The deeper I get into these questions, the less interested I become in identifying a single person, institution, or hidden hand behind them. The more interesting thing, to me, is the machinery itself: the stories we inherit, the images we absorb, the things we are repeatedly shown, and the things that quietly disappear outside the frame. Somewhere in all of that is the question of how much of what we call our own perception has actually been shaped for us.
Tag: mass media
You gave them permission, were unaware of what you were doing, and had no idea why you did it in the first place. Welcome to the modern era of deception.
In 2021, in order to discern any useful, truthful information, one needs to be critical of nearly every source, but can safely ignore the faces and falsities of well-paid experts and drama pushers you’d see regularly, daily in mass media. They are lying with reckless abandon, so no matter what is being presented, know it isn’t likely to be true.