news. What was not all over the news though was the planning of a battery factory via Chinese investment that is currently being planned to create 6000 jobs. Which would you reckon is the more exceptional in today's UK economy? I only learnt of this development from China! You see China reports the positive news as well.
If you bias the news to this degree, the likelihood is you will give the population the impression that things are beyond hope, vis-a-vis good news sets a good example. Achievements are something to aspire to.
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Post by Paulus de B on Sept 13, 2024 13:02:44 GMT
Nobody ever speaks in favour of bad news, though I don't know why. News is exceptional - it's things that don't usually happen and are of interest because they've just happened. If the news was regularly good, that would suggest that things are normally worse. We should be glad that bad things are exceptional enough to be worth reporting. Just to illustrate my point, do you recall there was a microchip factory in Newport, Wales in 2023 that was going bust and there was concern about the loss of 100 jobs? Well it was all over the news. What was not all over the news though was the planning of a battery factory via Chinese investment that is currently being planned to create 6000 jobs. Which would you reckon is the more exceptional in today's UK economy? I only learnt of this development from China! You see China reports the positive news as well.
If you bias the news to this degree, the likelihood is you will give the population the impression that things are beyond hope, vis-a-vis good news sets a good example. Achievements are something to aspire to.
My next argument in favour of bad news, then, would be that we may come to need a collective response to things going wrong elsewhere, and we want to be alerted to them, whereas we trust ourselves as individuals to respond to things going right. Your example of the disproportion of the reporting of a 6000-job increase against a 100-job loss, though, does sound extreme. Could it be that you described the jobs as "being planned", and that they don't feel definite enough yet to excite anyone? |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 13, 2024 16:34:01 GMT
Just to illustrate my point, do you recall there was a microchip factory in Newport, Wales in 2023 that was going bust and there was concern about the loss of 100 jobs? Well it was all over the news. What was not all over the news though was the planning of a battery factory via Chinese investment that is currently being planned to create 6000 jobs. Which would you reckon is the more exceptional in today's UK economy? I only learnt of this development from China! You see China reports the positive news as well.
If you bias the news to this degree, the likelihood is you will give the population the impression that things are beyond hope, vis-a-vis good news sets a good example. Achievements are something to aspire to.
My next argument in favour of bad news, then, would be that we may come to need a collective response to things going wrong elsewhere, and we want to be alerted to them, whereas we trust ourselves as individuals to respond to things going right. Your example of the disproportion of the reporting of a 6000-job increase against a 100-job loss, though, does sound extreme. Could it be that you described the jobs as "being planned", and that they don't feel definite enough yet to excite anyone? I think it is around about the stage of getting planning permission. I only heard a brief mention in a report about some wider issue. They seemed to have the architect's drawings at least.
However, back to the point, it seems to me the news has an agenda. I notice it is very obvious on the BBC Radio 4. They spend night after night talking shit about Israel and yet it is nothing to do with us and our long noses are unwelcome anyway. It's about time the Brits learnt to keep out of business that does not concern them. I see the BBC as a death cult in all but name. It's kind of Satanic and very distasteful.
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Post by Paulus de B on Sept 17, 2024 12:33:27 GMT
My next argument in favour of bad news, then, would be that we may come to need a collective response to things going wrong elsewhere, and we want to be alerted to them, whereas we trust ourselves as individuals to respond to things going right. Your example of the disproportion of the reporting of a 6000-job increase against a 100-job loss, though, does sound extreme. Could it be that you described the jobs as "being planned", and that they don't feel definite enough yet to excite anyone? I think it is around about the stage of getting planning permission. I only heard a brief mention in a report about some wider issue. They seemed to have the architect's drawings at least.
However, back to the point, it seems to me the news has an agenda. I notice it is very obvious on the BBC Radio 4. They spend night after night talking shit about Israel and yet it is nothing to do with us and our long noses are unwelcome anyway. It's about time the Brits learnt to keep out of business that does not concern them. I see the BBC as a death cult in all but name. It's kind of Satanic and very distasteful.
The news feels obsessive to me. I most often see half-hour bulletins on BBC World or the evening news on BBC1 or 2. Each bulletin seems feature one very long report, and a very few bits and pieces of miscellany. That two wars on the edges of Europe are featured a lot seems natural - they're scary. But the obsession with the US presidential election is absurd. Death and Satan have escaped my notice, unless over-elaborately formatted quiz shows count. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Sept 17, 2024 18:30:43 GMT
I think it is around about the stage of getting planning permission. I only heard a brief mention in a report about some wider issue. They seemed to have the architect's drawings at least.
However, back to the point, it seems to me the news has an agenda. I notice it is very obvious on the BBC Radio 4. They spend night after night talking shit about Israel and yet it is nothing to do with us and our long noses are unwelcome anyway. It's about time the Brits learnt to keep out of business that does not concern them. I see the BBC as a death cult in all but name. It's kind of Satanic and very distasteful.
The news feels obsessive to me. I most often see half-hour bulletins on BBC World or the evening news on BBC1 or 2. Each bulletin seems feature one very long report, and a very few bits and pieces of miscellany. That two wars on the edges of Europe are featured a lot seems natural - they're scary. But the obsession with the US presidential election is absurd. Death and Satan have escaped my notice, unless over-elaborately formatted quiz shows count. Well I tend to listen to China news as well, and over there the news is all about what China is doing and what is going on in China, except if say there is an important international meeting where they will cover that. I find it refreshing because you see reports on all sorts of things from individuals to companies and government projects. It all looks so busy and positive, the diametric opposite of say the BBC world service, which is what Radio 4 is after midnight. Of course the different news in different countries reflects the culture to a large extent, but we as a nation seem to spend more time poking our fingers at others, and pay no attention at all to perhaps what we can do in a purely constructive way. I compare state news in both countries and get the idea that in China the reporting on the national achievements is inspiration and must make more people think, hey I've got an idea and then go and put it into action. I think the constant reporting of brutality is making the nation more brutal. It feeds itself, hence why it is evil. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Oct 7, 2024 8:26:45 GMT
Anyway I'm a firm adherent to the China school of thought. If you want to rule the waves you must focus on being the best. How’s their submarine doing again ?? Normally it’s hard work putting a hostile country’s naval fleet on the sea bed. I was therefore most interested to see the Chinese seem so keen to put it there for me, without me having to lift a finger, and in their home port too. |
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