Gregory Bateson's concept of 'schismogenesis' comes to mind. My impression of the past few years has been that our rulers are very good at weaponizing the process.
Yes, it's quite laughable to watch people deem one half of media (mass or otherwise) "fake news" and part of conspiratorial power grab to take over the world, while simultaneously completing ignoring the fact that if that were true, then by extension all media could be used for manipulation, in particular media figures/podcasts/theories that a particularly group already follows and believes in. As if the all seeing powerful enemies of truth, can't possibly fathom manipulating people by feeding them ideas through media sources they already trust. Given that most people seem to apparently eat up just about everything their assigned media sources feed them .... it's a lay-up in population control.
Gregory Bateson's concept of 'schismogenesis' comes to mind. My impression of the past few years has been that our rulers are very good at weaponizing the process.
Yes, it's quite laughable to watch people deem one half of media (mass or otherwise) "fake news" and part of conspiratorial power grab to take over the world, while simultaneously completing ignoring the fact that if that were true, then by extension all media could be used for manipulation, in particular media figures/podcasts/theories that a particularly group already follows and believes in. As if the all seeing powerful enemies of truth, can't possibly fathom manipulating people by feeding them ideas through media sources they already trust. Given that most people seem to apparently eat up just about everything their assigned media sources feed them .... it's a lay-up in population control.
Yes, they're all good at it: rulers *and* ruled.