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?
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.
We're on the same page. The media in general has deteriorated to the point that they no longer even know what 'news' is. Nor do they invest the resources to seek it out. Like you said, it's easier just to quote Joe Schmo in Bumfuck, Wisc. And if you don't follow their particular brand of lunacy, they try to show you as the one outside the mainstream, when the reverse is actually closer IMHO to the truth.
So you end up with real nuts ... far right, far left ... losing it and going on rampages. Then you blame someone outside the bogus consensus as the problem, when in reality, it is you ... MSM ... who spread this hate to those on either side not mentally capable of coping without lashing out.
We're on the same page. The media in general has deteriorated to the point that they no longer even know what 'news' is. Nor do they invest the resources to seek it out. Like you said, it's easier just to quote Joe Schmo in Bumfuck, Wisc. And if you don't follow their particular brand of lunacy, they try to show you as the one outside the mainstream, when the reverse is actually closer IMHO to the truth.
So you end up with real nuts ... far right, far left ... losing it and going on rampages. Then you blame someone outside the bogus consensus as the problem, when in reality, it is you ... MSM ... who spread this hate to those on either side not mentally capable of coping without lashing out.
Yup, be the first to break the story. Get the first tweet that says something. Never mind if the news is false. Never mind what impact this has on societal cohesion. Never mind the consequences. Place the biggest flashes, loudest noises, most obnoxious and divisive talking heads on the air. We got the most views and ad dollars!
Greed has always been a part of human nature, and I don't even think there is more of it today. But there used to be a lot stronger checks in place and a stronger sense of ethics and pride in the quality of work. If you lived in a small town of 10,000 in middle America in the 1950s, you wouldn't pull this kind of behavior--not because people weren't greedy back then, but because your reputation was local, and you would be vilified by those around you.
Large cities and global options make it easy to jet away after plundering and causing chaos: your reputation is no longer at stake. Humans don't scale well to the modern world.
Yup, be the first to break the story. Get the first tweet that says something. Never mind if the news is false. Never mind what impact this has on societal cohesion. Never mind the consequences. Place the biggest flashes, loudest noises, most obnoxious and divisive talking heads on the air. We got the most views and ad dollars!
Greed has always been a part of human nature, and I don't even think there is more of it today. But there used to be a lot stronger checks in place and a stronger sense of ethics and pride in the quality of work. If you lived in a small town of 10,000 in middle America in the 1950s, you wouldn't pull this kind of behavior--not because people weren't greedy back then, but because your reputation was local, and you would be vilified by those around you.
Large cities and global options make it easy to jet away after plundering and causing chaos: your reputation is no longer at stake. Humans don't scale well to the modern world.
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.