<nettime> Bullshit as emergent phenomenon (Re: Julia Ebner: Stop the online conspiracy theorists before they break democracy (Guardian))

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

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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