Truth Decay

So back in the good old days, and I will be talking a little bit about the good old days today, just because it's in contrast to the current, the good current days, we'll call them that.

In the old days, there were three TV networks, and they all did the nightly news, and that was kind of the news that we saw.

And one of them, CBS, had Walter Cronkite, And Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America, the most trusted person in America, because people would turn on the nightly news with Walter Cronkite, and when he said something, it was true.

And journalism was a profession.

And people went to journalism school and studied to be journalists and got jobs doing that and worked their way up through the profession.

And there are a lot of implications about being a journalist, what it meant to be a journalist.

And in fact, journalism is the only profession that's actually protected by the Constitution.

It's called out directly in the First Amendment about free press and free speech.

So the question is, what happened? And actually what happened was technology happened, and the truth has been democratized, because now anybody can be Walter Cronkite, or pretend to be, because you get yourself a TV camera, which you have in your phone, and you get yourself a network, which you have in your phone, and you say something, and it carries the same truthiness as Walter Cronkite saying it, whether it's true or not.

So there's a line in there, and we get to talk a little bit about the line.

Because there's a difference between who we want to be and who we actually are.

And we can figure out who we actually are by watching the way the world works when we're in it.

And we kind of, when we get quiet, can understand if the way that we want to be and the way that we are have a little bit of difference in them.

And yes, it's Yom Kippur.

It's a day of forgiveness.

So if you have been doing one while meaning the other, this is an opportunity to let go of the energy of that and, oh, by the way, start doing it differently.

If you keep doing the same thing that got you into trouble before, chances are you're going to get in trouble again.