InformationOverload

A weapon of oppression in NetoCracy

An important idea in NetoCracy is that the netocratic class partly maintain their power with a kind of bamboozlement. Buy overloading the consumtariat with a proliferation of contradictory and poorly filtered information:

In fact, in many ways, it's FakeNews that the netocrats use to establish power.

See more on PostModernismAndInformationOverload

To answer your question, if pre-modernism is associated with the age of "romanticism". And "modernism" is associated with "enlightenment", you can argue that post-modernism is the philosophy of the age of "Information Overload"

"The Democrats don't matter. The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

SteveBannon

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/media/steve-bannon-reliable-sources/index.html

ConspiracyTheoriesVsCriticalRationalism

See also :

• CommunicationOverload
• HyperNormalization
• ConspiracyTheories
• SenseMaking as self-defence.

21st century wiki-brain https://www.grin.com/document/177537

See WikiSick

AmyXZhang fighting it : https://medium.com/acm-cscw/having-trouble-keeping-up-with-group-chat-39ad7e456968

JamesKunstler : http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/09/scary-people-scary-times.html

On the eve of the only other comparable national convulsion – the lead-up to the Civil War - a strenuous public debate was able to focus on the salient question of the day, namely whether human slavery would continue in this country. Lincoln and Douglas parried for hours in the hot sun, arguing unscripted in complete sentences without the aid of teleprompters or offstage spin doctors. Yet no one above age of nine failed to understand what was at issue.

Note the diminishing returns of technology at work in our time, making it impossible for us to think straight, despite the proliferation of snazzy devices, programs, networks, blog-clouds, and the pervasive, non-stop spewage of so-called information all intended to enhance communication. What did Lincoln have to work with? A pencil.

(WarpLink) FutureShock

Transcluded from UnhappyMeals

This is an interesting quote.

The story of how the most basic questions about what to eat ever got so complicated reveals a great deal about the institutional imperatives of the food industry, nutritional science and — ahem — journalism, three parties that stand to gain much from widespread confusion surrounding what is, after all, the most elemental question an omnivore confronts. Humans deciding what to eat without expert help — something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees — is seriously unprofitable if you’re a food company, distinctly risky if you’re a nutritionist and just plain boring if you’re a newspaper editor or journalist. (Or, for that matter, an eater. Who wants to hear, yet again, ”Eat more fruits and vegetables”?) And so, like a large gray fog, a great Conspiracy of Confusion has gathered around the simplest questions of nutrition — much to the advantage of everybody involved. Except perhaps the ostensible beneficiary of all this nutritional expertise and advice: us, and our health and happiness as eaters.

A good example of NetoCracy using InformationOverload

The result of this huge CloudOfUnknowing is that people are in a state of uncertainty and doubt, liable to doubt their capacity to make decisions and be led by the aggro-industrial-journalistic complex.