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@leashless "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation.

Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 28 May 2023

@john_sipher @jack A veteran of the CIA's global media analysis section? Clearly not. 'Owned' by the peak deception of a monolithic caricature of reality and the immense array of epistemologies and institutions it exclusively represents, validates and secures? Clearly, yes. 878:1

@nick_routledge "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." @danielpinchbeck QT: @jeremyscahill The most popular liberal cable news program in the US, The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, continues to completely ignore the massacre underway in Gaza. A total of zero mentions of it this week. She even had the chair of the Senate Intel Committee on last night and... nothing. So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1. QT: A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monn. Int. Phys. for Prev of Nuclear War.
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@nick_routledge "In our society, the media functions as a collective nervous system or immune-response task force, inoculating the social body against any new pattern or incoming information that might threaten conventional values and biases." @danielpinchbeck QT: @jeremyscahill The most popular liberal cable news program in the US, The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, continues to completely ignore the massacre underway in Gaza. A total of zero mentions of it this week. She even had the chair of the Senate Intel Committee on last night and... nothing. So, first, a statistic to tell a story: male life expectancy in Washington, DC, is lower than it is the Gaza Strip [CIA statistics]. Second, a ratio, 878:1. QT: A survey conducted by FAIR of the sources on the ABC, CBS and NBC nightly news in the first two weeks of the war found that of 878 on-air sources, only 1 was a representative of a national peace organization—B. Monn. Int. Phys. for Prev of Nuclear War.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @aspiringpeasant Ah, perhaps it's that they've amped up as a corrective element, particularly around Palestine, as major state and media actors have caved en masse to a form of systemic moral destitution. When @ft describes the West as succumbing to 'a kind of metaphysical detachment', it's bad.Quoted by@aspiringpeasant Ah, perhaps it's that they've amped up as a corrective element, particularly around Palestine, as major state and media actors have caved en masse to a form of systemic moral destitution. When @ft describes the West as succumbing to 'a kind of metaphysical detachment', it's bad.Quoted by@danielrhamilton @aspiringpeasant Well this didn't quite go to plan, did it?Quoted by@JasJohl @nils_gilman Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved.Quoted by@MintPressNews @MnarMuh @AlanRMacLeod A very slick, post-ironic guerilla-ontology (wiki for clarification); a sexualized form of weaponized ambiguity applied to seducing consciousness; media ecology, aimed as a diabolical claim upon the private soul. The digital Death Complex is getting really good at deception.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli We reap what we sow: recognition that 'how we get there is where we arrive' is perennial to the Way's 'distinctive style'. What does social media have to do with this? In evolutionary terms, it radically enhances a collective harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure.Quoted by@MassimoFaggioli We reap what we sow: recognition that 'how we get there is where we arrive' is perennial to the Way's 'distinctive style'. What does social media have to do with this? In evolutionary terms, it radically enhances a collective harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure.