Civil society is devolving because the proponents and the opponents have been segregated into echo chambers.

Peter Baker be nailin' my point.

Just in case what you were missing tonight was a discrete mathematically inspired proof for the existence of negative propaganda.

Where did we … as a society … land on subliminal messages … you know … priming the minds of the masses to encourage a particular desired action or belief without the masses ever being aware?

And I mean … what are the chances … am I right?

Queue 120 pages of assumptions that every cause has merit and the information is always correct.

The bourgeoisie stood in fear of the common people … then we learned how to mold their minds to throw their strength in the desired direction … nice sales pitch.

The fly in the ointment … "code of ethics."

Opening this up to every digitally connected household utterly breaks the presumed ability to monitor and self-police information flows.

.@manton did you tinker or did my tinkering catch up? All of a sudden Twitter's card crawler is doing its job.

So Representative Meeks is on point as far as where to go from here (which is basically doing the work we should have been doing since the day someone meant to give a f$&k took office knowing a deal had been made to withdraw from Afghanistan).

Quick … someone give me a better example of white privilege than "the great resignation."

Someone made bat-mistake.

How to look a fool by entirely missing the point being expressed and making the most asinine of assumptions about someone who's actual ideology is fully available for skimming.

P.S. I also play bass @doktor7

The Voynich Manuscript be looking at me like "I thought you were gonna be the one to crack my code, you haven't even cracked my spine." #ADHD

274 days into my Micro.blog account … zero followers … such a weird relationship I have going with your platform @manton

Gonna try and shake out more of the thoughts that raced through my skull as I was re-reading Bernays. Putting together an all-in -one in Ulysses.

Fingers-crossed that once full FDA approval comes through insurance companies start denying coverage for COVID treatment to the unvaccinated by choice (seeing as educational outreach is nowhere on the horizon).

There is no means of human communication which may not also be a means of deliberate propaganda, because propaganda is simply the establishing of reciprocal understanding between an individual and a group.

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Chapter XI: The Mechanics of Propaganda

Twittersphere losing a lot of my respect today … see the g0dd@mn forest … and remember to reject the XORing of sh$t that is not mutually exclusive. (The rotten f$&king attitude goes away when my gut stops doing a better job than US Intelligence at predictive sh$tshowery).

In art as in politics the minority rules, but it can rule only by going out to meet the public on its own ground, by understanding the anatomy of public opinion and utilizing it.

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Chapter X: Art and Science

How to vent about the absolute absolution being touted by an administration over the blown withdrawal leaving countless lives (the ones assisting our troops in the thick of it knowing their lives would be forfeit should they ever be discovered by the Taliban) to be slaughtered (rather than having their evacuation prioritized before ceding transportational control to their executioners):

How to amplify said venting via insertion into a thread blaming Trump for freeing Taliban prisoners:

How to miss the point entirely, believing the decision to withdraw (rather than the manner in which it was carried out) to be the picked bone:

How to kindly point out someone's numb nut rebuttal while implying further engagement is of no interest:

How to dig further into your numb nut argument, still missing the point entirely, while exposing yourself as a douche:

How to blatantly connect the dots for some douche whose repeated failure at grasping argumental context has exposed him as not worth the time to catch the f$&k up on the whole sh$t show of an exchange he doesn't have the good sense to realize he is losing: