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Rikard's avatar

I imagine it went like this:

With the internet becoming public, data on how information/reaction-patterns were collected and collated, culminating in the project that gave birth to Facebook (the initial project was an intelligence agency one after all).

But somewhen around 2010-215 "they" realised something they missed in the initial planning.

If left alone, the patterns forming and dissolving are spontaneous, but clustered around nodes sending information out: anyone with a large enough audience will impact the pattern and set up reverberations throughout it all.

If you imagine a still pond with people dropping stones in it all the time and the waves interacting and intersecting, that's a good image of the process.

Now, in the years mentioned "they" suddenly realised that there are only two way to actually control the wave-patterns:

Either restrict access to only vetted sources (basically how radio and TV was set up in most european nations), an impossibility for many reasons - or:

Try to control the rythm and size of the stones dropped (i.e. "trusted news initiatices", bluechecks, factcheckers, et c, under agency control/working together).

What they did was the worst possible choice: both of the above, plus introducing baffles into the pond, limiting the motion and reach of the waves.

This is bad no matter how you look at it for a very simple reason: the patterns you depend upon for analysis in order to pre-empt action and movement you don't want are no longer reliable, thanks to your own meddling.

Meaning that now, after having ocllated all the data on how various spread-out individuals managed to counter the signal about "Covid is the killer" and "mRNA-vaccines are safe and efficient", they are in a panic.

They will inenvitably make the same mistake again: more control, more directed messaging meaning they continue to create error-sources which means they will act on erroneous information all the time, becoming more and more frantic in their flailing efforts to control.

I guess none of them built dams in streams as children: you don't control, dam up and fight the force. You guide it, gently and discreetly and with a minimum of effort so it runs where you want it and enables you to exploit its power.

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Sophia's avatar

It seems that the Gallup poll was created to be skewed from the start as "none" was not included among the options.

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