We like to blame the dumbing down of society to the electronic joy we are now inundated with in our lives. While this is somewhat true, it is not a new phenomenon. Throughout history, the people who controlled the information controlled the people. This is not conspiracy, it is simply a fact. Today I simply overview the problem. How information was released, used, and manipulated has been used by the powerful hierarchies in human society for millennia. I have talked about this at times in this blog. What is new today is the concerted effort by the controlling hierarchies to try and dominate the media and especially the internet that has been the biggest disruption in how information is now used throughout the world. The internet did something unparalleled, it allowed open unedited information to everyone. That was great, but it also gave ‘everyone’ access to voice their opinion and beliefs, whatever they were. That is why I have supported internet literacy – learn how to spot the good from the bad and especially the rubbish. In China, the internet is controlled to a point – don’t want people having a dissenting perspective from the mainstream. In the U.S. the FCC is comprised of five commissioners that serve for 5 year terms. In December, 2017, the commissioners in a 3-2 vote repealed ‘Net neutrality’ – essentially repealing the rules that prohibit how internet businesses can block specific websites, charging for higher-quality service, or charge differentially higher on websites whose content of which they may disapprove. Two days ago, the U.S. Senate voted to continue Net Neutrality. That now has to go to the U.S. House of Representatives that must also agree before it goes to the President who must sign the bill. The likelihood of this happening is unlikely – a snowball in hell.
We’ve had the Wiki-leaks, and the Snowden files that have disclosed previously ‘secret’ information. Secrets are merely information that others do not want you to know. Many excellent researchers and investigative reporters have done phenomenal jobs of piercing together information that tell a different story from the mainstream messaging. This alternate messaging is all out there waiting to be read and viewed, but the hierarchy would rather you not be bothered by alternate perspectives. The humorist Will Rogers is reputed to have picked up a local newspaper and told the people he was talking with that his father would have liked their paper because it didn’t confuse you with two points of view. Today we always have two points of view in the news – the mainstream perspective and then Fox news. If you watch public broadcasting you may get a deeper perspective that is somewhat fairer reporting, but it is still mainstream. Don’t expect serious disclosure anytime soon there. Search through the internet and you will get many alternate perspectives. Figuring out which are good and which are merely alternate hierarchical propaganda takes a lot of figuring out. The hierarchy does not want you to think for yourself. You might ask “what do they want to cover up besides the basic corruption that seems typical of politics these days.” It seems that the comedic talk show hosts give more meaningful coverage of the daily news than most news outlets. The reasonable news programs try to be fair in giving the knowledgeable talking heads for two points of view, but it is still mainstream perspective messaging.
There is a wonderful term ‘Preemptive Programming.’ It was used in computer technology to describe the act of temporarily interrupting a lower priority task being carried out by the computer to allow a higher priority task to be completed first – the lower priority task would presumably be completed at a later time Apparently, truth and disclosure is a very low priority in in the mainstream circuits, while propaganda and mundane crap that keep humanity in a dazed, confused and fearful state are higher priority! Mundane minutia like how many pieces of toilet paper did the Donald use today and whether his latest tweet upset anyone new make up most of the daily news. Of course, Harry and Meghan’s wedding this Saturday in London is the biggest news of the year to date. Who cares if Israeli snipers this past week seem to have deliberately shot non-Israeli civilians quietly standing around and then the medics dressed in bright orange jackets that were tending to the wounded? And we are not yet talking about the stuff that is highly classified that has nothing to do with ‘national security’ paranoia but is secret anyway. Humanity is being deliberately programmed to only listen to a few seconds of sound bites that the hierarchy want them to hear, and then bring on the dancing girls or the Chippendales before they actually think and begin to ask questions. If the hierarchy want you to see more than the sound bites you will get the ‘crisis orientation’ that goes on and on for days covering the same story. And now over to beautiful Alice reporting form the crisis center at disaster X, “so Alice, anything new?” Alice, “Not yet, but there are lots more blinking lights to be seen that probably mean nothing. Keep coming back for more updates every ten minutes. Back to you in the studio.” Meanwhile, on the TV screens and ipads, there are endless reruns of the blinking lights to show you the news people are doing their jobs being at the place where the blinking lights are occurring!! There is some serious news out there, but unless you actually made it a point to look for it, you will not see it. AND if you look for it on Facebook, note that the algorithms of social media merely analyze what you have been looking at and keep giving you more of what you want to see. You actually have to confuse the algorithm by looking at sites you don’t agree with and start getting more varied perspectives. Not that you have to agree with these alternate perspectives, but knowing they are there is a step in becoming more critical in your thinking. TBC…..
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