1/ I find it hilarious that in V for Vendetta, the news comes out that the disease that allowed the authoritarians to take over was exposed as actually CREATED BY THEM, and the people rebelled and the authoritarian government fell.
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4/ As a kid, even as an adult, I just accepted this trope as real. ...it was only later that I realized that the trope was entirely invented. It was a framing created for Watergate..
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5/ Watergate was penny ante corruption, the kind that happens in more or less every race. Turning this into a capital-S Scandal was an act of creation and orchestration, with air cover from left wing advocacy groups, law groups, and - of course - mainstream media.
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6/ Nixon was brought down by a press that buys ink the the train-tanker full, and had a very very precise political goal. Nixon was not brought down by "getting information in front of the people". W/o a coordinated campaign where 99% of the ink spilled was on the same side...
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7/ No "scandal", no resignation. Of course, the media didn't want to sell this as "look how much power we have; we can topple a president" (they didn't get arrogant enough to say the quiet part out loud until they forced Trump from office - and even that took extra work, like
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8/ conspiring with government health bureaucrats to delay the vaccine until a few days after the election. So, anyway, since the media wanted to keep its power level hidden, it created the myth that "the right information made public is explosive".
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9/ ...as if the NYT and the media has no agency - you just dump true information in to a reporter's in basket, and then The Truth Comes Out, and the Right Thing Happens. Once you know the trope as a trope, you see it everywhere. E.g. Cloud Atlas.
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10/ Exactly where I was building to this whole time. Without the elites coordinating to make the Right Side of the Story clear, and hammer it home day after day, week after week, info dumps make ripples and then fade and accomplish nothing.https://twitter.com/JoeWChristman/status/1493215257669472260 …
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11/ "can't stop the signal, Mal" LOL you don't have to stop the signal without Narrative Formation, nothing happenshttps://twitter.com/MKRiker2/status/1493216712690339846 …
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I trust the Soylent corporation is looking out for us. What do you want me to do, starve?
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