Flood information pathways to the point of overflowing and lies become truth, and truth becomes obscured. Then add a dash of ultra-competitiveness and you end up with polarization. Once polarized incite anger, for a person in an enraged state becomes single minded, focused, and lacks perspective. Now you have a mailable population, blind and irreverent.
Sound or look familiar? A brief glance at modern history and we see this recipe deployed over and over again. (Hitler, Stalin, Hussein, Assad – Rohingya and Uyghur people) Humanity has shown we fail at learning from our past. (Refusing to take lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic an appropriately applying them to Covid-19) For this recipe is unfurled with variable success frequently. Then every few hundred or so years it is disseminated with catastrophic results. WWII and the gas chambers being the most notable amongst westerners.
We currently exist in the Information Age. Each individual posses the power to search for and decipher information, yet this recipe is playing out in our midst again. Even award winning novels “1984”, “A Brave New World”, and more recently “The Hunger Games” appear to lack the impact necessary to curtail the cycle, again.
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