This wasn't about more information, but rather the glut of disinformation that hogs media bandwidth like so many empty calories. In this way, FOX networks have successfully redefined the meaning of the word "news."
The article points out that freedom of information levels the playing field, but the digital divide guarantees that only about 30% of the general public has reliable access to and utilizes the internet as a stable source of information.
Laws exist to prevent abuse of our other Constitutional rights, but where is the will to prosecute propagation of outright lies? What public affairs director will stand up to their corporate overlords and expose the rot?
Disinformation is a political strategy that prefers to pit beliefs against each other rather than toe the line of responsible governance.
[funny thing, the word verification I must type to post this now is "chump"]
PS: It doesn't help his case that he insists upon using esoteric terminology like "agnotological." Talk about obfuscation! Does it really help to prop up his credibility? Too bad he can't just call it bull-shit.
"The study of culturally constructed ignorance" sounds like a valuable strain of "social construction of reality" seeking to delineate between the actual and assumed realms. Perhaps our religious selves are little more than our ignorant selves? Are belief systems really necessary to function in a world of unknown variables as well as the knowable? While Religion offers comfort amid uncertainty, Politics often appears to seek compliance by blurring these two spheres in reductionist fashion. We are always at jeopardy when policy is the product of both what is real and what is imagined to be so, yet to create effective change management must also inspire.
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This wasn't about more information, but rather the glut of disinformation that hogs media bandwidth like so many empty calories. In this way, FOX networks have successfully redefined the meaning of the word "news."
The article points out that freedom of information levels the playing field, but the digital divide guarantees that only about 30% of the general public has reliable access to and utilizes the internet as a stable source of information.
Laws exist to prevent abuse of our other Constitutional rights, but where is the will to prosecute propagation of outright lies? What public affairs director will stand up to their corporate overlords and expose the rot?
Disinformation is a political strategy that prefers to pit beliefs against each other rather than toe the line of responsible governance.
[funny thing, the word verification I must type to post this now is "chump"]
PS: It doesn't help his case that he insists upon using esoteric terminology like "agnotological." Talk about obfuscation! Does it really help to prop up his credibility? Too bad he can't just call it bull-shit.
"The study of culturally constructed ignorance" sounds like a valuable strain of "social construction of reality" seeking to delineate between the actual and assumed realms. Perhaps our religious selves are little more than our ignorant selves? Are belief systems really necessary to function in a world of unknown variables as well as the knowable? While Religion offers comfort amid uncertainty, Politics often appears to seek compliance by blurring these two spheres in reductionist fashion. We are always at jeopardy when policy is the product of both what is real and what is imagined to be so, yet to create effective change management must also inspire.
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