Why I Blog about Propaganda and Motorcycles

I already did a blog about why ride a motorcycle. Now a blog about why I write a blog.

Let's go back to Robert Pirsig, with "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". I love how in that book he wrote about motorcycling and quality. Not even at the same time, he could write purely about motorcycling, then jump to a completely different topic whose theme was philosophy, religion, or anything connected to quality, or more generally "values". When I started this blog, I noticed that the format of a blog was similar to the format of Pirsig's book. So I thought I would do some stuff about motorcycling, mixed with some stuff about propaganda.

I see propaganda today being a much bigger problem than quality was then. Maybe back in the seventies, quality was an issue, as the Japanese were just starting to show us what piles of junk our old motorcycles and cars were. But now all that's settled, even Harley Davidson and Triumph use the Japanese manufacturing process, and make reliable machines. But although we have beaten the quality control issues, propaganda today has made us almost incapable of running either a democracy or running a sustainable economic system.

Before we lose both our freedom and our economic system, we need to stamp out the most ignorant forms of propaganda. Those forms that incite hatred and fear, the propaganda that allows the "best and the brightest" to rig our financial systems to benefit only themselves, and be able to run it for a decade or so before its' total collapse. All without us having the slightest idea what was going on.

When I see some of the garbage (another word for propaganda) being written today, I am shocked. I know I could write better, funnier stuff that is actually true. For example, the utter crap being written by Pat Robertson about Jesus. I am not even a devout believer and I know way more than Pat Robertson does about Jesus. So why then does he make millions of dollars on Christian TV bilking little old ladies out of their life savings, and getting his idiotic message out to millions of people, while I don't make a dime writing a blog on the Internet. Actually it kind of makes sense. He owns the TV network, but I can write the truth because I don't need the lies to steal money from grannies.

Here is another example of garbage, since I was reading MacLean's at the dentist's office yesterday. Mark Steyn writes a column for MacLean's magazine which is pure junk. What does he know about Canadian history or about French Canadians? Born in Toronto, educated in England, living in New Hampshire (well at least you can see Quebec from New Hampshire.) But then he writes articles ridiculing French Canadians, and makes money doing it, while millions of English speaking Canadians love how funny and clever he is, and assume he knows what he's writing about. I can write funnier stuff than Mark Steyn, (actually this is already funnier) and at the same time I know a lot more about almost any subject you could name except maybe war which Mark and I both know nothing about. Granted, Mark is limited by his target audience at the Rush Limbaugh show to produce only crap, but still, why does he get paid to influence people while I get nothing? This has to change.

So instead of getting mad or writing a letter to MacLean's so they can delete it, I'm writing my own blog. One day my blog may knock MacLeans magazine out of circulation. There is a chance that my blog goes viral, at least as good a chance as winning a Toyota Venza by rolling up the rim on a Tim Horton's cup, which Mark Steyn wouldn't even know about since he lives in the USA. And I'll bet I can write a blog entry and post it on the Internet faster than Mark can roll up one rim at Tim Horton's.