Over the past several weeks, I have focused on the quasi “post-mortem dump” of the so-called media‘s election coverage in the United States. I no longer usually pay much attention to the junk that has increasingly become known as “mainstream media” — I prefer to focus more on the distinction between “rational media and “irrational media” (see e.g. “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ] ).
Just a few day ago, I wrote a longish essay that spans media trends over the past half millennium (since about the time of Gutenberg’s printing press — see “Taking words out of context and thereby thinking outside of the box” [ https://contextual.news.blog/2024/12/05/taking-words-out-of-context-and-thereby-thinking-outside-of-the-box ] ). In my long and winding blathering I also touched upon a concept which became quite popular during the Enlightenment: “Natural Law”.
In the past few days of reflecting upon those reflections, I am now struck (yet again, since I have noted this before [at least privately] ) by an oversight in both natural sciences and social sciences over the past few centuries (i.e. since the Enlightenment): there is no longer widespread publishing and communication about scientific discoveries.
Increasingly, scientists do their scientific work (and thereby produce “science“) behind closed doors. Whether in a lab in Wuhan, China or in a video studio in New York, Hollywood, Austin or indeed anywhere in America there are people studying anything and everything from the most itty bitty microscopic tidbit to a full-blown celebrity impression, and especially inside of cyberspace headquarters, top-notch geeks sit around conference tables and study what kinds of impact each and every pixel on their platforms will have on each and every message blurted out through each and every application, advertisement and whatnot more.
All of this manipulation and manipulative propaganda scheming is (of course) TOP SECRET. The algorithms are TOP SECRET. The money is TOP SECRET. The deals are TOP SECRET. Pretty much everything is TOP SECRET.
One thing, that is NOT a secret is a very well-known fact on Wall Street: this is a very big deal, and this is very BIG BUSINESS. Billions of suckers are being duped every day, and they are even standing in line waiting to pay an entrance fee to the REALLY BIG SHOW.
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