Sunday Sass

The morning line-up beginning with Washington Journal on C-span, then MTP, followed by TW, then FTN, with Blitzer bringing up the rear, serves as my scoping out what the media is spoon feeding the masses.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if they drew by lottery which Congressional representatives and which executive branch rep would be appearing, Instead we get these repetitive pairings. And then the usual guest that just happens to have a new book on the market, and who otherwise is about as interesting as cornflakes.This week unfortunately that happened to be one of the media's favorite oracles, Tom Friedman.

The pseudo pundits cater to Friedman's superempowered ego like camels to water, there was nothing revealed about his newest publication that makes me have any desire to read it. From the multiple interviews already broadcast it seems TF thinks truth is spelled T-H-E-O-R-Y and that he has the market cornered on it as far the the ME is concerned. It is mindful of that other amalgamated production by Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon's New Map. These brews stir up huge doses of events occurring within the so-called phenomenon of globalization - toss in a lot of garbled socio-political-economic-military goals, ( many of which consist of birdbrain sized servings of whichever target they are trying to please so their next effort also gets promoted in the same manner). All has the appearance of being Rube Goldberg contrived.

I slogged my way through Barnett's delusions and probably will read TF's effort when it hits the local library shelves. I don't plan to shell out my own bucks as I did for TPNM. These pets of the present power structure will in the future become viewed as stale flash-in-the-pan opportunists when the masses are hungry for some new thinking and fresh ideas on how mankind is going to avoid self-destruction.

TF's message to the workers displaced by outsourcing which is resulting from unfair trade passed off as free trade: Not To Worry. This is just a part of the process. No matter that you may face foreclosure, your ability to pay health insurance coverage for the exorbitant cost of COBRA's--is non-existent on unemployment insurance; then what after that with 500 to 700 applicants for every available job. Totally useless opinion and no compassion for the affected, children and adult. That's America today, let's just worry about whether the rich are going to finally be required to get taxed the same way as all earners below 90,000 dollar incomes have always been and work with the administration to see that isn't going to be the case. But Friedman declares that the progress has resulted in terrific benefits, under the rubricon he adopts when stating as the title does: The World Is Flat.

Instead let's say the technology of today has resulted in time compression, economic power distortions, ideological euthanasia, and a case for the individual that can afford a computer to reach out and touch everybody everywhere in their choice of activity. My view of the future developing from this connectedness is nothing in the same realm as those visions from TF or TPMB. I trust my fellow human cohorts to harness this power for the eradication if ignorance, poverty and unnecessary illnesses.

I think that must be called faith.

Just another ho-hum on the weekly Sunday broadcasts, about as exciting as planned leftovers on the table.