Coming Escalations in the Propaganda War

The Society of Control is Coming for America!

This TED Talk is labelled "The Battle Against Propaganda".  In actuality, it represents an Escalation in the Government's Propaganda War Against the American People.

From a recent “Philosophize This” podcast:

We typically think that information is something that’s liberating. You know, “if only people had the information, then they’d be able to make decisions that were better for them and their families”. But so often, what happens in the Information Age is that whoever dominates the flows of information, gets to dominate the limited worldview of the people that they’re reaching. So when you’re given information in one of these modern control societies to Deleuze, it’s obviously not about transmitting knowledge. It’s most of the time hardly even verified. So what this information becomes is a method of mass communicating the meanings, norms, and directives of the day that people are supposed to internalize and believe in, and then go throughout their lives.

Information is like a police communication, he says. When you watch a news story or a political debate or whatever it is. This is not some neutral thing that’s happening, or just “take this information for what it’s worth guys, here it is”. No, it’s a prescription of the meaning of the events that are are going on. Information in a control society he says, is both a snapshot and a command at the exact same time. It carries with it an implicit order that this is the view that polite Society is going to believe in next. 

And it’s this, combined with the other ways, that people are turned into bits of that information and then manipulated. Information turns out to be a massively effective way of controlling people’s behavior. Turns out, it’s also very easy to convince people that they have a different sort of way of looking at things, a diverse perspective, even though they’re just funneled into the same algorithmic channels that so many other people are given their information in. It’s “fake difference” to Deleuze.dd