A Make-Believe Interview: They Want anything but the Truth

I don't know whether this is from the top down or from the bottom up. This whole scheme is like a miniature - well, interview.

First and foremost there is the student (the ill-informed mass) they are, stereotypically, in trouble, confused,and can hardly think for their own.

Then there is the student body leaders or the students affairs teachers acting as the government. They are the brain behind the scene. They dictate what the public needs to know, determine the tone and remote control the whole process.

In between is the platform which glues the two parts together. Media, they are called, or propaganda. (isn't all media propaganda?) then on the platform, we need some student representatives - the excellent part of the population is of no use here- they need the dumb ones so that they can truly represent the majority of the public.

Then there is the expert. The fact that the brain behind the scene dictates the subject and predetermines the tone before they go and find the right expert may have tipped you off already. They either find the expert who hold the view which happened to, or otherwise, coincide with their purpose, or find someone bearing a big name and who is at the same time so spineless as to sit through the whole process spilling out something exactly opposite of what to he believes. As a result, real experts who knows the truth are neglected, buried, silenced or in the worst case, bent. Those who appear on TV are only a mouthpiece of the behind-scenes boss. They are replaceable by anyone who can, you know, talk.

Of course a host or hostess is indispensable here. The whole group of people, made up by the representatives and an expert, are the puppets who is performing the boss's show. How do they know fully what the boss needs them to communicate to the public without a well played-out agenda? So the host person is there to guide the talk and keep it on the boss's predetermined track.

During the rehearsal, the "brain" was actively at work. They mince your original words, trimmed whatever might conflict with their purpose, and even went so far as to teach you what to tell.

When the actual show is on, they subsided and relished the outcome.

They knew, even though they evaded as well as they can, that this was not going to work - it never does, otherwise the CET problem would be solved a long long time ago.They nevertheless appeased themselves that they could at least enhance the confidence or work up the public morale.

They wanted anything but the truth. They believed as long as they did not utter the words of irreconcilable conflicts, such things just did not exist. Thus they went about their life and work with will power and relished the process of making arrangement of things of this kind- where anything is in play but the truth.

Now i understood why i led a much simpler life- i only accepted what is true. Yes, truth hurts but it hurts so good. It is a kind of sobering joy some people will never find out. In making a choice, i only asked one person- myself; and only one question- do i like to do it?

April 18, 2009