How to defeat the First Amendment in two easy steps
Here’s how the troll farms set about destroying our freedoms
Using the principles of goebbelsology, the troll farms simply find, and give a voice to, the advocates of something that large numbers of people will detest and whose reaction will be “anything, including an end to freedom of speech, would be better than that.”
To illustrate, Bill Maher noted that
“Part of the appeal of a Herschel Walker or a Donald Trump or any number of egregious a__holes Republicans have backed is in their mind the worse a candidate is the more it says to Democrats ‘Do you see how much we don’t like what you’re selling, all that socialism and identity politics and victimhood and oversensitivity and cancel culture and white self-loathing and forcing complicated ideas about race and sex on kids too young to understand it? Literally anything would be better than that.’” (Emphasis is mine.)
Thus in order for the troll farms to get the “far right” (whatever that means) to try to silence the “wokes” (whatever that means,) they just have to promote the shrillest voices of the “wokes”.
After that first step, those same troll farms promote the shrillest voices of the “far right,” provoking the “wokes” to try to silence the “far right.”
Result: both sides start doubting the value of freedom of expression.
People in “the West” (whatever that means) tend to think that advocates for some social or political point of view are speaking from some kind of sincere belief in something.
In the case of the troll farms, that view is thoroughly mistaken.
Behind the scenes, the operators of the troll farms have a good laugh at that naiveté. They don’t believe in anything – except that the freedoms of “the West” make them look and feel inferior. And so they must provoke civil war in “the West” in order to destroy those freedoms and bring those entitled westerners down to their dismal level.
They’ve been that way at least since Peter The Great had his court and the aristocracy in the Russian capital of Leningrad speaking French instead of Russian. In the intervening centuries, and particularly since the invention of broadcast and social media and their discovery of methods of getting the limbic brains of audiences to push aside the work of their neocortical brains, they’ve been hard at work trying to cause trouble in the rest of the world.
We all know the individual counterpart of that, right? You know, the jealous person who works hard at manipulating the perceptions of friends and family to cause fights among those who have their lives together – instead of working to get their own life together…
It’s really as simple as that.
Don’t try to read ideology and principle and beliefs into it.
About the Author
In 1981 Wes Kussmaul, working with friends at the MIT Joint Computer Facility, created the world’s first online encyclopedia, implemented using what he calls “the world’s worst business model.” Over the the next year the addition of social features transformed the encyclopedia into the more sustainable Delphi social network, which in 1993 was sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News America Corp.
Wes is the author of four books about bringing accountability with privacy back to social networks. One of those books caught the attention of a group at the ITU, a United Nations agency, while it was building a global PKI-based source of trust that resembled what the book advocated. Wes announced its re-launch as The City of Osmio in a 2008 presentation to the United Nations World Summit on Information Society.
Wes is the founder of The Authenticity Institute, a provider of a PKI platform to licensed Authenticity Enterprises, which may be seen here. The outcome of the work of those Authenticity Enterprises may be seen at Authentiverse.