Crisis of Misinformation

Crisis of Misinformation
(Commentary to the entanglements within mis-identity)

There are facets to governance that are serving to hold the balance points - and there are usurpations or corruptions of governance that operate to distort and coerce outcomes - so as to perpetuate an 'out of balance' as if it were order - ie: power elitism.
Just using the term government may fog the issue. The legitimate process of serving the reintegration of a true balance is not one of stripping away all remaining checks to rapacious plunder...
People can and do elect to operate collectively as well as individually - whether that be in corporate cartels or trade unions and social movements of any kind. Of course the collective soon becomes prey to 'leaders', subversions, infiltrations, dilutions and corruptions, but that is not to deny that there WAS a collective alignment or movement for change.
Individualism is generally an elitist aspiration - because only those with some sense of power in their lives or indeed power in Life - will stand outside the inherited or dictated narratives of power.
Conditioning has more than a surface mentality - such as the misinformation and propaganda reflect, it has deep subconscious and unconscious core that all propaganda seeks to trigger and hook into.
The mind - as it is generally equated with the thinking of the persona - is simply a personal propaganda in attempt to defend against core fears and negative beliefs.
The overwhelming flood of misinformation brings the sense of sickness and insanity of not being able to trust ANY thinking whatsoever. While this is a wretched emotional state - it is exactly the basis of awakening a deep desire for truth - for something - ANYTHING - True! The awakening FROM mentalism to a heartfelt Life-Connected integrity of relationship and communication is the key shift from which all else will in time follow - because once one is sickened by lies and moves from investing in them - one is back in the realm of a receptivity to Life - as it is Moving - and not entirely entangled within narratives of self-serving-vanity.
Clinging to the investment in propaganda may take to side of being against what seems a dangerous and even evil 'individualism' - or against a dangerous and evil collectivism - but the truth that I feel to share here - is that we are given a will - a receptivity and expressive manifestation of what is received - in order to feel the situation for ourselves and discern how define ourselves in relation to it according to our true desire.
This is very different from asserting power over others - often by undermining it in others and inducing them to give it away to a predetermined agenda. There is no relationship of communication in that case - only deceit and coercion - in which a captive conformity is presented.
True individualism is based in an indivisibility that one has to extend, in order to receive - and recognize. Accepting placeholders as substitutes for the real thing is the pattern of using the FORM of Life as a way of denying (and gaining power over) Life. Readers here are likely aware of this as financial scams but perhaps less so in terms of the currency of ideas - as if ideas were separate conceptual things rather than inter and intra relational and vibrational communication.
Reading the movement or energy of the moment at hand has largely been subordinated to command and control (fear and power agenda). It is that which operates the negative version of the 'invisible hand'. Not the energetic movement Itself. The ideas through which we identify and relate are determining the perception-experience we then appreciate - or suffer.

Praetor:

As time goes on. The deception will increase. Alt-news is now speculating and discussing the use of green screens on the MSM channels and how this will effect perception of events. Just watch a 'good' sci-fi movie and amaze at how real it appears, and knowing all the time its not real. As time goes on. The deception will increase, and the truth will be very hard to discern!!!

To Praetor:
All the more inducement to develop discernment in place of giving trust to ANY forms. For any form of idea or appearance can be used as a trojan through which to hide agenda that belies the presentation. We do this first to deceive ourself - and use others as the power of agreement whereby to 'make real' such pretences. Whether those 'others' be considered power conferring masters, power joining allies, or our vanquished powerless underlings.
Exactly what Is 'reality' is a profound question - because everything else - bar nothing - proceeds FROM that. The attempt to determine of conform reality to self-concept is a profound and fragmenting confusion.

The folly of solutionism

Commenting to the ideas raised in the folly of solutionism, with  a perspective that is not merely looking at political or techno-political solutions - but addressing the roots of problematic identity at the level of consciousness:


The design-intent of the human consciousness, is to 'solve' its problem 'outside itself' or externally.
It's problem is single - being its identity with conflicted opposition to itself and within itself - and yet the denial and obfuscation of this problem is the first 'solution', which brings with it a multiplicity of problems.
To attempt to articulate on this root level here might be fruitless as our human aculturation is conditioned to already 'agree' to all 'look the other way' rather than undermine our perceived separate self interests.

But the gist is that there is a heavy investment of such self interest - passing as protective advantage to a mode of identity that is itself held un-negotiable - which demands that attention from an inner conflictedness be displaced to external causes and solution.

So there is an aspect of problem solving that works as a smokescreen and diversionary tactic - and indeed an insistence that the problem be kicked out into long grass where it can NOT be solved because the problem is actually within our consciousness.
Consciousness might be a misnomer for something that is attempting to make a mechanism of control amidst what ultimately and only is a function of awareness and attention.

