There has been a complete disintegration of freedom of thought and speech and there is total control of the media, elections and wars
Yet most people are blissfully unaware of it
From Matt Taibbi
‘Russiagate (Trump is apparently not a Russian spy) as a first great test case, the rise of a public-private “counter-disinformation complex” nurturing an “NGO Borg,” the importance of Trump and “domestic extremism” as organizing targets, the development of a new uniparty politics anointing itself “protector” of things like elections, amid many other things…
The messy process people like me (Matt Taibbi) got to see, just barely, in the outlines of Twitter emails made public by a one-in-a-million lucky strike, may not appear in recorded human conversations going forward. “Future battles fought through AI technologies,” … “will be harder to see.”
There is also no need for the scientific literature to be reported accurately. It doesn’t matter what is written down on the page, the MSM, including the BBC, the mouth piece of the one-party state, will claim the science supports the narrative, even when by their own misunderstanding of the causes of disease, it does not.
This is the biggest change in history in the way we allow every aspect of our lives to be influenced and organised.There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy when interests converge, though conspiracy or not, we have already ceded scientific truth and human independent thought and speech to the algorithm.
It is hard to see how we get off this path other than by individual awakening reaching a critical mass.
We hope that resistance is not futile.
Jo
Resistance is never futile. If nothing else, it’s for us, to know we’re doing the right thing as best we can, as long as we can. The way forward in terms of growth is always individual, not collective. It has to be this way. Everyone needs to carry their own water and cross the finish line alone. It’s just more evident now.
I hope it is not futile. But I feel that we must resist even if it is futile, even if we truly believed it was futile, we would need to resist anyway.