As I approach 60 I now understand what I did not 20 years\nago. I used to wonder at conversations where people talked about living in\nisolated places, no tv and staying away from people they felt uncomfortable\nwith. Digital technology was a no no to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like I said, I now have an understanding of their position.\nI do a search on the internet to find information, all of a sudden my social\nmedia is flooded with associated adverts and suggestions. Unsolicited email and\nphone calls are now a daily occurrence. On checking the numbers calling they\nare either totally made up or are imitating local numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I used to wonder how stupid people were by being caught up\nin spoof communications and losing so much money. At this time of year I am\nusually up to my eyes in deadlines to meet while dealing with very inclement\nweather. Today I was nearly caught out by telephone calls allegedly from\npaypal. Luckily I twigged they were at it and told them where they could go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another reason I am ratty is all the lies, mistruths and\ndown right blatant photoshopping etc that is going on during these Westminster\nelections. Social media is so full of lies that no wonder people have some\nweird perceptions of who will look after them best in government. There is\nabsolutely nowhere safe to go to find out the truth. Our traditional media (for\nthose of us in the 55+ bracket). Fair to say it has never totally told the\ntruth but when the main reporters are being outed as lying, how can we believe\nanything they broadcast? So called fact checks are biased in the leaning of the\nteam doing the fact checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social media and blogging allow the people behind the pages\nto be anonymous. Anyone who has one of these pages has an axe to grind. They\nhave strong views and wish to share them with people who may be like minded. It\nbecomes all too easy for some of these people to become embroiled in\ndifferences with each other and to try to influence the others following\nsubscribers. Inevitably this results in much nastiness and perhaps even going\nto court. What are these pages serving, apart from their own egos? Many people\nfollowing some of these pages should step back, ask a few questions the main\none being is this person helping me decide how I should be voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be slightly fair, the politicians have asked for this. If\nthey had been honest enough to simply stick to what their manifestos were,\npromote the future they wanted, the various medias would have had nowhere to\ngo. The clambering of the main parties to see how far right they could go to\noutdo each other caused all this havoc. Let Farage in and all the chaos his\nfollowers caused. Name calling and shouted abuse started to become the norm.\nMain media went along with it and almost gleefully reported it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel society as portrayed through the media has become a\nvery nasty place. Luckily I still get out and about and meet some nice people.\nHaving said that, two new members to the craft group I go to shouted out during\na political discussion \u201cwe are tories and hate the SNP\u201d. Was there any need to\nsay they hated the SNP? Once upon a time declaring you were tory was enough.\nWhy do people feel the need to add on words like hate, despise or any other\nnasty or negative saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great Britain has become a place where people can do and say\nwhat they like, behave in whatever manner allows them to accrue money,\nposition, influence. Decency and democracy are dying. Watching the nonsense\nbeing played out in Westminster in the last year has been a disgrace. Perhaps\nthe old boys were right, the chamber should never have been televised. The\nbehaviour from this chamber has led the ordinary person to believe they can\nbehave like that with no comeback. The last few weeks in that place before it\nclosed for the election showed there was nothing 20th<\/sup> century about\nit. Women treated despicably, as were MPs from countries out with England.\nThese MPs were all equally elected to that parliament but some obviously think\nthey are more equal than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I shall knock doors to see our vote gets out. I shall\nprobably watch the results coming in (for some time anyway) but thanks to the\nbias, the lies, skulldugery that has gone on during this election I fear for\nwhat the outcome may be. For the first time in my life I am truly thinking of\nemigrating. I hope it doesn\u2019t come to that but that is how disgusted I am at\nthe way people are treating each other. If you have a vision for your people\nyou should be promoting it with pride and joy. Not telling downright lies and\nhiding the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I approach 60 I now understand what I did not 20 years ago. I used to wonder at conversations where people talked about living in isolated places, no tv and staying away from people they felt uncomfortable with. Digital technology was a no no to them. Like I said, I now have an understanding of their position. I do a search on the internet to find information, all of a sudden my social media is flooded with associated adverts and suggestions. Unsolicited email and phone calls are now a daily occurrence. On checking the numbers calling they are either totally made up or areRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}