The identification with 'being in control' is a sense of 'power over' life and indeed that power, seen in others or externally is experienced as problematic! But it is also addictive as self reinforcing loops of experience and act.

'Thinking outside the box' is a phrase that can indicate THERE IS A BOX, in terms of an active running self-limiting and mechanical consciousness or conditioning. The default aim of the human mind in ignorance, is to survive and prevail WITHIN the BOX, and to thus keep unconscious, the awareness of the actual nature of the box by externalising its thought and identifying exclusively with those aspects that seem to be
most associated with a personal sense of control.

This is a Dalek's eye view of a Living Universe that cannot feel nor recognize its connectedness, but seeks to imposes its mind - of definition and function - upon life itself.
Yet this spark of life IS its life and yet applies this love-connection only to its own thought-constructs and their logical extensions.

Wanting solutions that keep the dream of a life from waking up (as if that were death or worse than death), is WANTING UNCONSCIOUSNESS to be maintained in the forms of a consciousness that actually does NOT join or truly share Life.

But this MUST disintegrate, because it is all based upon untruth, which requires ever more sacrifice of what IS true to feed its 'habit'. And even the ingenuity of imaginative reframing and redistribution of problems cannot substitute for joy, true rested peace, tangibly grateful loving - or any other quality of Life.

Now problems that are mechanical can be solved - such as how best to peel a potato. But these are blind (in that they presume the potatoes need to be peeled).

Asking real questions is part of getting real answers and the first part of that is a real desire to connect with a SHARED answer. Because the search for the solution in private self-terms is the first error or a mind that thought itself separate from all else that lives or has its being in the awareness of Life.

Who or what really runs Wikipedia?

 On 'The Economist Explains' was the question and answer offered as to who really runs Wikipedia'. In passing I commented:

Though there MAY be personal executive decisions made, transparently or otherwise, and consciously or otherwise, the fact that comes to (my) mind is that the cultural presumptions of the 'age' are what set the values and goals within which and to which all else conforms.

Of course these are not set in stone and there is always a multiplicity of values and therefore purposes.

The ability to create a personal lens through which reality itself is apprehended, with its own set of meanings overlaid on and contra to the Meaning that Reality Is, constitutes a foundation of the human consciousness - not unlike the inheritance (from a yet living father) of the Prodigal Son.

It seems to me that where a loveless and private self serving intent is DENIED the right to impose itself upon the mind at large, the 'picture is brought into a truer focus with less distortion or filtering.

Yet where a voice is denied hearing, it is reinforced in its own sense of being denied expression. Like the fairy not invited to the party, it will, sooner or later spoil the party.
Finding ways to include expressions without propagandising for or against them is the way of relinquishing the investment in the personal sense and opening to a shared sense of value.
This is not available to the mentality that wants to be right in contradistinction to the wrong of another; who NEEDS the 'enemy' in order to vindicate their own personal identity-assertions.

Controlling reality is of course a joke. Yet controlling the interpretation and access to reality is taken as a very very serious matter - within our own mind and within the larger cultural aggregations of personal interests of such mentality.

Whatever else we my seem to be doing, we are learning about our own mind - or indeed have so 'personalized' or rationalized the issues that we are simply blindly reactive within our own mind-set. (The set in which we have temporarily identified ourselves as validated).

The reactive mind is an aspect of our thinking which tends to usurp a true perspective, though it does promote an ever evolving multiplicity of a defence/offence mechanism. Being willing to not use this mentality allows all sides or voices in any issue to be included at their essence - if not in the forms of its current expression.

That information can be used as a weapon of coercion and control is true - but that truth can be itself illuminated.

The ownership and survival of that which inspires and embodies the communication, is usually what compromises its integrity, because any threat to its existence is felt to be justifiably blocked or opposed - and here will be the area where truth is made the first casualty to the 'managed' war of what then comes after.

Although Jesus (mythically or otherwise), provided a cultural basis for the age in terms of challenging the power of the mind-in-fear, he would not have been able to contribute to Wikipedia excepting on already agreed definitions. He spoke out of an authority that is not citable or referencing to external 'authorities'- but from a directness of observation that can be verified by any who hear in a willingness to observe likewise.
However, that doesn't mean he wouldn't be able to point to it for background reference.
The process of discernment is different from scepticism in that it pauses from reaction whilst listening within the heart - absent of its own (reactive) thinking. Whereas scepticism does not yield in trust to being itself but defends the point of view that IT has accepted as it own - as a result of thinking - which of course includes some measure of discernment - but only where it is felt less threatening to its own existence.

Misinformation or even unrelated or inappropriate information, is like noise that blocks the signal. Consciously aligned purpose is the nature of the sharing of the signal. It is life-affirming to withdraw support from that which undermines integrity of the unifying purpose itself.

