Spin Is Everywhere

Be careful of the claims of capitalism's prosperity. Those who make the claim typically only include figures from the U.S. or some other Western nation. What is conveniently avoided is the effect of capitalism on the rest of the world. Many of this planet’s poorest and underdeveloped countries supply the West with its capitalist-based goods. By this arrangement we separate and try to hide the negative side of capitalism then don’t look at it in order to make positive claims.

We also do this with religion. Those who wish to support one religion or another rarely put front and center the evil caused by their own religious belief and dogma. The purely evil edicts of another’s religion will be readily pointed out, but not those of one’s own.

Spin is not purely a political phenomenon.