Not to impeach anyone's words, ideas, or conjectures, but I am going to play my trump card today.
Nor do I wish to trump anyone else's attempt to do SEO (search engine optimization), but I find that certain words have the power to invoke the law of attraction.
This is an experiment, not so much in content creation, but in trafficking. Human as I am, I like to have my words read.
I may indict myself with that admission, but it is an indictment I can embrace and live with.
I do not wish to create an obstruction, but justice demands free exchange of ideas.
In a world of weasel words and an environment of catch phrases, even fake news has attraction, sometimes more than real news. Weighing credibility between NPR, Fox, CNN, and The Onion, the Onion sometimes wins. That is because a juicy story is what we are searching for.
So, there is content here in the midst of this experiment.
One example of content is a prediction that I make: When I post the teaser to this blog with a headline and a picture on three social media outlets, the following will happen:
People will comment on the picture and some will comment on the headline.
A choice few will follow the link and read the blog.
Why?
We are experiencing and increasing intolerance for details, credibility, and nuance in our culture. We read headlines with the assumption that they tell us something. We scan memes as if they make a case. We believe those things that go viral and support our biases.
We skim the surface of truth and the surface of life.
I am even going to include the word, "bacon," because a few years ago, it was a sizzling hot item in the SEO world.
Truth is not always sexy (and sex is not always truthful).
Where do we go? What do we do?
Jesus said that the truth will set us free - when we know it.
When we know it!
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."
Do we know it?
Do we want to know it?
Can we tolerate it?
Will we seek it, dig for it, read the fine print, conduct an internal dialogue over it, follow the links, seek to verify, and allow it to shape us?
If we, indeed, live in a post-truth age, who is to blame? Is it the producers of sizzling headlines, the purveyors of fake news, Donald Trump, the Democrats, the young, the old, Congress, the media, Late night television, or something else?
Could it be us? Could it be the consumer, reader, citizen who shops in the marketplace of ideas.
I don't know, by I just played my TRUMP CARD... And it had nothing to do with the POTUS.
