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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (176855)	8/21/2021 9:33:23 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220310

The only quibbles i have with his... The bias in expectation that the behaviors are primarily emergent in origin... is charming... as the expectation that goodwill exists, but is simply insufficient in itself in resisting social "drift" ? He wants to believe the worst you see in full expression of others choices "just happens" because to believe others see and understand what does... and then author excesses knowingly... is just too horrible for him to believe ? So, there is no hidden hand guiding events, rather than only being guided by them... even while believing themselves in control of those factors, in error, as truly they are only created by them ? My view is admittedly significantly darker... the requirements in fostering the opposite [quality in education vs indoctrination, liberal belief and advocacy for the liberal advances of our age: free speech, etc. vs. controlled speech] all being clear and deliberate targets of those illiberal agents who do know how to manipulate others, should in itself be clear enough proof of intent in both enabling and steering such "emergent" behaviors into the fertile soils enabled for them to grow upon ? I expect I will disagree with a number of his propositions in "fixing it"... for that reason... Which does not make me a pessimist... I am cheered by how roundly ineffective the efforts undertaken are proving... including that in lying about how effective they have been... A bifurcated media offers more of a measure than intended or allowed in enabling recognition in metrics ? Even in his own view... presenting the media as producing an unassailable reality while itself defining and forcing into existence a monolith in public opinion, as the alternatives craft a tiny out group within the media barely managing to hang on against the flood of fraud fostered in the propaganda that everyone believes ? Yeah. That's the product of someone living in a bubble... believing the bubble (being created) really defines everything, rather than limiting the view of what's outside the bubble. He's not wrong about much in what he says... but one thing he is wrong about... is how few people he seems to think there are who agree with him... and how many he assumes are bots with minds controlled by the media. I'm guessing he's not writing from rural Texas. That's behavior I see from people living in urban SSRs... who might tend to over-estimate the influence enabled by living in the home of its origin... seeing the world from inside the bubble. So, I'll be glad of his cohort on Sub-stack, agree with them in things I should, and worry less about the balances they perceive in others perception. And, the fact that articles like that one are published, today... where-ever they are... is an indicator of huge progress the author himself likely would not recognize as a product of others engagement in conflicts that have unwound a once more dominant control than is able to be asserted today. as, in fact, it is the nature of the excess necessary to embrace, today, in order to advance an agenda that fails without undertaking such dramatic efforts... that provides a measure of the desperation adopted... in the hope that success will flow from lies, and bigger successes from bigger lies, as required ? But, that always devolves into the "hey, wait a minute" moment... The truth of the "once you've seen it, you can't un-see it" meme... being as essential in people's understanding as the opposite in "emergent" belief slaved in the opposite expectation built on blind faith... rather than clear vision. Captured opinion being controlled... can and will escape... Fascinating to consider that in context of the opposite in its expression as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt while New York is perhaps best seen as a captive city yearning for truth, and to be liberated, far more than Durnsville, Indiana ? Governor Cuomo's opinion of the issues in context might be fun to discuss ? Most amusingly, captured opinion does escape in instances like that, so obvious as to... Remember the Iraqi information minister in "we have them surrounded all over the country" while denying the American's were winning, or anywhere near Baghdad... as an American tank rolled into view and he had to run for it ? I'd say the article... his view... pays too little attention to the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the screen... and how thin the veneer of illusion is...