1984 Is Not The Future
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Jacobello Alberegno The Beast of the Apocalypse 1360-90 The Guardian ran an article yesterday by one of its editors, David Shariatmadari, that
[See the full post at: 1984 Is Not The Future]I agree … I use a lot of salt
… information overload
… less capable of separating chaff from wheat.
…an overload of bullshit and propaganda
… a world in which all words and images are suspect
… ‘Ordinary people’ have already lost their capacity to tell truth from fiction.
… when photoshopping and video manipulation were still easily detectable. That window is closing fast.
A program developed at Stanford University allows users to convincingly put words into politicians’ mouths. Celebrities can be inserted into porn videos. Quite soon it will be all but impossible for ordinary people to tell what’s real and what’s not.
… anyone with a computer can now engage in the weaponization of information; 2016 was the year we woke up to the power of fake news,I would add …
Confuse the masses by using many different word that mean the same thing
Confuse the masses by using words that they do not regularly use
Confuse the masses by using words used by the educated elite
Confuse the masses by inventing a new expression to describe an old situation.MY REMINDER
Definition:The Onion
“Occasionally, the straight-faced manner in which The Onion reports non-existent events, happenings and ideas has resulted in third parties mistakenly citing The Onion stories as real news”.
Definition: Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.[1] Propaganda is often associated with material prepared by governments, but activist groups, companies and the media can also produce propaganda.
Definition: Fake news
Fake news is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda that consists of deliberate misinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media.[1] Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically,[2][3][4] often using sensationalist, dishonest, or outright fabricated headlines to increase readership, online sharing, and Internet click revenue.Is democracy dead? if voting is denied.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-election-ukraine/kiev-plans-to-prevent-russians-in-ukraine-from-voting-in-russian-election-idUKKCN1GS29L?src=ilaw
KIEV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian Interior Ministry will not allow Russian citizens in Ukraine to vote in Russia’s presidential election after Moscow decided that the vote would also be held in Crimea.
Russia seized the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and has since treated it as Russian territory despite economic sanctions from the West. As a result, polls will open in Crimea on Sunday to allow residents to vote in the Russia-wide ballot.As part of his campaign for re-election, President Vladimir Putin visited Crimea on Tuesday and addressed a crowd of cheering supporters with a speech that emphasised Russia’s claim to the territory.
@ Professorlocknload
Without the internet, as my source of knowledge, I would have been left confusedPareto’s Circulation of Elites: Characteristics and Criticisms
Pareto’s Circulation of Elites: Characteristics and Criticisms
I would classify myself as to being an elite in the category of irrelevant and invisible non-elite.
( 5. The members of the elite class will always try that the non- elites should not influence social, economic and political processes in any manner.)
Why do I need claims that fake videos are made incriminating fake people when Reuters is writing fake history as fact before the story is cold? We jumped that shark so long ago, it was discussed in journalism schools in the 90s. Whether you like it or agree with it, Russia held a referendum on self-determination, as supported by U.N. Article I, P2 and the ICCPR International Covenant on Rights. This is fairly well established to be a fair election, which had international access and review, +90% success rate, and no surprise, since Russia was on the upswing and Ukraine is into ethnic cleansing (perhaps eventually of the Crimean Tatars) and is one of the most corrupt, dysfunctional states on planet earth…really saying something there. That being the case, yes, Russia HAS treated territory they annexed by U.N. method in open elections as a part of Russia, that’s what “Annexing” means.
Not to worry, the handful of Russians in Ukraine that haven’t already been ethnically cleansed won’t tip an election the Western media is feverishly covering as is there is any hope for the NATO candidates who last time ’round got 1%. So cute. I wish they’d cover Jill Stein with half the hope and fervor. The saving grace is the article is too short to have thrown in a gratuitous slight to Donald Trump, although I didn’t click on it, so I expect there is one. Or two. Or at least on the sidebar. Which is what “objective”, #notfakenews means these days, right?
Oh Reuters, ’twas but a child when last you were honest, and now whole nations have grown up having never known.
Reuters, the BBC and all the rest of them have undermined their own value by presenting a very one-sided picture of what has been going on in the Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, Myanmar and many other places.
Very nice surgical proceedure on David’s article by Ilargi.
Tyler over at ZH has posted Ilargi’s thread as well.
We are indeed post-1984; the intent (if not the technology) has been there at least since 1947/48. But, it’s likely far before that.
George Kennan, author of PPS No.23 (1948) should be read; Yandex it.
Waking up to the world as it truly is, has been (for me at least) a long and painful process.
An inauthentic life is not worth living, IMO.
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