The Psychology of a culture is revealed and perpetuated in how they relate to and treat their children and in how they relate to and treat the most vulnerable people within their society. Heal that and we can heal everything.
hmmmmm.... what kind of culture generates this kind of politically manipulative content, and calls it free speech? It is incitement, and it undermines the meaning of Free Speech.
Free Speech is the political and legislative directive that the State must never seek to prevent honest political and cultural discourse amongst the people, or any of their associations.
It was not thought of as Freedom to Incite or Manipulate using relative beliefs to escalate bigotry.
Those freedoms already existed under Law as religious freedoms.
Set out your belief, set up a text, a church and register as a charity.... belief what you like, convince others to adopt same belief, get them to pay all your life expenses, and more. Manipulate and incite as much as you want, do not aim at the State.
That was the context in which modern Free Speech emerged.
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A short graphic video covering the progression of news presentation since the 1500s, right up to tomorrow and the foreseeable future. There's a fundamental design flaw in public service political and general news presentation.
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aphorism : "we are not our skin, we are the person within, skin deep is colour blinded."
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I think this graphic video is quite cool, clever, direct, unassuming.
Please enjoy!
Here's my take, my opinion if you will.
Opinion posing as prima facie evidence for public news content is fake news.
If we understand public news function as informing the reader, informing the population at large, with reliable accurate record and knowledge of matters that affect their lives, so that they might agitate for improvement of society, as the population are the majority. Seems like a reasonable concept. As such it remains so.
An opinion page is not news, nor is it information. Telling people what to think embedded within text content that is not reporting the event, that is instead forming an opinion for the reader to agree with based on known biases. Is not Public News.
Let people form their own opinions based on honest information. Lay out all the facts and evidence, record the witnesses testimony, say who did what, what it was , what the outcomes were and then listen to what response the population has to that accurate information - with a lean towards forming evidence based understandings being the normal, the cultural normative of transparent democratic governance. Context. The condition in which we are forced to live our lives.
I don't think it's a lot to ask, even though I know those who would reject that, and adopt a defensive stance are indeed mighty institutions populated by people who have internalised the cultural values of the institutions.
They will defend the institutions as if defending themselves, their sense of self informed by internalising system values.
What are those institutional values?
Prime among them are Wealth and Power, for without either one cannot do much, certainly one cannot wage war without both in ample supply. And so forth.
Those values if they become an end on and of themselves will always corrupt and distort human relations, and disrupt healthy relations between different parts of our human family, our species.
Fake news tries to mask that and spread choice making and behaviour rooted in emotionally charged reactive opinion as a democratic weaponisation of the voting system. Get loads of angry people to vote, based on different themes, set them against each other. Sell ads while doing that - it is the exact same industrial process.
It needs to stop.
Utter cruelty.
Kindest regards
Corneilius
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