The internet’s near instantaneous ability to spread the message through the use of memetics(what they call “talking points”)is infinitley superior to that of T.V. . The internet is also superior to T.V. as a tool for social control. Together they can create an almost imperceptible secondary reality for the human mind. The powers that be are caught in a catch 22 in regards to their plans to “regulate” the internet. If they regulate it to much ,they will loose some of their abiltity to discern the mind of the public. If they don’t regulate it enough, they risk a large segment of the public going “off message” and thinking for themselves. I think the awakening that has occured over the last couple of years or so is evidence of the latter.
I have a term I use to describe the effects the media as a whole has had on the minds of the citizens of this country, Pavlov’s Nation. They keep ringing the bell but I’m not listening.
They've finally figured out that the Internet stands between them and "confining the Message"...
With the Internet, We the People can access and disseminate information - end running their heretofore control. Spiking a story is new impossible. It WILL get out.
The MSM and the pols in DC have had a very slow learning curve on this. But they finally get it.
It infuriates and frightens them. Their initial solution of course was to control it. They've lost that battle, so far.
Dissemination of information to the 'masses' had always been the biggest danger to despots intent on taking over a country/peoples. The first thing, in the past, was the shut down of communications, isolating people from news and the ability to connect and act.
The Tea Party is emerging as a shining example of how people can fight a tyrannical 'regime' - because of the ability to communicate. The printing press ushered in a great age of 'enlightenment' as people were able to get information on a wide scale. And the telephone. and the radio. but these could all be shut down by the 'invading despots.'
The Internet is an almost magical means of communication and information...and they can't figure out a way to control it. they have a problem - how do they shut us down from the Internet and still be able to operate themselves.