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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2/ ...but in the real world, where we have the actual documents showing that the virus that allowed the authoritarians to take over was actually CREATED BY THEM under gain-of-function research...55% of the population chants "TRUST SCIENCE / FOUR MORE YEARS / NO HORSE MEDICINE!"
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3/ There's an entire trope which is "once get this information in front of The People the system will collapse and good will be restored". I first became aware of it when I was like 9 years old, watching Capricorn One on Saturday afternoon reruns.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKbwdTCL8rA …
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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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Replying to @MorlockP
Yeah reads thread starts seeing quote replies thinks "thread's over" type type type d'oh.
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