Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fake news. Show all posts

Fake News, Aphorism Wisdom and a sense of humour.


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.

--- Be honest ---

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.

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Fake news, bullying, indoctrination and politics.

New York Mag article on FAKE NEWS SITES.





They do not include the mainstream media that LIED to the hilt to promote the War of Aggression against Iraq, the supreme War Crime, in that it contains all others...


That media activity is and was a War Crime.

Period. No exception, no excuses.

Everyone who wrote for that war is a war criminal.

It is one of the largest co-ordinated institutional bullying operations of recent years, if not the largest.

The data and evidence that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, or was not harbouring Islamic Terrorists planning waves of terrorism, or was in any way, shape or form a threat to the UK or the USA was widely available.

The mainstream media ignored all this. They printed fake shit, day in day out. They still do.

The writers, editors and owners understood that they could get away with the criminal activity they were engaged in because they knew that a majority of people believe what they read in officially approved text books, such as we use in school, and in Scriptures. It's called indoctrination.

Here's the psycho-social background.

We spend years in school, coerced into reading texts, and regurgitating them to get exam results, (with the threat that unless we conform we will be impoverished all our lives and live as rabble) and that 12 years of institutional bullying trains people to not use critical analysis, pattern observation, detail examination; just to repeat as directed.


Add to that the knowledge that a majority of people see politics as corrupt and unresponsive (an accurate perception) just as the schools are corrupt and unresponsive, (most people are unwilling to acknowledge this) and you get the heady cocktail of a power establishment that bullies so much that most people are de-sensitised to all but the most extreme and obvious forms of bullying, and a significant percentage tend to be bullies within their own lives and work, more often if they ever assume positions of relative power that generates high income.

https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/how-bullying-works-projection-and-scapegoating/

This article shows, in some detail, the dynamics of political institutional bullying and it also reveals much about how the personal is political.

Readers will have epiphanies as they explore it. You will see aspects of your own life experience detailed. It might even be a healing experience.

Anyone discussing politics who does not zero in on the bullying is self disabling, self dis-empowering and 100% unable to deal with the situation.

Whatever one's leaning, (left, right, center, green, blah, blah, blah) if we do NOT discuss the bullying FIRST, the rest of our conversation is futile.

Talk about economics - zero in on the bullying, the rest will fall into place.

Talk about environment - zero in on the bullying, the rest will fall into place.

Avoid the issue of bullying and that guarantees that the bullying continues - look at what happens in our state school system. That's a prime example of 'environmentalists' missing a key pollutant that alters the psychology of the entire grass roots.

So yeah, Bullying. Deal with it or be bullied, that is the fundamental reality, as individuals and as collectives.


Kindest regards

Corneilius

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