Onionheart's blog post - Sun in Cancer Moon in Libra

Sun in Cancer - moon in Libra

So many unrelated currrents of momentous import are upon us now. It takes courage to have eyes and ears open to what is happening now.

I look at news all over the journalistic spectrum, but I have not yet disengaged from CBC Radio. It has been my constant companion for the past 56 years. I became welded to CBC Radio in my teen years, listening to late night discussions, frequently with earphones, high on LSD. Now I can hear the voices of Robertson Davies and Marshall McLuhan and Leonard Cohen. Radio is both intimate and eternal.

As I have said before, one of the biggest piss-offs is the use of the word "counterintuitive". You hear it so frequently on the radio. It is an idiotic expression.

You either understand the word intuition or you don't. If the word does live in your vocabulary then you try to protect it from contamination and trivialization. Intuition is a dynamic and perennial function of the psyche. It is one of the four functions of the mind as elucidated by Carl Jung. Analytical Psychology has much to offer us now as an intellectual framework.

In popular media you hear the word "counterintuitive" to describe something not obvious, not guessable, not sequential. But if the living meaning of the word intuition is important to you, you do not engage it in this way. Because the mental effort of guessing is not the same as the manifestation of Intuition. No comparison. Guessing is really an action of Thinking. Thinking is one of the other Jungian four functions. Thinking and Intuition are not interchangeable.

CBC Radio has done a pisspoor job of telling the truth about climate change. During the afternoon commute you will hear the radio announcer grooming and stroking the solitary driver/commuter as though they were the crown of creation, the zenith of consumerism, the big boss. Very, very little discussion of public transit or social responsibility. CBC Radio is a pimp for the automotive inustry.

The choice of words for the newscast during the commute hours is very indirect and imprecise. The driver/listener might change the channel if they are being challenged or insulted.

The other day I turned the radio on in the early afternoon. I heard a small group of 30-year olds laughing about something, jabbering away. So I listened more closely and then realized that they were all laughing about what they had watched on an American latenight tv talkshow, the night before. It broke my heart. For fuck sake!


Don't they know why CBC Radio was created? Don't they know the real story? I think that those CBC thinkers who were loyal to the real stature of independent media got weeded out. Nowadays on CBC Radio you can listen for more than two hours without hearing a single Canadian musical selection. The people making decisions are less intelligent, less knowledgeable, less competent. Why do I keep listening to this crap? Huge amounts of taxpayer public $$$ going to big American corporations. American pop music is not free.

Why the fuck does CBC Radio play American pop songs that can be heard on six different commercial stations here in Montréal? It would appear that CBC Radio has admitted defeat, given up, surrendered to the tyrant of American pop music. It is becoming more and more rare to hear a Canadian grass roots song played from beginning to end.

The only positive thing that I have to say about CBC Radio and its social commentary is the way that the public is being informed about the residential schools. Thousands of indigenous children were xxxxxxxxxx to attend residential schools , and sometimes they did not return home. Only now with the technology of ground penetrating radar have the graves been discovered. And the Roman Catholic Church which ran the residential schools does not want to cooperate in the investigation.

Children were abused, tortured and murdered by the priests. It is unbelievably sad and brutal. For many years the church has tried to keep it hidden. The possibility that they will have to pay retribution is what is most dominant in their thinking. The Vatican sits on huge piles of money, fine art, and properties that are never disclosed to the public. No doubt one of the wealthiest entities on the planet.

CBC Radio is now poised to directly confront the Roman Catholic Church and accuse them of murder. This is correct use of public radio, and I commend them on their bravery. This is a very ugly fight, but it is essential. The Roman Catholic Church is the embodiment of evil.