Thoughts on the Media

I often wonder what my grandparents would think if they were alive today. They most certainly would be shocked at how the world is. I know one thing for certain. My grandpa Apple would never had paid almost $4 a gallon for gasoline. He would have parked his truck and just bought enough gas for his lawn mower and that’s it.

But things were different back in their generation. They knew how to be thrifty because they had to be that way much of their lives. Going “out” to eat to them was taking a sandwich from home and taking a Sunday afternoon drive to a park somewhere and enjoying their meal in nature. My grandpa told me once when I was a teenager that I couldn’t always spend money the way I wanted to like on eating out, etc., because I’d have other responsibilities and bills and such. Boy, was he right! I don’t think my grandma ever ate out during her working career either. I remember she had some Tupperware dishes that she would fill with food from home (mostly leftovers from yesterday’s supper) and take with her to work and eat. I don’t think my grandpa took his in Tupperware dishes, but he either went home to eat or took a sandwich with him when he was working.

Life was more simplistic in many ways back in my grandparents’ day and even my parents’ days. You could trust other people much more in those bygone days than you can now. You could put in an honest days’ work and expect an honest wage. Nowadays, with the corporate culture, it’s all about how much money you can make the corporation and they’ll give you some chicken feed in return. Oh, and if you don’t like it, move over, because there’s a thousand just like you they can get to take your place.

People nowadays don’t realize just how much they’ve been conditioned. We’re conditioned to be slaves in so many ways. You have your time taken up working for other people with an unfair return in wages in many cases. People are slaves to the popular media in that they tell you what music is good. This is of course to some big executive’s benefit, because if you buy his record label’s music, it’s money in his pocket. So don’t expect the media to tell you any different-because big money controls the media. This is sad because so many beautiful art forms go unrecognized, unappreciated. But the world we live in discourages beautiful art, because they know if they cram their music down your throat long enough and tell you it’s good, that you’re going to buy into it soon enough.

The best stuff is almost always the stuff you have to dig for. So, the moral of this blog is, don’t always swallow exactly what the media pushes at you. Do some investigating, find out for yourself what is good. You might be surprised.