Communication itself is more than information, for its flow or sharing expresses and embodies a willingness to share. This itself is a higher purpose and has its own communication - or rather communion or connection and sharing in a level of Meaning that cannot itself be rationalised into bits of information. (without simply being substituted for by 'bits of information').

Man manipulating manipulators?

Botnet fraud costs display advertisers $6m a month, security researchers say

'Chameleon' botnet falsely views billions of pages and adverts on about 200 sites owned by a small group of publishers

If it can be manipulated it will be manipulated.

Self interest doesn't necessarily play by any other 'self''s rules or alliances of self-interest.

As long as there is a sense of being manipulated, defence will be employed. Attack is then seen as the best form of defence, unless it cant succeed, in which case withdraw, block and hide until your day comes!

Just as well the human mind doesn't work along the lines that the internet does - or our world would be in a complete mess wouldn't it!

Botnet operaters are going to have to emulate human clickers now - surely an impossible feat!

If advertising were replaced by genuine information about products and services, might we actually find what we want when we want because we want it?

Is advertising primarily a protection racket that businesses have to pay to not be rendered insignificant and unknown? With a front end that bombards the unconscious mind with images and phrases designed to trigger archetypal responses in an endless war to exploit anything in our mind that can be leveraged?
Is it a bit like the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Empty promises to pull us into a dependence on a false sense of ourselves.

Is advertising considered part of our real economy in terms of growth? Is it a cancerous imposition on the body politic?
What would genuine information look like?

What does truth feel like?

Here's to a mind that is NOT at war with itself and a body politic that is not all the part acting without shared purpose. Self interest - in the sense of a private self interest cannot really be a shared purpose - because no matter how many billions 'share' it - they each operate as a non-communing privacy of hidden intent under a mask of whatever passes muster.

The tower of Babel seemed like it was 'going somewhere'. Will the internet disintegrate in dystopian fashion - for the 'one ring' of Tolkien's symbolic power - cannot be shared.

Surely we can trust market forces to come up with the best possible outcome!
And no doubt global corporate interest can pull the appropriate strings in remaining free of any real limitation on their bold march into a future where we can all be branded - and not just the likes of cola.

I think I wrote this in a humorous vein because the story made me laugh!
Someone I know and love is in process of dying. This cuts away so much that is froth - I was going to say crap - but some of us like it some of the time.

And I am prompted to say that what life is really about is love. Not special love just for special me or special you - but love. Somehow this has become perhaps the most fearful and hateful fact - such that society forms in defending against its exposure.
Keep piling on the crap, fighting over crap and making or buying crap!
It isn't all like that. Life is still Life. It breaks through in all sorts of ways. It is under the radar. It is all that is really going on - even so.
Even for those of us who are releasing our grip - our control - our capacity to play the game of manipulating life.

Ownership and control of Information (Google's search overhaul)

 (I feel the issues around search technology go far deeper than is generally discussed or acknowledged and so I comment at that level)



Communication is generally blocked or distorted by application of  bias towards manipulating that process for private gain.

This inevitably leads to a war of competition and of armouring or workaround against such tactics, and escalates such that sharing information of integrity is lost.

When rules are made, they never lead to the expected or intended result because  the mind that makes its own rules looks for ways to exploit them for its own end.

Integrity of information and intent is increasingly scarce amidst a flood of information  designed to simply catch clicks in order to garner adword revenue.

That there is a reciprocal arrangement in which everyone wins ought to be the nature of transaction. Google succeeded by offering minimal distraction to searchers and also of generally offering a fast service that quickly led to finding what was sought.

In becoming by far the most used search service, they also command a vast advertising revenue as the place to advertize via - as well as an almost monopolistic power within which those who desire to be found by those who would benefit from finding them, have to work.

The movement is to personalizing our profile, such that our mind will be read via our history of usage and catered for. If such a path is being taken, I feel we should have transparency - and the capacity to  edit or delete our usage profile. Divide and rule is the nature of the breakdown of trust and therefore communication.

"Do no evil" is not about fitting into the filters of what anyone thinks is good or bad - but of aligning only with that which honours an integrity of wholeness. Deception, coercion and manipulation are normal aspects of politics, business and social transaction, but only insofar as we choose to act our such intent.

Tolkien may have been prophetic in the story of the 'one ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them' - because technology is seeming to offer such an opportunity to the (fearful) mind that wants such control.

Perhaps the direct evidence of such attempt to enslave, is triggering an awakening. First to that which was no longer trustworthy or meaningful to engage in or with - and secondly to the basis from which a true sanity of being can arise and know its own.

Free will is not a divine right to use all things for selfish ends - but is the capacity to realize the suffering or dysfunction we experience is a reflection of choices we are making and can therefore desist from validating.

Worldly power can seem to impose itself, but it does not have to be validated in our hearts and minds. Insofar as we are tempted to wield it, we need to tune in to a deeper sense of aliveness than reactive self interest, if we want to grow the Peace in place of feeding war.