Tonight, I noticed an actually rather typical interview video marketed on my Youtube feed entitled “Who Pulls the Strings?” with Tulsi Gabbard, who I actually consider to have made some very helpful contributions. I did not watch it but have found the conspiracy-minded sentiment it communicated worth noting.

So often, during the past several years, consternation over the so-called “Great Reset” has dominated the independent (though, still one-way) airwaves; and, as a person who has worked at the heart of the center of power in America (and, no, I don’t mean Washington), I feel compelled to comment on why I believe there is, at the same time, so much less need to worry than people realize and so much more. What I mean by this is that, in corporate newsrooms, there are not constant corrupt huddles taking place within which journalism is edited or warped for the purpose of deceiving the public or concentrating power in journalism corporations alone (I do believe corporate news PR departments are an entirely different story, however), but there is an almost-constant awareness of business pressures and incentives that, taken together, end up having the same effect.

If it is true that the best way to understand the stock market is as a sort of casino within which gamblers place bets on profitable, yet secret and ongoing human rights abuses, it’s only a complicit corporate news sector that keeps the whole thing going. Should the corporate news sector return to legitimate journalism, in other words, the stock market would not churn out a billionaire a day (give or take) anymore, because it couldn’t. It doesn’t, in other words, really create any value at all.

While I disagree that all the upheaval our country (and, let’s be honest, world) has undergone in recent years has really been a preplanned centralization of money and power, money and power have been concentrated all the same. Wars and pandemics are big business, after all, driving profits from all-but-required corporate television viewership, weapons sales, and pharmaceutical mandates; and, without anyone to cover them journalistically, the machine they feed only seems to get bigger and more harmful.

Lately, after noticing my computer had been running at a far slower speed than normal (there seemed to be about a one hundred-to-one ratio between the number of seconds it did and should take to process basic tasks), I finally saved some essentials, deleted a whole lot else, and restarted. And, while there has been a huge difference, there still just does still seem to be a need for a more significant system update.