How Can You Tell?
How can you tell which side you’re on?
Reading between the lines
When you only know what you are told
Even when reading between the lines
Refugees and soldiers
Are running between the lines
While faceless men pull the strings
Politicians print designs
In the politics of what is real
They manipulate the news
War, Religion and Science
You get what it is you choose
Who writes the spaces
Between the lines
That we think we read?
Who puts ideas into the heads
of him and you and me?
I’m only reading between the lines
Sifting through the lies
Searching for a fact
That’s wearing heavy disguise
Evading all the mines
While the truth is still intact
Reading between the lines
Through the fiction of the fact
Opher 3.5.99
It is becoming increasing hard to know how much of what you think and what you believe is a product of the time you live in, a manipulation by the unseen taste-makers, or a sincerely held view of your own.
No Scientific fact will last.
Religion is a distortion of history.
Kosovo is being attacked by Nazi Nationalistic Serbs, guerrilla freedom fighters, power mad, self-interested Americans with their lackeys, or Albanian terrorists. It is all a question of perspective and political manipulation. The refugees are fleeing NATO bombing or Fascist Serbian ethnic cleansing. The Serbians are defending their territory against terrorist nationalistic Albanian separatists or attacking defenceless Muslims and Croats.
We think we know who is carrying out the genocide but we’re not there in the thick of it. We only have sanitised news.
But who has the self interest? Who stands to gain? Who pulls the strings? Who is insane?