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Breaking News; or, Janus of the Third Kind
In America new information (& if & when used, older information as well) must be instantly converted into money. The conversion is achieved not by respecting the information for its positive or negative truth or social value & publishing it straightforwardly, but rather by respecting it only as a device to be immediately changed into any imagined substitute form that might maximize the amount of money obtainable for oneself or for the organization one is employed by or is promoting.
Such convertibility is inherently part of Schismogenic Economic practices & theory - that is, runaway capitalism - & schismogenesis in both of its virulent forms, Complementary & Symmetrical, is essential to the growth of the not entirely original but hugely admired & infectious American pathogen.
Civilizations were made possible by the Agricultural Revolution which began 10,000 years ago, & all were modeled from the easy, briefly profitable for some persons but in the long run always fatal disease of Class Differences - fatal to the poor, the rich & every civilization contaminated by it. The upper class is a clinging class, & as such avidly rejects changes that in the long run are plainly necessary to both its own survival & the survival of the culture in which it functions. Likewise, institutions that serve the upper class, especially their religious ones, resist almost all change, no matter how profoundly ignorant & blindly stubborn doing do makes them appear. Witness all of the right wing 'think' tanks that manufacture propaganda designed to prevent the public from seeing that the masters of the world are destroying it as rapidly & wantonly as possible - the oligarchs & the upper tier of their minions rush headlong to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.
The present evolution of the virus may be summed up in the 2002 disconnected from reality, postmodernist radical relativistic fantasy of Turd Blossom, as George W. Bush called his chief political advisor, Karl Rove, first quoted by Ron Suskind in The New York Times in an article published in 2004:
In the summer of 2002, after I [Suskind] had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide [since learned to be Karl Rove] said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
I am not shaping a literary conceit. Just as Schismogenic Economics is a financial pillar, postmodernist Radical Relativism is the ideological pillar of the conversion of news into nooze, which largely but not exclusively consists of the magical & often criminal transformation of matters of truth, falsity & social policy into mere opinion presented to audiences as schizophrenic 'debates' that grip & hold bamboozled TV viewers & readers so that their innocent & humanly gullible attention can be used to obtain money & wealth from advertisers for corporate networks & publishers.
Look at the photograph.
When one receives information that is presented not from its face, but from its ass, it may be brightly lit & greatly detailed, but it is unreadable & confusing. Hypnotists are familiar with & employ the power of confusion. They commonly make a series of nonsense statements when inducing a trance state in their subjects, especially the more self-contained & resistant ones. It is officially called the Confusion Technique. It works to successfully bring about the trance state with a significant percentage of even the most strongly sane people. The trance occurs at the very moment when in a flowing stream of purposefully expressed grammatically constructed but meaningless nonsense the hypnotist abruptly voices a clear, understandable command, such as "Go to sleep," to which immediately is added, "You will now cease hearing & be unable to obey any voice or instruction that is not made by me."
Turn on your TV. Tune in to nooze. Poverty in the nation's ghettoes is made into money to fill the coffers of nooze corporations & their owners. Blacks & Latins are especially useful for this last purpose, & no expenditures for professional writers, actors, musical composers, journalists or photographers are incurred. You will see Tea Parties being made into money. Crimes of every sort are there being used to scare you so that you will keep tuning in, thus converting your anxiety & its mental & physical health consequences into money for the superrich. Listen to Glenn Beck, or Ann Coulter, whose crafted lies & clever appearance of insanity are used to grab your attention & make it into invisible people's wealth. Look at our abominable politicians, especially but not exclusively on the right, who without conscience willfully assert that there is a plan in this or that bill before Congress to allow Unicorns & Flibbertigibbets to cut off your nose & use it to grow jelly beans, which causes you to be afraid & converts your fear into their power & vast Wall Street wealth - wealth you are completely deprived of possessing any part of.
Can you tune into it without turning into it? I find that dosing myself with TV neurotoxins harms my mind & its moods, so I seek & find information where there are barriers to poisons.
Nooze is not news. News does not break wind.
