The idiots who imagine they have power and are running the world, have this position about the news.
They believe that by owning 'the' agenda, they will own and control sufficient of the population to win elections 'naturally' - that is, without placing a thumb down on the scales (which is the actual genesis of the word 'algorithm' as you know).
This stand on things proceeds from a different matter -, that of 'the news.' And if they are ahead of the news curve, being in place and in position as the news breaks or also, on top of the subject matter of 'the news' then everyone will see them as 'on subject.'
I am basically very conservative and quite old-fashioned at heart... The trouble I guess, lies in the precise meaning of the world 'old.' How old, exactly? LOL |
None of this is particularly new, Alcibiades was behind clandestine propaganda in Athens a couple of thousand years ago and some.
What is new is the advances in technology that human beings possess today, especially communications technology.
Behind the current gale that is blowing for the adoption of AI just about everywhere and for just about everything, is the concept that by using procedural generated content, and having AI then make out that this is simply the currency of what the public is thinking about and believing, politicians can completely take over control of 'the agenda' well before there even is an agenda at all - by pretending that some particular thing is what the people want and believe because after all, the AI is reflecting it (except the 'it' was all along merely procedural generated content; largely internet content and then secondarily but still importantly, legacy styles of news media content as well.
But you simply cannot believe that any of what you see in today's media is what is really going on in the world, now can you...?
Surely not.
Let me add too, another obvious 'benefit' of AI and procedural generated content, is the fact that you do not need to pay real live human beings!
This is a dream - which is of course a complete lunatic fantasy - of modern-day Emperors dressed in their beautiful garments...
Has clothes. |
Meanwhile, you have an agenda.
You have an agenda of your own.
And this is a list of all the things you need and all the things you want and want to do and to achieve.
If you are as to any doubt at all over what I am saying, then make a list of the things on your personal agenda, and run through the pages of any major masthead newspaper any day of the week and see how many times your agenda items make it to any of the pages.
You might at first thought, say to yourself that hey well, what you personally want are only modest or even small matters, confined to one individual and their private life and living.
But that will not prove to be true as soon as you start to compile your list.
From the moments that you have begun to compile your list, that is when you will start to 'see' real news, and you will find it in all the strangest places but not anywhere in the standard media.
'A Turner (a painting), a perfect (what is that?) canary diamond, a Lear jet, world peace, the best of everything.'
When your brain mulls these propositions of Darien Taylor in the movie Wall Street, it will automatically look at each one of them and sooner or later realize that there is a euphony to the sentence structure itself, a certain cadence - and that if you changed things around the whole effect will change.
Having things is not the same as possessing poetry in your soul.
Many billionaires have a lot of things are they are nothing.
Socrates explained who the most happy individual is.
The dead are not happy.
Some people are not even dead; they are nothing.
But as for the smart ones out there, learn what it is to live first and to be alive.
I will try to stop holding back, because I have been doing that.
Just a little.
You know, fencing around the edges of things.