>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
Possibly - especially with AI created fabrications... hence the need and importance for humans to be taught about critical thinking, propaganda, narratives, logic, skepticism, basic probability & statistics, etc. - so that people are equipped with the tools that are going to be needed in the coming AI-technology age of mass-deception and gaslighting narratives.
>>"They no doubt will write the history books distorting and lying and covering up, when and if all this is over. More academic tracts will be written. The Western media will wrap it all up in their usual propaganda spin.
Brainwashing us to make us forget and forgive!! We have done it before - being brainwashed -let's not do it again!"
Well said Indu! That is apparently how history seems to work. I wonder how much of what we know about the past is really true and how much of it is made up narratives, justifications, rationalizations, various distortions of truth, and more...
I understand the limitations of the past (in terms of preservation of information/archives/etc.), but what about in OUR current technological age? Will they (TPTB) be able to get away with the falsification of truth as easily as they have been able to do in the past?
Probably, the technology will make erasure even easier. Tick the items, click delete, and “poof” it never happened. Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” was never more relevant than now.
Thank you Chang for a very perceptive comment. Like Joy here says maybe it will be even easier to create false narratives in this technological age.
Possibly - especially with AI created fabrications... hence the need and importance for humans to be taught about critical thinking, propaganda, narratives, logic, skepticism, basic probability & statistics, etc. - so that people are equipped with the tools that are going to be needed in the coming AI-technology age of mass-deception and gaslighting narratives.