this image gives you everything... but at what cost
this image gives you everything... but at what cost
neckwattle posted:i cant see the image. must be secret or something
slipdisco posted:
cue another person telling me that MGS2 was ahead of its time
ialdabaoth posted:that's just normal (past, present) information warfare with additional cell phones
Philip Mirowski:
Once the neoliberal image of the market as both means of conveyance and validation of ideas took hold, then it consequently shaped and informed changes in the very means and conduct of argumentation in general. Befuddlement became an active political strategy very different from the top-down broadcast model of early 20th century 'propaganda'. The recent fondness for Orwell's 1984 turns out to be another red herring. Rather, these days, disinformation is predicated upon the creation of a fog of confusion and disillusion, and less directly promoted by straightforward media manipulation (the bugaboo of the nostalgic left) than the harvesting through social media of the inchoate folderol of the general populace, subsequently feeding it back to the massed through social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and new model 'journalism'. Dissimulation has been channeled to become its own special 'spontaneous disorder'.
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The aim is not nihilism for the hell of it, but rather, represents the pursuit of two objectives dear to the NTC (Neoliberal Thought Collective): 1) The transformation of the endless befuddlement of the masses into a lucrative source of recurrent profit; and simultaneously, 2) the rendering of the populace more docile in the face of neoliberal takeover of the government.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/papers/Mirowski-Hell-is-Truth-Seen-Too-Late.pdf
wasted posted:Philip Mirowski:
i guess itis a departure from early 20th c propaganda but the miasma of informational confusion feels like it always been present in my lifetime / time of political awareness which does predate the socially metastasized internet
e: hell,
the issue of having no one to trust and the feedback loop of willful ignorance + mass media repetition was a big obstacle in the aftermath of 911 and the subsequent global war for example
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cars posted:I nominate myself for Meme Control Officer, Meme Processing Center, Counter-Meme Processing Center, and WORLD.
i'll supply the inchoate folderol