Breaking News
View Large
Breaking News; or, Janus of the Third Kind
In America new information (& if & when used, older information as well) must be instantly converted into money. The conversion is achieved not by respecting the information for its positive or negative truth or social value & publishing it straightforwardly, but rather by respecting it only as a device to be immediately changed into any imagined substitute form that might maximize the amount of money obtainable for oneself or for the organization one is employed by or is promoting.
Such convertibility is inherently part of Schismogenic Economic practices & theory - that is, runaway capitalism - & schismogenesis in both of its virulent forms, Complementary & Symmetrical, is essential to the growth of the not entirely original but hugely admired & infectious American pathogen.
Civilizations were made possible by the Agricultural Revolution which began 10,000 years ago, & all were modeled from the easy, briefly profitable for some persons but in the long run always fatal disease of Class Differences - fatal to the poor, the rich & every civilization contaminated by it. The upper class is a clinging class, & as such avidly rejects changes that in the long run are plainly necessary to both its own survival & the survival of the culture in which it functions. Likewise, institutions that serve the upper class, especially their religious ones, resist almost all change, no matter how profoundly ignorant & blindly stubborn doing do makes them appear. Witness all of the right wing 'think' tanks that manufacture propaganda designed to prevent the public from seeing that the masters of the world are destroying it as rapidly & wantonly as possible - the oligarchs & the upper tier of their minions rush headlong to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.
The present evolution of the virus may be summed up in the 2002 disconnected from reality, postmodernist radical relativistic fantasy of Turd Blossom, as George W. Bush called his chief political advisor, Karl Rove, first quoted by Ron Suskind in The New York Times in an article published in 2004:
In the summer of 2002, after I [Suskind] had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide [since learned to be Karl Rove] said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
I am not shaping a literary conceit. Just as Schismogenic Economics is a financial pillar, postmodernist Radical Relativism is the ideological pillar of the conversion of news into nooze, which largely but not exclusively consists of the magical & often criminal transformation of matters of truth, falsity & social policy into mere opinion presented to audiences as schizophrenic 'debates' that grip & hold bamboozled TV viewers & readers so that their innocent & humanly gullible attention can be used to obtain money & wealth from advertisers for corporate networks & publishers.
Look at the photograph.
When one receives information that is presented not from its face, but from its ass, it may be brightly lit & greatly detailed, but it is unreadable & confusing. Hypnotists are familiar with & employ the power of confusion. They commonly make a series of nonsense statements when inducing a trance state in their subjects, especially the more self-contained & resistant ones. It is officially called the Confusion Technique. It works to successfully bring about the trance state with a significant percentage of even the most strongly sane people. The trance occurs at the very moment when in a flowing stream of purposefully expressed grammatically constructed but meaningless nonsense the hypnotist abruptly voices a clear, understandable command, such as "Go to sleep," to which immediately is added, "You will now cease hearing & be unable to obey any voice or instruction that is not made by me."
Turn on your TV. Tune in to nooze. Poverty in the nation's ghettoes is made into money to fill the coffers of nooze corporations & their owners. Blacks & Latins are especially useful for this last purpose, & no expenditures for professional writers, actors, musical composers, journalists or photographers are incurred. You will see Tea Parties being made into money. Crimes of every sort are there being used to scare you so that you will keep tuning in, thus converting your anxiety & its mental & physical health consequences into money for the superrich. Listen to Glenn Beck, or Ann Coulter, whose crafted lies & clever appearance of insanity are used to grab your attention & make it into invisible people's wealth. Look at our abominable politicians, especially but not exclusively on the right, who without conscience willfully assert that there is a plan in this or that bill before Congress to allow Unicorns & Flibbertigibbets to cut off your nose & use it to grow jelly beans, which causes you to be afraid & converts your fear into their power & vast Wall Street wealth - wealth you are completely deprived of possessing any part of.
Can you tune into it without turning into it? I find that dosing myself with TV neurotoxins harms my mind & its moods, so I seek & find information where there are barriers to poisons.
Nooze is not news. News does not break wind.