![]() And they come home and pop on Fox News and that stuff beams straight into their heads, into their reptile brains, bypassing judgment, bypassing morals, even bypassing the survival instinct. Net Neutrality would be a step, but you've got those poor simpletons driving around in their cars listening to the radio and buying into the most shameful propaganda since The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Even though that goes against everything I believe (back to those "most strongly-held beliefs") I'm watching the society in which I live turned against itself to satisfy the urges of a very few powerful folks. Honestly, I'm starting to believe that we need serious regulations on advertising, public relations and commercial media. They can't do it perfectly, but they can do it well enough to turn our world to shit. Using the extremely potent psy ops weapons at their disposal, they can convince you of nearly everything, sell you almost anything, and make you doubt your most strongly-held beliefs. Even though we all laughed at those poor losers who majored in "Communications", it seems that they are having the last laugh. I've met some very powerful minds in my life, but none of them, not one, was capable of completely making themselves immune to the science of well-funded marketing or public relations. The only acceptible solution is that people develop better bullshit detectors and participate more in the pruning of submissions. When such a large portion of the information that people consume is agenda-driven, and barely concealed agit-prop in support of groups with the resources to saturate the media, what chance do we have to make decisions, to act based on reliable data? But I guess that's the whole point. Who stands to benefit from these mis-characterizations? The peaceful protests are characterized as "riots". In the last few days, I've read at least a half-dozen news stories about the "over-privileged" schoolteachers of Wisconsin, whose average "gold-plated" pensions of $20k/year makes them "bottom-feeders", "pigs" and "fat cats". Faits accomplis.Ī rapidly increasing amount of our "news" is driven by press releases put out by astroturf specialists which get polished by lazy journalists into stories that serve the interests of their bosses. Ubuntu is "done" These links were not posted with summaries saying "This is what so-and-so said" but rather "This is the truth". ![]() Somebody took the time to post these stories, to post those single links and to wrap them in a summary with an air of inevitability. It's funny that within a few hours we had a story with a single link in a summary that posited an inexorable decline for Google because of a "slew" of "negative stories" and then another summary, with a single link, that describes Ubuntu's decline. Slashdot summaries are frequently a bunch of opinions stated as if true, followed by pointless questions, submitted by people with a vested interest in the topic.Įxactly so. ![]()
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