It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.Now, what is still more important, to the extent to which our thoughts and habits are modified by authorities.In departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power”.The narrative must be controlled, it must be shaped and deviations from it must be curtailed and marginalized. It’s all very well to say that social media networks have an overwhelming tendency for people to segregate into in-group out-group and thus Facebook is to blame for Trump’s victory in the USA but surely it’s the cross-pollination of advertised ideology (Russian interference) made possible by the interconnectedness that swayed enough voters who’d otherwise NOT have voted Trump, into voting for Trump. When the institutional scaffolding of a system begins to buckle, and when the credibility of traditional sources of mainstream news go into secular decline, the Overton Window constricts.Of the Government / Mainstream Media / Big Tech triumvirate, only Big Tech is on the ascendency. HyperNormalisation (2016 + subs) by Adam Curtis - A different experience of reality FULL DOCUMENTARY - Duration: 2:46:32. SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES US CANNON FODDER FOR PERPETUAL HYPERNORMALISATION BULLSHIT It’s all very well to say that social media networks have an overwhelming tendency for people to segregate into in-group out-group and thus Facebook is to blame for Trump’s victory in the USA but surely it’s the cross-pollination of advertised ideology (Russian interference) made possible by the … HyperNormalisation (2016 + subs) by Adam Curtis - A different experience of reality FULL DOCUMENTARY - Duration: 2:46:32. Without saying it openly – cuz they say regulate Facebook or Twitter – they are saying “don’t let all that mass of individuals NOT be conditioned” … even if the conditioning is for the good.Big data and algorithms reduce a lot of the outlier exceptionalism that motivates most content creators and set apart elites (money aside) into a REAL picture of the individuals in society; far more authentic than ideologically or politically based confirmation bias / cognitive dissonance.The picture is more bleak because it’s a more widespread problem: populism is popular because most people are reactive talking voting apes without education or capacity to parse reality into truth.The endless conflation of rhetoric and ideology is a tedious blind alley. Blame Trump. And it should be.There are too many initiatives seeking to control that release and infringe upon real world liberties.Right now things are extraordinarily tense and brittle. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow Newslegion. Bernays deemed this a necessity of a smooth operating society. That’s when deplatforming and cancel culture come into play. Enter your email below to receive a concise, insightful weekly briefing and stay informed about cyberthreats and relevant tech happenings. Trump a stark contrast to the likes of Hilary Clinton in this regard. Ubercynics aspire to be always honest (though often in the wrong). Millions of people have lost their jobs, countless businesses have shut down, many to never reopen.To now step into the open forum of discourse and into the marketplace of ideas and tell people what is and isn’t permissible to believe and think is just adding more fuel to an already building pressure cooker that is primed to foment social unrest.After being contacted earlier this week on behalf people who were deplatformed from Facebook who are trying to organize anti-lockdown protests and online dissent, I’ve decided to make my latest book, This book is the missing manual for defending your content and your free speech online.
Right-wingers have always respected power and authority and direct regulation of opposition and society. A tree, no matter the species…Smart Farms: Facebook AI powers John Deere robotics (If you’re curious as to what a New Green Deal, Greta Thunberg-style radical decarbonization program plays out, what is happening now is just a modest hint of what that would be like. The continued Russia narrative just another in a succession of hyper-normalisation tactics to obfuscate attention, keep the narrative-actors busily arguing in the confusion and leaving what matters to those with hands-on the reigns of power. As I … Then give that away far and wide.The fact is the internet is a type of gas release valve.