The
media silence :
A
conspiracy or the lazy traditional wisdom ?
It's a globally acknowledged fact
that we live in a communication society, and yet our society has swung
to communication of nothing… Never had the media let so many people
speak, but people who have nothing to tell… People that have
outstanding things to tell are never allowed to speak... So I a mere
designer, whose exploits are just a toothbrush, a hotel, rocket or a
motorcycle, I've seemed to be living within a bubble of complete
helplessness… This is why, the day "Telerama" honored me with an
invitation to take part in the making of this anniversary issue (the
60th anniversary of the magazine), I answere: "OK! But let's allow
those who are never heard of to express themselves..." Let's escape
from the prefabricated ideas, let's open up the horizon! Let's invite
the scientists to talk about their respective fields...
Philippe
Starck, designer,
as the editorial writer of Télérama Nr
3155 July 3d, 2010.
At first, I was very pleased that a mass media
had
allowed a world-famous designer to lament the fact that the press never
let
"people that have outstanding things to tell…speak" I thought, "Would
a noble unbiased journalism be arising?" Then I realized that the
editorial
prompted "the scientists to talk", but did so without adding
"the scientists among other people that have outstanding things to
tell." So it seems that Philippe Starck knowingly or unknowingly sifts
out
what he thinks is fit for publication from what is not, just as the
media do.
Once more I took up thinking over the media silence on The
Revelation of Arès ever since thirty-six years.
Even
if they
would rather keep silent than be subsurvient to powers, to the
politically
correct, religiously correct views and to popular skepticism, couldn't
the
media introduce it in question forms like: Is this book one more big
fib or a
major event of History? Is Michel Potay an impostor, a crook, or a
Biblical
prophet ? But it may be—among other reasons—because such
questions would
allow me to answer them publicly, as a right of reply, that the media
have thought it better to
ignore The Revelation of Arès.
Some say to me, "The mass media ignore The
Revelation of Arès and its witness, but off the media
there's a lot of
nonsense and slander going about. You can't reply as long as you are
doomed to
isolation, excluded from conversations, deprived of any hold over
rumor, but
the Internet… On the web you could reply, in any case reply a bit more
than
you've done so far."
Here's my answer: "On the Internet my replies to disparagers have no
more
effects on the public than the disparagers have. The Internet houses a
few mass
media, but the Internet is not a mass media in itself. The Internet is
just a
huge prattling area. The nature of a mass media . is of functioning,
that is, of
organized themes and ideas. The Internet quite differently is a muddle
or
tangle of words and talks going all over the place, it is the street
hubbub, a
station lounge chatting. If the Internet wasn't the way it is, the
powers would
have everywhere on earth put it under their controls. Opinions on all
and opinions
on the opposite of all in desultory talks cancel each other out, have
done
neither harm nor good to anything, have never made anything progress
or decline. Powers don't muzzle the Internet, because its influence
over
men's
minds is statistically insignificant."
Now, let's consider something else as regards the media's
silence.
Sometimes an event like The Revelation of
Arès takes place and disconcerts people or makes them think
or dream, one
unexpected enough to stay non-assimilated for long. It is something of
a
falling in love or a grip of anger or a feeling of helplessness. The
fact that
materialistic modernity does not match a supernatural event of that
altitude
can put in predicament even cynical journalists, moles
skilful at burrowing, but not in the least eagles,
so much so that they can't deal
with it. Hence possible journalistic behavioral problems in the face of
an
event so big that the media might figure, "What if the public takes to
the
news after we've run it down? What if the public turn it down after
we've handled
it carefully?" Utter uncertainty! The
Revelation of Arès brings about contradictory emotions. Which
of men might
has never dreamt of changing the world
(Rev of Arès 28/7) and changing his
or her life (30/11) into definitive happiness? Which of men
conversely has
never had a bone to pick with ideologies, foolish expectations and
faith? Hence,
to get the matter settled, the media's cautious silence, which may
mirror nothing
but the lazy traditional wisdom. Hence our hard job, our apostolate or
ministry
to shake the traditional wisdom and all the prejudices it uses as
excuses from its
laziness and light the Fire in
man's
heart again.
All things considered, only we Arès
Pilgrims can break the silence in the proper way.
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