Not news: pervasive anger is inflaming and polarizing the populations of the free world.
News: that polarizing anger is the engineered outcome of a set of practitioners of what I will call “amplified goebbelsology.”
Many blame the anger on social media; and indeed, social media is one of three things that distinguish the old simple goebbelsology from today’s amplified goebbelsology.
But there’s so much more to it than just social media.
In the coming days I will show more about the gang that has provoked us all, applying their incredible skill to the process.
We’ll show why, for instance, the abortion issue has become so much more inflammatory than it was both before and after the years around the Roe v. Wade decision, when the calmer public discourse was about when life begins and what circumstances should be considered. Now of course it’s Pick a side and let’s fight!
What accounts for the change? I’ll show you.
We’ll show why Bill Maher has become such a pariah, by defying the goebbelsology gestapo’s expert manipulation of perceptions in order to engineer the dominance of our limbic brain over our neocortex.
No, they’re not messing with our drinking water. Like the work of a great stage magician, it’s all done with perceptions.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
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.