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In a broader sense, the exhaustive storm of BS is deliberate: When the people are too damn tired to care about which story is really true, it changes the playin
by Terr_ 2y ago
In a broader sense, the exhaustive storm of BS is deliberate: When the people are too damn tired to care about which story is really true, it changes the playing field to favor whoever is willing to tell the most-pleasing lies.
- hermitcrab 2y agoThat is classic Russian disinformation isn't it? Fill every channel with contradictory information, until no-one knows what to believe.
- Terr_ 2y agoEventually it dovetails with the dynamics of: "The way you have to pretend to believe/avoid my obvious lies is a demonstration of my power and an implicit threat to others." Then: "By forcing you to publicly sacrifice your integrity, I've poisoned any future resistance with mutual doubt." > He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can’t help it. You catch it off him. -- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
- datameta 2y agoYes, it is known as Hypernormalization.
- hermitcrab 2y agoMy understand of Hyper Normalisation is that it is the construction of a fake reality that everyone agrees on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation Which is different to flooding the channels with contradictory information, so that no-one knows what to believe. The film 'Hyper Normalisation', by Adam Curtis, is well worth watching, BTW.
- RealityVoid 2y agoWell, that fits as well for the CG crowd.
- hermitcrab 2y agoCG?
- RealityVoid 2y agoCalin Georgescu, the candidate that hasrussian support. Kind of how US abbreviates Donald Trump as DJT.
- hermitcrab 2y ago>that everyone agrees on (or, at least, pretends to)
- datameta 2y agoFlooding the channels is step one. Construction of the fake reality follows. I also recommend that documentary, it details "how we got here".
- jokethrowaway 2y agoI don't think this is what's happening. There is no confusion. Europe is going down the drain due to the lack of innovation and over-regulation making people poorer and poorer. Refugees cause crime on the street making people feel unsafe. The average Joe is pissed and votes whatever extremists, as long as they oppose the EU.
- RealityVoid 2y agoTrust me, there is confusion. We have inequality in Romania, but we don't have flrefugees causing crime or making people feel unsafe. The quality of life as steadily been improving. There is lack of faith in the political class.
- gmueckl 2y agoAnd Russia is happily adding fuel to that fire. It's a divide and conquer strategy for them.