Monday, February 06, 2012
Estimate of the Situation
Recognizing patterns of fraud in the media is only one aspect of freeing our minds from government propaganda; understanding how to subvert fraudulent spectacles -- used to justify war on the environment and humanity -- requires an accurate estimate of the situation. In other words, exposing patterns of fraud is not enough; within a culture of imbeciles, we need other tools than mass persuasion.
Exposing patterns of fraud (i.e. Kuwait war, Iraq war, Libya war), through analysis of media deception, is useful in recruiting those previously neutralized by fake threats or inflated atrocities, but our expectations must be tempered by the hard facts of social reality. As suggested on Wrong Kind of Green and elsewhere, that requires we take into account the large numbers of self-deluded religious devotees and self-distracted consumers who will likely never become anything resembling a citizen, let alone revolutionary. In other words, the fully aware and fully committed will remain a minute proportion of the populace.
Given the asymmetry of this conflict, our comprehension of such things as psychological warfare and network dynamics is fundamental to our success. Using creative Internet formats in new ways is a vital part of that effort.
Exposing patterns of fraud (i.e. Kuwait war, Iraq war, Libya war), through analysis of media deception, is useful in recruiting those previously neutralized by fake threats or inflated atrocities, but our expectations must be tempered by the hard facts of social reality. As suggested on Wrong Kind of Green and elsewhere, that requires we take into account the large numbers of self-deluded religious devotees and self-distracted consumers who will likely never become anything resembling a citizen, let alone revolutionary. In other words, the fully aware and fully committed will remain a minute proportion of the populace.
Given the asymmetry of this conflict, our comprehension of such things as psychological warfare and network dynamics is fundamental to our success. Using creative Internet formats in new ways is a vital part of that effort.
