Peter, Your writing is right on the mark and brings great clarity to who we are as a society. For me, the increments of the changes to the business model started around 1985. I left corporate life that year, and when the wonderful college publisher changed the Personnel Department to the Human Resources Department, a new CEO with a Golden Parachute and the Golden Circle management philosophy was being implemented. The Golden Circle management philosophy can guide improvement in every aspect of business, from organization to hiring and, most importantly, profit margins. However, there is minimal emphasis on staff/personnel. It was time for me to leave.
In those same years, media companies restructured, putting the news departments under the entertainment division. This change is why we see such overblown and exaggerated coverage, focusing on innuendo and hearsay, disregarding facts and truth.
Now, cell phones or pocket computers have replaced religion as the Opiates Of The Masses. And the kingpins controlling these electronic communication addictions are a few members of the billionaire class. We must modify the adage "information is power" to today's societal truth, "misinformation is power."
Endless streams of misinformation are fed to us every minute of every day until there is an obliteration of truth, science, and fact, so we select only information that conforms to our personal beliefs. This new technology is God, providing misinformation and flooding us with endless ridiculous statements, thoughts, and ludicrous assertions. This God is all-powerful and created in man's baser instincts.
Peter, Your writing is right on the mark and brings great clarity to who we are as a society. For me, the increments of the changes to the business model started around 1985. I left corporate life that year, and when the wonderful college publisher changed the Personnel Department to the Human Resources Department, a new CEO with a Golden Parachute and the Golden Circle management philosophy was being implemented. The Golden Circle management philosophy can guide improvement in every aspect of business, from organization to hiring and, most importantly, profit margins. However, there is minimal emphasis on staff/personnel. It was time for me to leave.
In those same years, media companies restructured, putting the news departments under the entertainment division. This change is why we see such overblown and exaggerated coverage, focusing on innuendo and hearsay, disregarding facts and truth.
Now, cell phones or pocket computers have replaced religion as the Opiates Of The Masses. And the kingpins controlling these electronic communication addictions are a few members of the billionaire class. We must modify the adage "information is power" to today's societal truth, "misinformation is power."
Endless streams of misinformation are fed to us every minute of every day until there is an obliteration of truth, science, and fact, so we select only information that conforms to our personal beliefs. This new technology is God, providing misinformation and flooding us with endless ridiculous statements, thoughts, and ludicrous assertions. This God is all-powerful and created in man's baser instincts.
Luddites unite.
your list of distractions is accurate --the problem is that those who voted for oligarchy
blamed the wrong people and reasons for them
Right. And when the inevitable tax cuts, deregulation and tariffs ensue, the whole illusion will be exposed.