Did I hear, correctly, someone on one of those primetime TV shows, saying ‘something real is different from something different?’ It was something like that.
It was a show, in a TV series, with a guy choosing among a considerable number of women – 20… maybe more – the one woman who will capture his heart.
In another version of the TV series, it’s a woman selecting someone, from among about the same number of men.
By the way, the host of this TV series was referring to people, who follow the series, as a ‘nation,’ like when fans of a professional football team, like the Raiders, are called ‘the Raider nation.’
So there was that going on, in sharp contrast to real-world, current events.
And I’m seeing on my phone terrible atrocities, as lives are being taken in a nation that is being attacked by another nation, with apartment buildings being hit by rockets and artillery shells, and streets full of ruble.
It’s hard to understand how all of this can be.
In warfare, there are atrocities, and I’m now realizing there are atrocities in communication, as well.
Communication atrocities might be happening at various times and places, like, for example, at a former U.S. president’s rallies.
Much has been said about this particular former president’s rhetoric, which sometimes hints at certain violent acts being committed against certain people… certain politicians or journalists, for example.
Reading and hearing his rhetoric and trying to figure out some way to describe it, the words ‘communication atrocities’ came to me, from somewhere…
In other words, communication that, if it goes too far, and becomes too extreme, might cause the real thing – real, actual, ugly atrocities – to occur.
Given a choice between nations… a TV show’s nation, a sports team’s nation, or this, particular, former president’s vision of a nation, I’ll go with either one of the first two.