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This same pattern plays out in so many different places. 1. Massive concentration of power (in this case, the entertainment industry. I think 5 corporations co

by rkalla 14y ago

This same pattern plays out in so many different places. 1. Massive concentration of power (in this case, the entertainment industry. I think 5 corporations control 96% of commercial media [2] - TV/Movie/etc.) 2. Artificially powerful threat (in this case "pirates") always JUST about to destroy/harm/impact/irreparably damage #1. 3. #1 is justified in fighting a war on #2 -- physically, legally, financially, whatever. 4. For all intents and purposes, the stronger #2 (the "threat") seems, the easier job #1 has justifying ANY recourse. If #2 (the threat) isn't that strong on its own, I would imagine it be in the best interest of #1 to make it appear so and even help bolster it if necessary. 5. There is so much rhetoric, confusion, mix-facts, misreporting and fuzzy data being seeded and organically produced on the topic of "#1 vs #2" that it is impossible to cleanly and clearly make heads or tales of any of it -- well #1 has a point, but so does #2, but #2 is doing something illegal, but #1 is also doing illegal things... ad infinitum. 6. #1 continues to pump energy and complexity into #5 which engages, exhausts and overwhelms us until it becomes noise and we learn to tune it out. Think of a person standing in the middle of New York as opposed to the middle of a corn field -- our brains are wired to tune out repetitive audio and visual queues -- we are tuned to spot differentiation. #1 doesn't have to _hide_ anything per se, it just needs to amplify it and muddy the noise enough that it becomes repetitive. There are examples of this same strategy played out over and over and over again all over the world in all nooks and crannies of our lives - oil, pharmaceuticals, electronics, governments, publishers, music, farming/food, etc. I would expect this strategy is as old as mud, probably starting with its roots in false-flag[1] campaigns in the annals of history, but it works and it has been refined and continues to work -- just like the format for romantic comedy movies continues to work even though we've seen it 100,000 times and the format for super-hero movies works. We are incredibly manipulatable. Our convictions are disturbingly fragile and the worst part of it is that most of us are lead to believe exactly the opposite and completely reject the possibility that they are. I think _that_ is what makes us so susceptible to this type engineering and why it is so successful. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag [2] http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign//post-inline/IllusionofChoice-1.jpeg http://www.fastcodesign.com/multisite_files/codesign//post-i...

GHFigs 14y ago
You're buying into and regurgitating the myth that the world reduces into "good vs. evil" and that the difficulty involved in making sense of what's going on is not because the world is inherently complex but because somebody is pulling the wool over your eyes. "Wake up, sheeple!" I mean, really: if you're going to come so close to having a clue, why not just take that one extra step? Why does it always have to come back to declaring indifference a sin foist upon people by the Great Satan of the week?
- rkalla 14y ago
  It's a good point and unfortunately one I figured would get confused with what I wrote so I hummed and hawed about writing anything. I don't think you can distill the world down into "Good vs Evil" -- it would be easier if you could. What I do think is that power has an innate tendency to protect itself and concentrate and the mechanisms by which it does this _anywhere_ are all strikingly similar -- i.e. if you put them all in a pot and boiled off the water, you would maybe 3-5 different ways for doing this.

by rkalla 14y ago

GHFigs 14y ago

You're buying into and regurgitating the myth that the world reduces into "good vs. evil" and that the difficulty involved in making sense of what's going on is not because the world is inherently complex but because somebody is pulling the wool over your eyes. "Wake up, sheeple!" I mean, really: if you're going to come so close to having a clue, why not just take that one extra step? Why does it always have to come back to declaring indifference a sin foist upon people by the Great Satan of the week?

rkalla 14y ago
It's a good point and unfortunately one I figured would get confused with what I wrote so I hummed and hawed about writing anything. I don't think you can distill the world down into "Good vs Evil" -- it would be easier if you could. What I do think is that power has an innate tendency to protect itself and concentrate and the mechanisms by which it does this _anywhere_ are all strikingly similar -- i.e. if you put them all in a pot and boiled off the water, you would maybe 3-5 different ways for doing this.