@hg47's Blog: The Tweet & The TakeAway - Posts Tagged "truth"

I tell the Truth. No impact. So I tell a lie that makes People trip over the Truth & then pick themselves up & look down at the Truth.

Occasionally I have to do that to myself.

My relationship with the Truth is awkward, and I'm probably going to make a mess of this post.

When I use the word "Truth" I mean something like the underlying cause and effect driving the surface appearance of events.

Sometimes I think the Internet has nothing to do with transmitting Truth, but is more about inoculating people against the harmful effects of the Truth. Until we only click on links that appeal to our own personal bias. Until we only join groups that appeal to our own personal bias. Until we [insert ten to ten thousand other examples separating the US from the THEM].

The Internet: many tiny islands of shared interests and beliefs that occasionally grow to become continents of isolation.

Any communication involving two or more people is SOCIAL. The social strategy of hiding the truth, and instead using rhetoric to push the "Hot Buttons" of those receiving the information (or disinformation) to provoke desired emotional reactions can have huge pay-offs. Bluntly voicing a perceived "truth" often achieves less than nothing: it can turn potential friends into lifelong enemies; it can fall flat, achieving only an awkward pause.

<spoiler>Artists with their multiple points-of-view that give them additional perspective on their subjects; Neurotics unable to constructively utilize their disruptive multiple points-of-view; Psychotics with actual multiple personalities; so-called Normal People who try not to listen to the crazy thoughts that spring up unasked in their internal dialogue: Telling the best lie to ourselves may appear the best strategy.</spoiler>

Communicating the Truth isn't about prettying-it-up for your target audience but about flying under the radar, bypassing the spam filters, tricking the internal censor that lives inside of each of us.

The Internet has little to do with transmitting Truth, but is more about inoculating people against the harmful effects of the Truth

Television and Radio are PUSH: Program Directors and Editors and Media Experts determine what you will see and hear.

The Internet is PULL! You choose which links to click on. You decide which news titles and links interest you enough to read the article. You Pull in only the information that pleases you.

You choose which social media sites to spend your time on. Friending and Following is easy: you see and read what your "online friends" show you, what they have to share. When an "online friend" disturbs you by showing you something you don't like, they are "unfriended" with the click of a mouse. If they really piss you off, you can BLOCK them, report them as SPAM, or otherwise try to get them kicked off the site: "No one should have to see such crap! Nobody should have to listen to that nonsense!"

It's the Birds-Of-A-Feather-Flock-Together syndrome gone global. The Internet coddles and pampers us by reinforcing our prejudices, isolating us into pockets of unreal fantasy virtual interactive environs where everyone we encounter thinks like we do! Heaven!

Or, from another perspective, Hell, as the Net becomes less a tool to cope with REAL 3D LIFE and expand our options in REAL 3D LIFE. Nope. The Net is now the ultimate escape from REAL 3D LIFE.

And coming soon to a Net near you: 3D!

@hg47