The Weaponizing Of The Credulous And Those Prone To Paranoia Is Certainly Something That Has Occured To The Enemies of Egalitarian Democracy

Reading more about the 5G viral rumor (I refuse to honor such bull shit with the term "theory") and its many and metastasizing allies, I think it's more than a bit likely that some of this is instigated by organized actors, probably Russia, maybe other countries, who want to weaponize our nut cases who, by the sheer idiocy of the Second Amendment are capable of building massive car and truck bombs and who have ready access to what are essentially machine guns. If such malignant actors haven't noticed the potential of setting off our domestic lunatics, nutcases and paranoiacs to cause chaos or disruption they probably wouldn't have the positions they have, certainly not those in government and corporate entities. They probably are trying to find ways to steer the collective crackpots through the internet, a directed weapon is certainly more useful to them than one that isn't steered. It's one of the shocking things about the post-truth phase of modernism that it renders even the educated so helpless as they are manipulated by sensationalistic lies. Really, our common culture has been tabloidized by the abandonment of truth and the permission to lie given us by the "civil liberties" industry and the Supreme Court furthering their arguments. This is what we get when lies are empowered with "rights" talk. 

 

If that potential has occurred to me,it's certainly more than just occurred to those masters of post-truth amorality, the late Soviet era gangsters that took over that country as they gave up the pretense of Marxism for even more lucrative forms of anti-democratic governance.  And they're hardly the only billionaire oligarch gangsters who would do that, we've got more than enough of those right here in the land of the unfree and the home of the paranoid. 

 

The most dangerous things for democracy is the permission for the mass media to lie and to spread lies for profit and self interest and the destruction of good will. Modernism, the so-called enlightenment did both. It's not that the pre-modern period was much better at telling the truth and maintaining an attitude of good will, they weren't better at us but they hadn't articulated the antitheses of those in a way taken as intellectually respectable. Modernism has done that, either we overcome that or we will sink into a dark age darker than the one that gets called the dark age. As I've pointed out before, Bertrand Russell, witnessing the death of the 19th century scientistic materialism he relied on as a substitute for revealed religion predicted a period of such darkness. Only he was too invested in what led to it to get beyond it. We will or we will probably die in darkness.