I was impressed with the cartoon on the newspaper’s opinion page of Sept. 27.

It depicted a chair on the left with a set of papers marked “peace talks .” Next to it was an Israeli flag. On the opposite side of the table was another chair, “peace talk” papers and a Palestinian flag. Only the flag, chair and papers are shown upside-down.

At first glance, it looks like the Palestinians are the people out of sync with reality. If you don’t look real carefully at the whole frame, you might walk away thinking, “Boy, those Palestinians are nuts!”

However, if you look at the whole frame, you will notice that the artist, Bennett, of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, has signed both the top and bottom of the frame. If you turn the whole frame around, as I’m sure the artist intended, you will see that the Israelis are now the ones out of sync with reality.

It just goes to show that unless we look at the world from all possible points of view, we will get a distorted sense of reality.

In a way, the corporate-controlled media has been presenting this distorted point of view for quite some time, now. True, they hide the truth somewhere in the story. That truth is far overpowered by the view they really want us to see.

The recent manifestation of the Occupy Maine, Occupy Wall Street and other Occupation rallies is a good sign that the vast majority of people are beginning to see where their troubles are really coming from.

As they said back in the ’60s: “Power to the people.”

Peter P. Sirois

Madison