Hidden in Plain Sight | Everyone's Superpower to fight False News

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Welcome back to WARoftheWORDS. Time for more hard-hitting topics that somehow just don’t sit right. Each week I shall be ripping apart topics we all have to live through, but what do we think?

My blogs & podcasts will bring a different thought process to the surface of your mind. You will never see the same topic in the same light again. And I’m going to show YOU how to dissect each of any story and come to a conclusion your content with. All from my blogs & podcasts.

So my secret weapon to finding the truth is simple. Its hidden right in front of most people and it’s nothing new. We just need to open our minds.

We all know the saying “Two sides to every story” but sometimes there’s three. Their side, your side and the truth. Anyone can use this technique from TV/Radio, news articles to everyday gossip in finding out what’s not the truth.

And of course it works on False News! or Fake News to some people and used every day in covering up something. Usually, the truth is covered up in exchange for wealth, popularity or both and only by the words or rhetoric used. Why, because the truth would go against the popularity of the masses and would not gain any backing and more than likely gain resistance. And that’s not good for the lead narrative given in the first and most important place.

 “Taking advantage of our good natures” 

So this takes us to False stories that take advantage of our good natures and more important our emotions, and these stories capture our emotions that accelerate in dividing people. People who will be so passionate to the cause that they will clash with anyone who’s against the news or ‘lead narrative’ that’s been written, And not taking the time to find out the third part of the rhetoric from the lead narrative.

This is more powerful and cheaper than any military and the best bit (for the lead narrative) is nobody will blame the messenger, it’s like the saying “you threw me under the bus in that conversation.” False stories act the same way BUT Without anyone knowing who threw them under the metaphorical bus.

But Over the years I’ve found the drive of words through rhetoric and the lead narrative projected through the media especially intense, as it seems to lead to false news, which “we” the public are to trust and follow without question? Oh no no no.

“We’ve all witnessed COVID-19”

One shape we all have in common, we’ve all witnessed COVID-19 (I’ll be covering COVID in my next podcast/Blog - Click subscribe so not to miss that one!) Now if you’re as old as me then you’ve also witnessed wars, terror attacks and scandals which have also rocked our lives. If your not as old as me, a famous example I’ve lived through which stands out was, ‘weapons of mass destruction’ during the Gulf war, the use of buzz words, the rhetoric and narrative used  actually accelerated this campaign to gain public and parliamentary acceptance. Post-war this act is widely accepted as immoral and wrong, but the truth is that the lead narrative got its way, but it wasn’t the real truth, it was just spun that way on purpose.

And for that, many fathers, mothers, daughters and sons lost their health or even their lives for no reason, all due to the detriment of the particular use of words - What else is out there bypassing our daily lives? - I’d love you to pop in the comments box any of your thoughts and any typical examples you have after this article.

“Shaping words dates back to the Roman times”

By the way this is nothing new; This basic process of shaping words dates back to at least the Roman times, maybe further in reality too. But now we’re living in the “Information Age” and I’m noticing more in the media and from people in power speaking a mindset on all kinds of subjects , but mostly without the recipient of these words knowing the ‘elephant in the room’, the actual use of words, rhetoric and narrative, and in turn missing the third part of the story, the one that is hidden from the narrative which is not meant to be talked about. 

Now we find the term “False News” now defined in the dictionary from 2017 - that’s an alert if ever I saw one that this has become official business and is only going to get further intensified, meaning more human divide. Just When we are meant to be pulling together to make our home on planet earth as one for all.

“More human divide”

The worst thing about false stories, a story actually becomes reality to life regardless of the lead narrative. We demand footage of the story, so it’s given to us to believe and talk about as the more people who spread the incorrect words will later have more people turning the incorrect words into truth. Just like if you tell a lie enough times you start to take it as the truth. Lives are broken and lost sometimes for a reason hidden away and not told in the narrative given out in the first place. 

From Marketing to the Media we are all surrounded by a ‘hidden in plain sight enemy’ all being used on us to take advantage of our good natures and emotions, and in my belief our mental health too. It’s in our nature to question everything but do we have the time these days without our minds blowing their tops off, when there’s more to life such as your family and friends.

“Hidden in plain sight enemy”

Until next time enjoy your family and friends time as much as possible, don’t forget your own personal time too. Never miss more hot topics, make an educated view without falling into an abyss of time consuming rhetoric from left, right and centre. 

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