The most intelligent and necessary article I've read this week, maybe this month. Sadly, conspiracy theories will get more mileage than your research into propaganda.
The greatest danger to activists exposing real conspiracies is those making money selling false conspiracies.
In the microcosm, I'll be happy when Alex Jones is dead. All the times he's been right is just lube for his anal lies - if he didn't tell the truth sometimes, his fucking lies would hurt us. Glenn Greenwald further muddied the waters by giving him respectability. It was sellout, and diminished his admirable journalism e.g., Julian Assange.
Fox and Tucker were perfectly self-serving together but I've come to appreciate the latter as a standalone. No matter his motivations, sometimes overreaching, and refusal to ask his guests tough questions, he's opened up a discussion in places needing light. Except for the Trump interview, a repetitive bore of narcissism I couldn't finish, I found some value in all of the others, even Andrew Tate. Once upon a time I couldn't have imagined it, but the world needs flawed Tucker now.
Thanks for introducing me to the definition "steelmanning'.
Thanks, that's quite the complement! In brief, here's a few thoughts:
M.R.X. Dentith, who I cite in this piece, has written about the cost/benefit of conspiracy theories. While there are several costs, outweighing them is the importance of exposing actual and impactful conspiracies. The same logic can be applied to Tucker Carlson: His preposterous assertions are outweighed by discussions he's generated of scandals and corruption rampant in society and the world. Of course, anti-conspiracists and the Censorship Industrial Complex see things in the exact opposite way. But, one point I was making is that the Establishment has censored talk of what turned out to be true conspiracies, and there shouldn't be censorship in the first place due to the philosophy of why we have a 1st Amendment.
I got labelled as a conspiracy theorist by the leader of the opposition in my country. Of course, she was deliberate pretending that she didn't know of the corruption I'd reported, or that Parliament had ruled in my favour (before the cover-up began). They own the Media. They get to rewrite history.
That's unfortunate, but unfortunately, that's how consensus-driven, conformists operate. The first time I was called a conspiracy theorist to my face was a shock to me because I'd never been called one before. I was literally talking about an empirically verifiable phenomenon, which inherently raised disturbing questions and conclusions, and BAM: "So you're a conspiracy theorist." That one instance set me on my current path. I started investigating the scholarship, and I found a key article by Hustings and Orr (2007) "Dangerous Machinery." It's worth checking out.
Unfortunately, all options behind paywalls. Political activism reduced me to zero income before the 19 to 1 exchange rate would be considered. Thanks for trying.
Encountering 100% stupidity, wherein logic matters not, creates an epiphany aftershock. I still struggle with the status quo between myself and the 'I-Don't Want-To Know'.
The most intelligent and necessary article I've read this week, maybe this month. Sadly, conspiracy theories will get more mileage than your research into propaganda.
The greatest danger to activists exposing real conspiracies is those making money selling false conspiracies.
In the microcosm, I'll be happy when Alex Jones is dead. All the times he's been right is just lube for his anal lies - if he didn't tell the truth sometimes, his fucking lies would hurt us. Glenn Greenwald further muddied the waters by giving him respectability. It was sellout, and diminished his admirable journalism e.g., Julian Assange.
Fox and Tucker were perfectly self-serving together but I've come to appreciate the latter as a standalone. No matter his motivations, sometimes overreaching, and refusal to ask his guests tough questions, he's opened up a discussion in places needing light. Except for the Trump interview, a repetitive bore of narcissism I couldn't finish, I found some value in all of the others, even Andrew Tate. Once upon a time I couldn't have imagined it, but the world needs flawed Tucker now.
Thanks for introducing me to the definition "steelmanning'.
Thanks, that's quite the complement! In brief, here's a few thoughts:
M.R.X. Dentith, who I cite in this piece, has written about the cost/benefit of conspiracy theories. While there are several costs, outweighing them is the importance of exposing actual and impactful conspiracies. The same logic can be applied to Tucker Carlson: His preposterous assertions are outweighed by discussions he's generated of scandals and corruption rampant in society and the world. Of course, anti-conspiracists and the Censorship Industrial Complex see things in the exact opposite way. But, one point I was making is that the Establishment has censored talk of what turned out to be true conspiracies, and there shouldn't be censorship in the first place due to the philosophy of why we have a 1st Amendment.
I got labelled as a conspiracy theorist by the leader of the opposition in my country. Of course, she was deliberate pretending that she didn't know of the corruption I'd reported, or that Parliament had ruled in my favour (before the cover-up began). They own the Media. They get to rewrite history.
That's unfortunate, but unfortunately, that's how consensus-driven, conformists operate. The first time I was called a conspiracy theorist to my face was a shock to me because I'd never been called one before. I was literally talking about an empirically verifiable phenomenon, which inherently raised disturbing questions and conclusions, and BAM: "So you're a conspiracy theorist." That one instance set me on my current path. I started investigating the scholarship, and I found a key article by Hustings and Orr (2007) "Dangerous Machinery." It's worth checking out.
I spent 20 fruitless minutes searching for 'Dangerous Machinery'.
Did you try searching for Hustings and Orr (2007) Dangerous Machinery, like so? https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Hustings+and+Orr+%282007%29+Dangerous+Machinery&btnG=
Unfortunately, all options behind paywalls. Political activism reduced me to zero income before the 19 to 1 exchange rate would be considered. Thanks for trying.
Encountering 100% stupidity, wherein logic matters not, creates an epiphany aftershock. I still struggle with the status quo between myself and the 'I-Don't Want-To Know'.