| Morlock Elloi on Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:00:56 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian)) |
Read this over and over: > it will be > necessary to regulate against harmful infrastructures and malicious > behaviors. As early adopters of new technologies, extremists will"harmful", "malicious" and "extremists" will be detected by objective mass spectrometry in certified labs.
It used to be that non-governmental actors were screaming at governments "YOU ARE LYING!". Now governments are screaming at them "YOU ARE LYING!". This means that things are getting better, as propaganda capacities are more evenly distributed.
News have always been mostly fake, especially from reputable outlets. They just don't like competition. Social and economic theories have always be mostly false, particularly when excremented by tenured staff. But there were some token facts. The end game will likely be 100% of lying, without bothering with sporadic truth. Lying is cheaper. Like firemen in Fahrenheit 451, "news" will become to mean a firehose of bs to which we meekly subject to demonstrate compliance. What word shall we use for facts?
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