asked by underground reporter, Shaun Grub
A lot of crisscrossing over between genre going on, but its taken past its ultimate levels, now four years post-pandemic we've found floodgates blasted off their hinges and another breakthrough tsunami pours forth. There's a difference between too much information and data, one's indiscrete in polite company, while the other more often overwhelms. It's not so much that we aren't made to be prepared for it, as it remains that we've been conditioned to accept it on a mass scale, as if its real, because it was on the news, or we read it online. The face of media has not only undergone an extreme transformation, but the very process itself has subsumed to a new threshold of context, when we consider just what it is our audience wants to really know.
Don't ask the questions that journalists once used to not hesitate to bring to their newspaper column, unless they are the questions our people most want to know about. Don't presume to know what the people are thinking about, now. The very least we could do is to politely ask.
The welfare of all remains a universal right regardless how people describe it. We all feel and want the same thing no matter how much anybody denies it. Bravery sides with the light of truth while cowardice hides in the darkness. If it sounds too good to be true you are likely hearing what the actual case may be. Things are never as bad as they're painted and seldom a tenth as horrid as they seem. That's because all of the blessings we counted remain even if they have been forgotten.
In order to ask the people in a way that could circumscribe the internet, we put out an interactive newspaper. This would mean that the first issue would be a query issue sent out to the public. It would be comprised of articles and surveys gathering what the community who reads the paper is wanting and feeling, and what topics, local and otherwise, they most want to be updated about. I don't know exactly how such a process would realistically begin, or if there's been an analogue to this before, which for all we know, could be a reprisal of classic stages of historic journalism, nothing new but instead just something whose time may have come around once again.
The underlying theme here must be to not allow any sort of degree of trickery to commence along the lines of who comprises our audience. Let me cut to the chase here, the real underlying deal remains that people my age (gen X) may realistically remain another three decades without batting an eye, the point being we can not afford to let anyone say "that demographic does not exist anymore" because even some of our parents are still hanging on, for the love of Christ we want to be free to live as long as we want and get old here together in our country of sweet liberty, don't we?
It's not too much to ask, of course, it goes without saying, because we take it for granted eternally, and why shouldn't we? This is the United States of America, I think the entire country's run by an incredibly elaborate network of too many people for our minds to fully process into a picture we can see in any context. Regardless, most of us are going to have our opinions. That's why we continue doing our thing, going to work respectively with a good portion of us hooked on being online, whether addicted to social utility networks since Myspace or doom-scrolling along on X or Instagram, the social dilemma's expanding repercussions are ongoing and potentially being exacerbated in unnecessary and complicated ways that it may just be far too late to stop because we're all entangled in it together so certain financial disasters or gains could be chalked off some day all too soon to being just like back in the old days when we could suddenly be having bad weather.
Welcome to the new subPrime dominion multiverse entangled with the new course we're taking. Each fresh development establishing the whole order of events for the day. Together we're shaping this world into its current form while the old skin gets sloughed off between us. "The map's not the territory," we chant while sleepwalking together in a somnambulist's parade, "because the territory's alive!" A map's just dead skin like a tossed away photograph, a dead memory fading in time. While the world never sleeps as it continues to creep in on your nightmares and dreams for a spell. We move through the landscape anticipating anything because we know it's a greater creature.
The question remains, what's it to us? What do we care and why are we here? It's a personal question each one must answer with honesty driven by the presence or lack of being conditioned by fear. A growing percentage of our own population has been polarized to be drawn into this frightful trap. Most may not even know it or actively oppose it based on uninformed bravado. However, despite it all the truth remains before the light; bright, white and unblemished. It turns out more people on both sides could be decent after all, who on Earth would've ever guessed? Perhaps that's the question that we should all be asking and whose singular answer we all benefit from should be most urgently addressed.
