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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Real Democracy Means Democracy Of Information
Published: 2022-11-10
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZbfvyXmcfI
Title: Real Democracy Means Democracy Of Information
Published: 2022-11-10
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZbfvyXmcfI
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real democracy means democracy of information notes from the edge of the narrative Matrix the media are lying to us as evidenced by reality never matching with their stories the politicians are lying to us as evidenced by their never delivering on their promises the capitalist class are lying to us as evidenced by their getting richer while workers get poorer I don't want Innovations which improve my shopping2/12
experience or make smartphones a tiny bit better I want Innovations which eliminate world hunger Innovations which make it so people have more free time Innovations which help humans live in harmony with our ecosystem if you're a middle class Westerner technology is already at a point where they're not going to be coming out with any new personal gadgets that make your life significantly better but there's a3/12
massive amount of room for Innovation that can make life much better for people as a whole in terms of societal transformation technology still has the ability to radically improve the quality of human life while in terms of rugged individualism technology is just going to give the wealthiest humans more of the same kinds of toys that are already failing to make them happy the line of technological4/12
progress which is premised on individuals purchasing new inventions for themselves has long passed its point of diminishing returns and now those returns are functionally nil we don't need any more inventions for individual purchase and consumption what we need are collective oriented inventions which change the way humans live on this planet and it won't look like flying cars or fancier personal gadgets it will look like advancements5/12
which change and improve our ability to get food shelter and resources to everyone democracy of the vote without democracy of information is not democracy it doesn't matter if people are able to vote as long as the media owning class are able to manipulate how they vote one person one vote is meaningless if influence and control of information is highly concentrated in an elite few and it6/12
is mass media propaganda internet censorship Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation government secrecy and the war on journalism are all anti-democratic in nature because they restrict the information the citizenry are allowed to access to inform their vote and none of those instruments of narrative control have any influence from or accountability to the rank and file public this means that while everyone gets a vote how those votes are7/12
applied is subjected to aggressive and ubiquitous manipulation by the ruling class the U.S Empire's unprecedented investment in soft power control systems has given rise to the most sophisticated propaganda system that has ever existed human thought is being manipulated at Mass scale like never before if you control how people think you control how they vote most of the propaganda people consume every day is not to manufacture8/12
consent for any one specific agenda but to manufacture consent for the overall political status quo which keeps our wildly dysfunctional systems in place that's what maintains the false two-party puppet show without copious amounts of propaganda it wouldn't be possible to keep two evenly divided political factions impotently playing tug of war and never actually changing anything the entire status quo is built upon the ruling classes ability9/12
to manipulate Minds at Mass scale Republicans are lucky because they get to just openly be Republicans Democrats have to be Republicans in secret Elon musk's endless string of face plants with Twitter is a good illustration of why the rich should not rule the world they're not wise they're not even particularly smart they just figured out how to play our shitty capitalist system which elevates and sociopaths10/12
another good illustration is Mark Zuckerberg firing 11 000 people because of his Dopey metaverse fantasy here's a quote by Rob Den Blaker eleven thousand people lost their jobs because the world's biggest dork predicted we'd want to put on VR headsets and attend work meetings as floating cartoon characters I love how mainstream newspapers are like let's give regular columns to multiple fire-breathing extremist warmongers because it's important11/12
to make sure we're getting that key fire-breathing extremist warmonger perspective they're like how are we supposed to get the full warmongering extremist perspective from just Josh Rogan and Jennifer Rubin add Max boot for extra diversity humanity is abandoning religion as we discover that it's all just a bunch of unhelpful and unevidenced made-up beliefs one day Humanity will in the same way and for the same reasons