Cathal McCarthy

About Cathal McCarthy

Fringe journalism, documentaries, community activism and whatever else takes my fancy; this channel has eclectic content, which is produced at my leisure for your pleasure...well would you look at that, I'm a poet and i didn't even know it

When I started this channel in 2014 the description of it was just the following quote:

"The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information. A dictatorship, on the other hand, maintains itself by censoring or distorting the facts, and by appealing, not to reason, not to enlightened self-interest, but to passion and prejudice, to the powerful 'hidden forces', as Hitler called them, present in the unconscious depths of every human mind." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 6: The Arts Of Selling

As i type this in 2021 it resonates even more, so I leave it up for you to contemplate.

Be seeing you

PS: Yes, I'm a fan of The Prisoner