The concept that consequence can be as easily handled as PR is the ultimate artifice and the supreme delusion.
The repercussions of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is hard to determine in daily life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion and narrative control (a.k.a. propaganda) as nothing more than humanity, but this dismissal of moral decay is nothing more than justifying the rot to safeguard insiders from the sobering truth that the whole system is unraveling and heading for its last reckoning: collapse.
We’ve become so familiar with the excesses of marketing that we’ve lost the capability to acknowledge the difference in between “science” that’s been thoroughly designed to reach a pre-planned conclusion and science that accepts the outcome, even if it damages well-funded interests.
The vast stretches of ignorance greatly help this artifice. Even though high school physics, chemistry and biology are sufficient to tease apart the vast bulk of rigged experiments, trials and studies, few Americans have the interest or perseverance to read Stage III trial results, etc critically, therefore the corporate media can trumpet bogus outcomes without worry of exposure: all the statistical tricks and gimmicks are passed off as “science” to the distracted and gullible.
And if someone attempts to examine the outcomes critically, then those taking advantage of the lack of knowledge make the outcomes “secret” until the year 2929. Which’s the whole game in a nutshell: making the most of personal gain from artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion and narrative manipulation, all masked by a rank spew of virtue-signaling and PR.
Every organization that was once trustworthy has been debauched to take full advantage of private gain: college, science, medication, nationwide defense– the list includes practically every sector and market in America. Nothing can be relied on because somebody behind the scenes is spinning the story and data to mask their self-interest, their immense gains and the carefully contrived structure of diverting examination and removing transparency, competition and responsibility.
Our technocratic obsession denies the existence of the ethical universe, lowering the world to techno-gimmicks (electric air taxis for everyone!), techno-fantasies (combination reactors on every corner!) and techno-distractions (which billionaire will be the very first on Mars?), as if a country and society speeding towards moral, social, civic and economic collapse can be conserved by some “development” that beneath the surface area is nothing more than another profiteering monopoly or cartel.
Lots of people fear collapse, however quality, service and dependability have currently collapsed. The washing device that two generations back was designed and developed to last 25 years now breaks down after a few years– so sorry, the motherboard failed. That will cost you nearly as much as brand-new washer, therefore the maker, bank and merchant win since the tired, unaware customer will do the easy thing and purchase a new, expensive appliance on credit. The “old” home appliance (brand-new by previous standards) is carried off to the landfill, the ultimate location of whatever in our Garbage dump Economy of poorly made scrap.
Service would be transported to the landfill also if it was tangible. Alas, it is simply frustrating, as absolutely nothing works and Kafkaesque administrations have a lot power that they are immune to transparency, competitors and responsibility. their sites do not work, they botch one of the most standard deals and they perpetuate inaccurate details, however too bad– there is no recourse.
Big Tech is equally resistant to openness, competitors and accountability. Your “crime” is never discussed, and there is no recourse, for the Device has no judiciary or human contact: you query the Device knowing full well that you will never extract anything from another location fair or just from its algorithmic monstrosity.
Technology doesn’t extinguish moral decay or get rid of the stench of self-serving artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, scams, collusion and narrative adjustment. Innovation just enhances the capacity for profiteering under the tissue-thin guise of “development,” “technological advance” and the threadbare misconceptions of a population that has watched a lot of contrived narratives in which technology conserves the day.
The moral buffers have actually currently thinned; there is absolutely nothing left to tap. There is nothing left in what really matters: social cohesion, moral legitimacy, civic virtue– all removed, diminished, gone.
Drones and robots won’t conserve us from collapse. Neither will blend reactors, electric air taxis, billionaires in space, objectives to Mars, algae-based meat or any of the other thousand “innovations” those benefiting from moral rot promote in the hopes that the banquet of consequences being served can be swept away by more tricks, more artifice, more deceptions, more dreams, more PR, more spin and more story control.
Collapse can’t be gimmicked away. The concept that effect can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion.
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