Trump got elected to the chimes of ‘Fake News’. Brexit was wafted in to the chorus of ‘Project Fear’.
Our faith in experts lay shattered by successive failing poles. We no longer believe a word any of the scientists or experts say. Yet by disregarding everything they say we put ourselves at risk.
Now people believe whatever they want and seek out similar views on the net. Who needs analysis or information? We just make it up. If we disagree we shout ‘Fake News!’
We are prone to being manipulators by conniving politicians for their own ends.
We Don’t Believe the Experts Anymore
We don’t believe the experts anymore
We’d rather have fake news!
Who cares if it’s correct
So long as it supports our views.
Even if it allows the manipulators
To give us all the blues.
We don’t believe in global warming
Or that Brexit will do us harm.
We don’t believe nature’s being mangled
Or electing Trump sounds an alarm.
No forest are being chopped
No elephants are being shot
And vicious hurricanes are not proof
That the planet’s getting hot.
We only believe in medieval texts
And fairies in the sky.
Things that we cannot see
And never question why.
We prefer to believe what we are told
By people on the net
For they only feed us with the truth
That we haven’t tasted yet.
As TS Eliot said, humankind cannot bear too much reality. Me, I envy animals that can hibernate … 😉
I thought we were hibernating and this was a dream!
Haha, let’s hope so, roll on Spring!
Only about 12 weeks away Dave!! I think we might make it.