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No. You were living in a contrived bubble of manufactured consent that was already post-fact. For instance did Saddam have nukes? No. But it was validated by a
by devoply 10y ago
No. You were living in a contrived bubble of manufactured consent that was already post-fact. For instance did Saddam have nukes? No. But it was validated by a controlled mass media. The century of self guaranteed this sort of outcome. And there are other political crises looming mainly due to the way that mass psychology has been programmed and encouraged by business interests and the establishment.
People are presuming their desires in what they want to believe. How they want reality to be. They don't really care about your or the elite's opinions. It's getting more and more difficult to control people's irrational behavior and erratic thought patterns because they are fed by desire to believe. Not what is true, because who determines the truth? Their leaders? They don't trust them. Business interests? They don't trust them. The Church? You get the idea.
Putin is simply catching up to the West in terms of propaganda. All the stuff described has been going on in America and the rest of the West for a century since Sigmund Freud turned the establishment on to the subconscious. It's been down hill from there. It's just when the playing field is leveled then the possibilities are scary.
- noir_lord 10y agoUnfortunately I get what you are saying and its bleak, I try to avoid the trap with the media by reading lots of different ones and finding their sources, other stuff helps like listening to a politicians speech directly rather than opinions on that speech (YouTube * 1.5 speed is useful). I still question whether my worldview is an accurate inference from the evidence prevented but that slaps bang into philosophy and navel gazing.