With full intention I deliberately avoid U.S. legacy media as much as possible. Or at least I don’t trust the results without additional research. Polling results in the U.S. continue to prove that deeply ingrained polarization continues to persist. Deeply ingrained human nature continues to persist globally. Where I do get better results is what the rest of the world thinks about the U.S. now. And has been thinking about for at least several decades. And it’s not pretty. More so it has every right to be skeptical about meaningful benefit being close to zero on dealing with the U.S.
I don’t recommend going full on relying on obvious foreign propaganda media, get enough of that with U.S. legacy media thank you very much. But if you bounce around and follow one of the cardinal rules of the source’s reliability you can get a sense of their level of credibility. Do they present themselves in a calm and respectful manner? Or do they act like a mid 2010’s conspiracy grifter that has nothing but anger and refuses to cite any real references? A lot of the middle of the road not too biased and not too polarized content from outside the U.S. makes its way to NPR. And unlike a Joe Rogan type influencer has a basis in reality. And that is totally not surprising as NPR gets a lot of its funding from listener donations, non profit sources and corporate donations not directly tied to driving public opinion to one pole or the other.
We know that online grifters are weather vanes. Following the way the wind blows and making sure their outrage porn matches headlines from the day before, or maybe at most a few days to a few weeks old. People, especially the vocal consumers of outrage porn, have notoriously short attention spans. This in turn leads to a complete and utter lack of long term planning. But out there, the more rational voices have some common themes about a post Donald Trump world. And this applies to whichever polarized politics are in place. As a matter of economic survival there is a big issue to deal with. Where will be the jobs that need to be filled for the next several generations?
Privatization of health care has not gone well for the U.S. Too many things could have and have gone wrong. Medical schooling is notoriously expensive. Doctors are at their core involved in a scientific field, and politicians really hate smart people. Cutting costs to bloat health care CEO salaries means overworked and burned out existing staff. Disastrous previous education policies have not just come back to haunt us by themselves. They have lead to leadership that is utterly incapable of handling the next pandemic and need to address the long term problems that have been brushed aside. Microplastics in food? Air quality? Ultra processed junk food? Obesity? Dementia? Maternal mortality? Climate change heat exhaustion? Do you really expect a gematria grifter geared on scapegoating random people is going to help educate the upcoming needs based on whining about fictitious evil cabals?
It’s pretty easy for me to predict that if a wake up call of sorts arrives and we get over the massive self imposed speed bumps we’ve set that an increased awareness of health issues will lead to increased maintenance of populations. And the more something gets attention and corresponding reimbursement will get more attention from the weather vane grifters. But fear not you non long term planners, this is quite a ways off in the future and you can buy into terraforming Mars ideas to waste your time as well as other current nonsense.
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