Opus 2025-048: Live First Person

I watched President Trump’s entire inauguration speech.  I didn’t spend much time on the theatrics in the ceremony.  I watched a little bit of one of his appearances immediately after the speech, but it was clear that he was getting into keeping his base, happy, and communicating with the people who have supported him.  I don’t need that kind of encouragement.  The speech was enough for me.

I listened to the whole thing for the simple reason that I don’t trust any of the media, right or left, to tell me what he actually said, in the way in which he said it.  I think the spin should be kept in my clothes dryer, not in my politics or, for that matter, in my spiritual life, or my family.  I need to live life in the first person. I need to do the listening as much as possible.

I find that reading the Clickbait headlines is interesting to get a general trend of what is happening, but it does nothing to give me accurate facts.  Usually the articles are even worse.  I want information uninterpreted.  I don’t want to live through someone else’s dreams and aspirations.  That can be time-consuming when you’re talking about Donald Trump or any other politicians.  They love to hear themselves talk.  They love to repeat things.  Part of that is because people don’t listen.

I will admit that Donald Trump tends to go on and on.  That’s one reason why I don’t listen to many of the speeches.  I’ve already heard them.  At the same time, I need to pay enough attention to know what he’s really saying.  His inauguration speech was unfiltered from the heart into every American.  We need to take it seriously and ignore the way the media spins what he said.

Have a good time filtering the Clickbait.  Fake News did not go away just because it lost an election.  Somewhere in all that you’ll find the information you need.

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