How Does This Play Out?

“Wealth, to me, is discernment.” Mari Fonseca

By: Gabriela Yareliz

We are entering uncharted territory. We arrived here strongly during the pandemic, and we are still watching this unfold.

What happens when independent media presents hard facts— names, resumes, photos, first-hand personal testimony from people in the positions to know (many personally asked to break protocol), license plate numbers, regularly kept logs— and the mainstream media, with only half the attention on it, continues to slander, not present any facts but just unsubstantiated opinions and dig in its heels. Who wins?

And if independent media has a larger community, part of that community having personal knowledge, how do we move past this point of two lines that don’t converge. Two alternate realities being put forward with one truth. One group telling another group with first-hand knowledge that what they know isn’t true.

Is it one of those situations where people keep status quo with an awkward knowing layer of distrust that continues to thicken over time? Does mainstream become like a Netflix show we all know is fiction? What happens after truth is revealed? Are we sitting on a ticking time bomb?

I am intrigued. As always, time is our friend and will reveal all things. What remains interesting is the group of us that rejects the truth that time reveals. Ego winning that battle. Where do we go from there? Where does willful blindness take us, as a society? Does it drive us mad? What else does it lead us to reject?

One thing is certain, there is a battle for the soul out there. Truth arrives to those who seek it. We get what we seek. That is why one must be so careful to not just seek validation but to truly seek truth. If we choose blindness, we will be allowed to keep it. Times are interesting and strange. Discernment is everything.