I search for news that I can comment on while raising the issues to the level of Principle—reaching the truth by climbing out of the mud…
Most media and almost all politics are miring swamps.
From the Bahá’í World News Service: Iranian media attacks on Baha’is and Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi seek to stir “irrational fears and prejudices”
From The Huffington Post: The Media’s Problem Of “False Balance” Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses
From the Lancaster Eagle Gazette: Candidates taking low road: Dirty politics is never helpful
From the Tampa Tribune: Truth, Please
Often, I find refuge from the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” in fiction. I am a poet and many would claim that poetry is fiction, along with myth and tradition . . . Contemplate these quotes:
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Stephen King
My favorite author, C. J. Cherryh, spins beautiful tales, taking media, politics, poetry, fiction, and myth to realms that reveal truth more clearly than most any media or political source available.
Consider these quotes from this multiple award-winning author:
“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.”
“Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency – and don’t complain about the heat.”
“Trade isn’t about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.”
“We’re in the hands of lunatics.”
“Of financiers. Far worse”
“The interests of all humans are interlocked…and politics is no more than a temporal expression of social mathematics.”
“Ignorance killed the cat, sir. Curiosity was framed.”
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Today’s Spiritual Quote:
“Oh! why will man, the disobedient child of God, who should be an example of the power of the spiritual law, turn his face away from the Divine Teaching and put all his effort into destruction and war?
“My hope is that in this enlightened century the Divine Light of love will shed its radiance over the whole world, seeking out the responsive heart’s intelligence of every human being; that the light of the Sun of Truth will lead politicians to shake off all the claims of prejudice and superstition…”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 150
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