The plane boss, the plane!

First, if you’re the type who’s easily offended then this isn’t for you. I’m sure there’s a Honey Boo Boo or Duck Dynasty episode airing right now that is more suited to your level of cognitive response. Bleeding hearts? Google some cute cat pics rather than read this. Are the children gone? Good. Now we can talk.

I do not care about this missing plane, nor should you. What’s going on in the world? Well, the Ukraine situation is pretty significant.  As is every other ongoing civil crisis occurring on our planet at this moment. Government agencies are intercepting your Amazon shipments to install hardware to violate your fourth amendment rights, the Federal Reserve just allegedly acquired the gold reserves of Ukraine (after destabilizing the area, then sending a former banking cartel elite to be an influential part of the temporary Crimean government), and politicians on both sides of the aisle are working to strip your liberty and further entrench you in debt. Yet what has CNN covered for the last ten full days? A foreign plane, filled with all foreigners but for one American,  that somehow is missing. Why?

Does this plane affect you? Not I. Do you know any of the missing passengers? I don’t. We turn a blind eye to legitimate atrocities on a consistent basis; children forced into becoming soldiers all across regions of Africa, drone strikes killing hundreds of civilians per instance, and highly erratic weather while our Muppet-esque politicians deny climate change. Banks are charging you more than ever to access your own hard earned money,  antibiotic-resistant diseases are popping up on most continents, and police have been given free reign to abuse and kill as they see fit.

With all of these pertinent issues in the realm of public discussion, why are we given a meaningless distraction rather than useful information?  It’s hard not to be a “conspiracy theorist” when all signs point to a systematic dumbing down of our society.  If terrorists had hijacked that plane we would know; terrorism is our government’s favorite word/scapegoat. They blame terrorists for everything they possibly can. No explanations,  no rationalization: if something bad happened, just say it was an act of terror. (By the way, using terrorism as a fear mechanism is the dictionary definition of terrorism: it’s so ironic it’s infuriating.)

So give us something we truly need to know. Stop pandering to the lowest/dumbest common denominator and give us useful information. How can the populace make informed,  intelligent judgments about the state of affairs in the world if we’re missing chunks of the truth? It needs to stop. Journalists and journalistic integrity are not dead; they’ve just been stripped down and swept under the rug. Stop catering to those who are too ignorant to understand complex geopolitical issues and give us the facts. We’re (mostly) adults, we can handle it. But for the love of all that is good and pure, shut the hell up about this plane until all of the facts are available.