Misinformation and the people who spread it
Here’s one: according to a new poll almost all Americans are concerned about misinformation and almost no Americans think they’re part of the problem.
Half the people polled blamed the U.S. government for spreading misinformation, about three quarters blamed social media users, but only 2 in 10 said they were very concerned that they personally had helped spread misinformation.
6 in 10 were willing to blame family and friends for being part of the problem, so if the Nazis and/or Communists (personal paranoia preferences are optional) ever come looking for you, the odds are 60% that your brother or cousin is going to point out your hiding place.
And here’s a link to that story about misinformation:
OK, so pretty much everybody thinks there’s a problem and pretty much nobody thinks they’re to blame and as always the first question that comes to mind is: what about me?
I share a lot of information, is any of it mis-information?
Which sounds like a pamphlet they would have handed out to confused boys in our 7th grade sex education classes, which as I recall left us all confused because the teachers were too embarrassed to say “you put this there” and for my money we would have all been better off if they’d shown us a porno and let us figure things out for ourselves, although you wouldn’t want the porno to be Deep Throat because that would leave all the boys with unreasonable expectations for the future and all the girls with inferiority complexes or an aversion to sex entirely because they weren’t going to do that and maybe they’d just be a nun instead.
And speaking of misinformation…
At that point in history The Dick Van Dyke Show had Rob and Laura sleeping in separate beds which was really confusing because those of us who were overly interested in Mary Tyler Moore in a pair of Capri pants wondered, “So where the hell did Richie come from?”
OK, once again we’ve gotten off track and as usual I’m going to blame you and your perverted interest in whether or not Barney was banging Thelma Lou. (Personally, I think Thelma Lou had a thing on the side with Otis the Town Drunk even though I have absolutely no evidence to back me up, but as it turns out, these days you don’t need any.)
As for me and my house (which comes from the 24th chapter of Joshua in which Joshua quotes the Lord and the Lord seems like kind of windbag and brags about all the great shit he’s done for the Israelites and then demands to know who they plan on serving, so if you were an Israelite you might wonder if that was misinformation and ask Joshua: “Just when did you and the Lord have this conversation?”) we will serve no wine before its time.
Come to think of it, I may have the Bible and Orson Welles confused, but Orson seemed pretty believable when he said “We will serve no wine before its time” even though he was saying it about Paul Masson wines and I imagine when a bar ran out of Paul Masson and somebody wanted another glass, the bartender would say: “It’s time!”
Now here’s a link to a video of what appears to be very drunk Orson Welles trying to make one of those commercials:
Which brings us to the point I wanted to make about six paragraphs ago; I try to post links so you know where I got my information and then you can decide if that source is credible and here’s a link to all that stuff Joshua had to say on behalf of the Lord:
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/josh/24?lang=eng
And speaking of misinformation once again: if I were you I wouldn’t trust anybody who said the Lord gave them a message for you, because if the Lord really wants you to give your money to a guy wearing a sharkskin suit and driving a Cadillac, maybe the Lord should tell you that in person.
Here’s a cartoon where one news story (Costco limiting how much toilet paper you can buy because apparently we’re about to panic and start hoarding again) that allowed me to use it as a springboard to get into a different news story (all the stupid shit we believe just because somebody we never met and probably wouldn’t like if we did posted a link on the internet).
And speaking of dumb stuff; I find it interesting that people don’t want to take the COVID vaccine because they don’t know exactly what’s in it and will then go eat a hotdog. (OK, clearly I need to draw that cartoon and will get started on it right away).
The news about the ivory-billed woodpecker led me to make a statement about some Republicans and just this morning I read that the second-ranking House Republican – Rep. Steve Scalise – is still standing by Donald Trump’s accusations that Joe Biden won the Presidency because of voter fraud even though there’s absolutely no credible evidence of that, but Republican politicians want to appeal to Trump and Trump supporters so they’ll continue to say the election was stolen and the Emperor’s New Clothes look terrific.
OK, so that’s about it when it comes to misinformation and if you believe everything you read on the internet I should probably tell you that just last night the Lord told me you should give me half your money.
I’ve got sharkskin suits and Cadillacs to buy.
How sad! How True!!!