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LOL, Fail …

Wisdom in our modern world may boil down to recognizing that LOL and fail and trashy and OMG don’t actually represent different categories of human experience. Current culture kicks up ambivalence and regret. We mask our dread with peanut brittle and daiquiris.

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Hate the media

If you are not careful the media will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. -Malcolm X

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The battle over information

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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Fight the culture of fear

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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Astroturfing:

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.