I got an email last week from a gentleman in Oregon lambasting our recent reporting on the Piceance/East Douglas Herd Management Area. Interestingly, the only negative feedback we’ve received is from people who don’t actually live here, but who still have a lot of feelings and opinions about the situation based on “what they know.”
It’s indicative of a growing problem when it comes to information and opinions. We are inundated with massive amounts of…
Might seem Orwellian, but opinion becomes fact when enough people hold it.
Truth can morph into fiction and vice versa. Propagandists and marketers understand this and use it to steer crowds and populations in directions that benefit their clients. (A current example of this is the national – NATIONAL!- discussion about gender and sexuality. How did such malarkey gain traction?)
Is anything true? Is anything fact? Sir Isaac Newton developed his laws of mechanics and for centuries after societies relied on them. The whole Industrial Revolution was predicated on them and mankind progressed! Then along came Albert Einstein who said “Well, not really. It doesn’t really work like that”. So Truth and Fact are the stuff of opinion. That is, the man made versions.
I believe there are eternal truths and eternal facts. I believe that within each human being, handed down from the creation, there is a core of eternal goodness and the DNA of God himself that the course of human history has buried, concealed, and perverted.
Read, study, listen, and conclude all you want. But we fumble along in a world WE commandeered and in a society and culture that is our own mutually agreed upon construct. There isn’t too much left here that would approximate what our Almighty Creator had in mind.
Excellent “Editorial Opinion” Niki. Love it.