Winter Patriot Community Blog

We live in HollyWorld. It is full of different political philosophies and competing political parties. We have political commentators from every persuasion. We live in a democracy. Or so we're told. With freedom of choice. We've got so much freedom that other people hates us for it so much that they have to kill us. Or so we're told.

There's so many voices telling us all sorts of conflicting things. Who's right and who's wrong? There doesn't seem to be much in the way of consensus or common ground. Or so it seems. Like fish united by something they are unaware of because it is ever present, water, we are united by our cradle to grave culture which is built and reinforced by our media. It, too, is ever present and though we may be more aware of its presence than fish are of water, we have never experienced life without being immersed in our culture. So we remain largely ignorant of its overwhelming influence on our emotions and our thinking.

Then, like Truman Burbank (of The Truman Show), we start to notice anomalies and contradictions in people. Sitting in the audience watching the movie, we can understand the contradictions and out of character slips because we see it as a whole; as a scripted piece under the direction of one person. In our own Truman Show in everyday life we don't have the benefit of an overview from the front stalls. But we sometimes get those moments when we can see apparently competing and even warring characters all singing from the same songbook and making it plain to see the hand of the director.