ABOUT KARL ROEBLING
Karl Roebling has "sounded off" on national and international topics since youth in the Thirties. He reads fifty periodicals a month and imbibes world and international TV news and analysis, and documentaries. He has knapsacked the world seeing the slums and vast populations. In a world which on the one hand has "gone organizational," and on the other hand has exploded with individual-expression blogs and websites, he sets forth his independent-citizen thoughts on major secular topics.
He has written several books on secular topics. In addition, he has wriitten many books and papers on spiritual-themed topics, the current ones shown in links in the left-hand column.
He has also written articles, many op-eds, and has made many radio appearances.
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Independent Thought
Almost all opinions in major broadcast and print media today come from organizational backgrounds, not from the independent thought on which the nation was founded. Organizational thought reflects certain mindsets, and on the other hand, tends to underreport things which don't fit the general mindset. Major news anchorpeople-editors on TV are paid huge sums, and consciously or unconsciously are certain to reflect upper-income thoughts.
Consolidation of media into immense corporation holdings also affects the thinking of employees. For example, whereas independent newspaper editors once were the backbone of American media, today they are still excellent people and very valuable, but they are under a higher layer or even several higher layers of corporate ownership. A deep danger today is "mindset media."
BACKGROUND
Born in New Jersey in 1929, he spent his early years on a Dixie farm surrounded by Depression poverty. He attended prep school in the New York area, and Princeton for a year and a semester before serving in the US Army 1950-1953 (Korean War period, enlisted and officer). Writing and publishing occupies most of his time today, but over the course of fifty years, he has also worked in advertising, PR, real estate development, construction, sales and rentals.
