I want to spend some time talking about something I have been thinking about in recent days. As those of us who can see beyond the everyday morass of information and propaganda, know that we are in the first civil war of the Age of Information.
Since the first gatherings of humans in groups, those who sought to lead us have also sought to control our minds. Information control, information manipulation and propaganda have from the beginning been in the tool boxes of leaders to leverage control and get humans to do things.
Fast forward to 2021 and the dawn of the Information Age and those who wish to lead us are suddenly challenged by an ocean of information and sophisticated personalized delivery and communication systems with the 24/7 streaming of a mostly uncontrolled information and communication into the minds of the ruled.
We saw the preparations for war begin after the defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016. We saw them rally their troops with unending streams of misinformation, lies, attacks, and the vilification of Donald Trump and anyone who dared support him.
We saw the Titians of big tech try to slow and then stop the flow of information by launching salvos of deplatforming and censorship on anyone who dared to challenge their narrative and their accepted “facts”.
We saw the legacy mainstream media act in unison to create an alternative reality based on lies and falsehoods to lock their viewers in news’s silos of fake news.
We saw the Democratic Party fire salvos of Russian collision and launch ICBMs of impeachment at Donald Trump with an unending stream of vitriol and hated toward anyone associated with him.
And when the Democrats saw a landslide election coming at them they openly launched their secret neutron bomb of election fraud to win the first battle of Civil War 2.0
Now daily skirmishes go back and forth as each side tests the strengths and vulnerabilities of the other.
The question now is: Will this cold civil war turn into a REAL civil war?