Jack of Harts

I was 17 going on 18 when everything changed for me. I was young and naive. I thought the media would tell us the truth back then. Or at least the best truth they knew. They might be wrong, but they wouldn’t LIE to me. Right? But studying the facts of both Ruby Ridge and Waco forced me to set aside that naivety. The media absolutely does have an agenda. Different networks have different agendas. Some are good for us, some are bad for us. I was 18 when I first began to understand that “distrust but verify” had to be the test I gave to every media and government outlet. And that is why, to this day, I distrust the media and the government as my default setting. Evidence may come to light that they are telling the truth in certain cases, but “distrust but verify” will generally put you on the right side of the truth in most cases. Realizing that at 18 changed my worldview in every way that mattered.