Is it possible anymore for any major event to occur without conspiracy theories appearing? What kind of future is this leading to where skepticism to the authorities either gets turned up to 100 automatically or any suggestion that there might be a coverup is immediately dismissed since there is a flood of conspiracy theories about everything?
Gotta love all the great journalism pieces that quote random twitter users. Why should I care what these random people think? They're less likely to have decent insights than the usual talking heads--which is saying a lot.
The "establishment" (i.e. media, entertainers, government officials, etc) are all complicit in this since they benefit from ads, attention, and fear. If anything I hold it more against them than the ignorant masses banging on the keyboards since they're supposed to be leaders. Turns out if your leaders have no moral principles and will sell out for their own gain you'll get chaos and disorder.
Gotta love all the great journalism pieces that quote random twitter users. Why should I care what these random people think? They're less likely to have decent insights than the usual talking heads--which is saying a lot.
The "establishment" (i.e. media, entertainers, government officials, etc) are all complicit in this since they benefit from ads, attention, and fear. If anything I hold it more against them than the ignorant masses banging on the keyboards since they're supposed to be leaders. Turns out if your leaders have no moral principles and will sell out for their own gain you'll get chaos and disorder.
No question about this. The powers that be & MSM use and abuse the internet by taking the comments of a few users with questionable motives, often an organized band paid to disseminate a specific point of view, and using them as justification for whatever nonsense they want to force down the throats of everyone else. I could give a rats ass what five hundred people, outta 300 million, think about wearing a Native American costume for Halloween if you aren't the right shade of skin color ... etc. etc., etc. When government, business and the MSM cave to these crackpots, society itself suffers. Which is precisely what they wish. To force societal change down our throats too quickly, without general consensus. That's why someone like Trump wins ... the many out there who have lost their voices to this see someone finally standing up and saying enough already. Anyway ... LOL ... that's my own crackpot, guy on the internet theory.
No question about this. The powers that be & MSM use and abuse the internet by taking the comments of a few users with questionable motives, often an organized band paid to disseminate a specific point of view, and using them as justification for whatever nonsense they want to force down the throats of everyone else. I could give a rats ass what five hundred people, outta 300 million, think about wearing a Native American costume for Halloween if you aren't the right shade of skin color ... etc. etc., etc. When government, business and the MSM cave to these crackpots, society itself suffers. Which is precisely what they wish. To force societal change down our throats too quickly, without general consensus. That's why someone like Trump wins ... the many out there who have lost their voices to this see someone finally standing up and saying enough already. Anyway ... LOL ... that's my own crackpot, guy on the internet theory.
You must have read my tweets as featured in the New York Elitist, the Out of Touch Chronicle, and the Washington Echochamber where they quoted me saying this, because that's basically my belief about how things went down in 2016 too...
Now the question comes down to if there is malice, incompetence, greed, etc as the motivation for this. I think a lot of it actually might be explainable as simple greed and selfishness; media companies love cheap content, and tweets and other content generated by the masses on the internet is free content. There is a whole cottage industry of "reaction" videos on youtube after all. They're basically getting free labor. This explains why this garbage is appearing all over the place. Humans have a weakness for the need of approval, to know what others are doing, and conformity, so this stuff sells. Independent and critical thought might help, but I'm not hopeful.
You must have read my tweets as featured in the New York Elitist, the Out of Touch Chronicle, and the Washington Echochamber where they quoted me saying this, because that's basically my belief about how things went down in 2016 too...
Now the question comes down to if there is malice, incompetence, greed, etc as the motivation for this. I think a lot of it actually might be explainable as simple greed and selfishness; media companies love cheap content, and tweets and other content generated by the masses on the internet is free content. There is a whole cottage industry of "reaction" videos on youtube after all. They're basically getting free labor. This explains why this garbage is appearing all over the place. Humans have a weakness for the need of approval, to know what others are doing, and conformity, so this stuff sells. Independent and critical thought might help, but I'm not hopeful.
You nailed it, more or less! Bots be true ... but as for the rest who are real folks ... before the internet the conspiracy theorists were out there, but considered nut jobs by most and had no platform to spread their 'brilliant insights' beyond a crazy letter to th editor. Now they have dozens of ways to spread ideas, and they find plenty more exceptionally gullible folks out there to grab on and spread the nonsense. In more ways than one, the internet has done far more to unravel society than it has to better it. A handful of fools can be openly quoted as some kind of grand authority on something, and the view of the vast majority is lost in the sauce and considered naive.