"Trans activists got about 45 people to stand on the sidewalk for 45 minutes in front of the Netflix offices and it was front page news in every major newspaper across the country?"
And tens of millions of people around the world are protesting for their freedoms, right now, and the media is silent.
Toby, a decade ago I began to see what you see. I ultimately wrote about it as The Spectacle of Reality. https://edbrenegar.com/the-spectacle-of-the-real/. This strategy / tactic ... ur ... simulation of politics is evolving very rapidly. What they cannot do is hide from it.
I recommend digging into the writings of Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle and Comments on The Society of the Spectacle, Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, Daniel Boorstin's The Image, Mario Vargas Llosa's Notes on The Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society, and Marshall McLuhan, who saw this coming before anyone, The Medium is the Message.
--Blurring the line between fantasy and reality, computer-generated influencers are hugely popular with teenagers and will yield increasing soft power as interest in the #metaverse grows
--brands enjoy the safety of associating with (virtual) influencers who have a pre-defined backstory and future
--businesses may prefer the ability to control everything.
--businesses . . . looking to "innovation and a new world order".
I am thinking of how corporations and governments can use technology to DIRECTLY and more effectively brainwash our kids, and at a younger age
That was a fun article Toby. Fun and depressing at the same time.
What's happened is now you can pick your favorite mouthpiece and shop for articles that support your jihad. I'd never use NYT for anything but bird cage liner, and have had some heated disagreements with family who think it's gospel. They by contrast think I'm a Neanderthal, who forages in the bushes for what I consume.
Maybe the conversations should not be on "news items" but a level up: why do you trust whom you trust? How do you background check your news source?
Brilliant piece, man. Thanks. Interesting that some events break out of the control grid. It is easy to keep news unfavorable to the oligarchy out of the news cycle if you own the media, but certain events, the fall of Kabul, for example, overwhelm the control system. Makes me wonder whether there are other ways of overwhelm the control system.
Cindy Sheehan was a slightly different, but similar, example.
I still recall how she ended up, standing alone on a street corner with her campaign sign, having obviously made the mistake of believing she was involved with something real.
The Kamalydia Kids ā another example in the same genre.
Itās all fake, has been for decades. And this trajectory was as inevitable as the capture of our āgovernmentā by undemocratic forces. In the absence of a solid moral foundation among the citizens, the ruthless and vicious classes will thrust their way to the top. And the āman in the streetā, stupefied by bread and circuses or beer and football as the case may be, stood by and let it happen.
Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. Bad times create strong men, and so the cycle goes.
We are seeing the consequences of a very, very weak couple of generations.
Thanks again Toby, I'm in NZ and this morning the arranged news was celebrating that today the v'd can get a v 'passport to freedom'. On the same day a piece of the campaign to extend the v's to children ran the line 'CV19 in the top 10 of child killers' https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/455873/us-expert-start-testing-nz-classrooms-for-covid-19 She's from John Hopkins University, and I'm thinking this is yet another marketing campaign.. but how can I prove it?
"Trans activists got about 45 people to stand on the sidewalk for 45 minutes in front of the Netflix offices and it was front page news in every major newspaper across the country?"
And tens of millions of people around the world are protesting for their freedoms, right now, and the media is silent.
Toby, a decade ago I began to see what you see. I ultimately wrote about it as The Spectacle of Reality. https://edbrenegar.com/the-spectacle-of-the-real/. This strategy / tactic ... ur ... simulation of politics is evolving very rapidly. What they cannot do is hide from it.
I recommend digging into the writings of Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle and Comments on The Society of the Spectacle, Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, Daniel Boorstin's The Image, Mario Vargas Llosa's Notes on The Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society, and Marshall McLuhan, who saw this coming before anyone, The Medium is the Message.
Awesome post. I recommend Sharyl Attkisson, one of the few actual journalists left
https://youtu.be/-bYAQ-ZZtEU (can't believe this is allowed on YouTube still)
https://sharylattkisson.com/2016/07/top-10-astroturfers/ Dorito and Gorski
"Corporations know that stories are a powerful way to influence people."
Which is exactly why we need to be focusing on counter-stories. Stories that tell the abhorrent truth about the vaxxines and the evil behind them.
This is how The Matrix is built. One. Fake. Story. At. A. Time.
Thanks MainSteamNews, Big Corp, Big Govt for creating this fake world. Not!
I am opting out and no longer complying with your fake actors demands. I am trusting my own intuition and divine connection from now on for my truth.
I just read two articles that jolted me awake reminding me of this post: The first was . . .
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-kids-are-definitely-not-alright/
That led me to . . .
https://news.yahoo.com/world-order-asias-virtual-influencers-021414890.html
A few notes:
--Blurring the line between fantasy and reality, computer-generated influencers are hugely popular with teenagers and will yield increasing soft power as interest in the #metaverse grows
--brands enjoy the safety of associating with (virtual) influencers who have a pre-defined backstory and future
--businesses may prefer the ability to control everything.
--businesses . . . looking to "innovation and a new world order".
I am thinking of how corporations and governments can use technology to DIRECTLY and more effectively brainwash our kids, and at a younger age
That was a fun article Toby. Fun and depressing at the same time.
What's happened is now you can pick your favorite mouthpiece and shop for articles that support your jihad. I'd never use NYT for anything but bird cage liner, and have had some heated disagreements with family who think it's gospel. They by contrast think I'm a Neanderthal, who forages in the bushes for what I consume.
Maybe the conversations should not be on "news items" but a level up: why do you trust whom you trust? How do you background check your news source?
Always a pleasure reading your opinions.
Brilliant piece, man. Thanks. Interesting that some events break out of the control grid. It is easy to keep news unfavorable to the oligarchy out of the news cycle if you own the media, but certain events, the fall of Kabul, for example, overwhelm the control system. Makes me wonder whether there are other ways of overwhelm the control system.
Love your work!
Well said!
One might say that the real treasure was the oppositional defiant disordereds we met along the way.
Cindy Sheehan was a slightly different, but similar, example.
I still recall how she ended up, standing alone on a street corner with her campaign sign, having obviously made the mistake of believing she was involved with something real.
The Kamalydia Kids ā another example in the same genre.
Itās all fake, has been for decades. And this trajectory was as inevitable as the capture of our āgovernmentā by undemocratic forces. In the absence of a solid moral foundation among the citizens, the ruthless and vicious classes will thrust their way to the top. And the āman in the streetā, stupefied by bread and circuses or beer and football as the case may be, stood by and let it happen.
Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create bad times. Bad times create strong men, and so the cycle goes.
We are seeing the consequences of a very, very weak couple of generations.
Show her proper respect by using her credentials:
Prof Dr. Greta Thunberg MBA MD JD MPH PhD
Now I know why Greta Thunberg never got into my brain. I always felt something suspicious about her speeches.
Thanks again Toby, I'm in NZ and this morning the arranged news was celebrating that today the v'd can get a v 'passport to freedom'. On the same day a piece of the campaign to extend the v's to children ran the line 'CV19 in the top 10 of child killers' https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/455873/us-expert-start-testing-nz-classrooms-for-covid-19 She's from John Hopkins University, and I'm thinking this is yet another marketing campaign.. but how can I prove it?