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When we are fooled into believing the battle over information is, in fact, a battle over our reality, we have already lost the war Today, “communications” is the science of influence. Mass communication is the study of how governments and corporations can control their populations and customers. Information and big data are the modern sciences
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A steady diet of lies feeds a growing public hysteria. We are conditioned to fear and this fear feeds on itself until we are ready to go to war and give up our basic rights all in the name of safety from some imaginary threat.
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An informed citizenry is a direct threat to corporate power. Corporations would rather have a population that is easily influenced to accept whatever message is given them by the corporate controlled media.
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In American politics & Advertising formal public relations projects which deliberately seek to engineer the impression of spontaneous grassroots behavior. The goal is the appearance of independent public reaction to a politician, political group, product, service, event or similar entities by centrally orchestrating the behavior of many diverse and geographically distributed individuals.
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Garbage in produces garbage out. However if the garbage is really designed to confuse or consume bandwidth & attention, then is it really garbage? It may be garbage to most but it is serving a purpose in the wars of ideas. Garbage/noise is consuming some portion of our attention. It is crowding out or masking
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Dissent only matters if it interferes with government or corporate plans.