The Koolaid Metaphor

I've found myself using the metaphor of "drinking the koolaid" a lot these days and I suppose that requires a little explanation, especially for those who are younger. In 1978 something like 912 followers of Rev. Jim Jones committed suicide by drinking a concoction characterized by the news media as "koolaid" laced with cyanide and tranquillizers and other stuff. WIKIPEDIA ON JONESTOWN
When I use the phrase "drinking the koolaid" I mean that people are letting others do their thinking for them. They are buying into the spin which is always agenda driven. Any story that advances the agenda is operative and any story that doesn't is forbidden. We see this in the coverage of the black man who brought a gun to an Obama rally. Much of the news media made much of this event but a lot of them cropped the pictures to conceal the fact that the bearer of the gun was a black man. That fact didn't fit the script. It didn't match the agenda.
Reality trumps spin. When we embrace agenda driven strategies we truncate thought and we make the goal more important than the journey and more important than truth itself. That's wrong. Goals are only legitimate if they are motivated by reality. Truth is another name for reality.
I can hear the snide response: "Well that may be your truth but it's not mine." Because truth is reality this is an incoherent remark except insofar as it means: "You're mistaken because my truth is the real truth." OK — that's fair. So let's see which "truth" actually stands up to the reality and which is just "koolaid" drinking.
Truth is distinguished by being able to stand deep and determined investigation. So when you see folks backing away from investigation what they're implicitly saying is either they had not done their homework, or, of more concern, that they know that their position won't stand investigation. These latter ones are the true "koolaid drinkers" but the ones that act in doubt are "koolaid drinkers in training." When truth stops mattering and is sacrificed to the agenda, then we have arrived at tyranny. So when we see koolaid drinking going on, we know we are seeing Tyranny Rising!
* In case you're unconvinced you might want to CHECK OUT THIS an egregious example of the koolaid swilling media bias.