ONE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT
ONE HUNDRED SIXTY EIGHT
That's the number of hours in a week. That's the number of hours every media "channel" or source has to fill, 52 times a year. Do the arithmetic: 8700+ hrs per year. Times the apparently COUNTLESS "channels" available--certainly in their tens of thousands, and you have The Programmer's Dilemma.
And NO DEAD AIR! There's gotta be something "on" them at all times. The Eyes have it.
So we see why anything anybody offers to fill that ravening maw of time, for public consumption, is swiftly and uncritically snatched up, circulated, and promulgated, no matter its veracity, or credibility, or verifiability.
We maqy therefore also see why it has become increasingly difficult to rebut and refute unfounded or spurious allegations, when they proliferate and are promoted as valuablecommodities.
And we may also see why "mediated reality" is the only "reality" we know, anymore, and it is fractured into a billion pieces, each carefully directed at what the particular "being" your traceable behavior indicates you to be will believe.
I call it "The Theory of Social Atomization," which describes social manipulation at levels we are customarily NOT comfortable talking about. To understand it requires abandoning the ("learned") skepticism of subliminal suggestibility--the "I Can't Be Hypnotized" syndrome.
For more than 100 years, the "best & brrightest minds in in individual and group psychology have been employed at what J. Ellul (1964), the French sociologist, called "the Formation of Men's Attitudes."
My patience with such arcana wanes with the advancing dark. I wanna come back to this later. My nightly dram of swingle malt Scotch beckons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda:_The_Formation_of_Men%27s_Attitudes
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