I want to do something that helps

sabastious

Information in this day in age, through technology, has become so readily available for so many people. This quick supply of information has presented us with a problem. It is human nature to be drawn to sensational information. As history would dictate anything that is human nature can and will be exploited by someone or some group for their own means.

In the recent years I have observed my peers and I have seen them become grossly misinformed. I also have fell prey to the same trap as I sifted through the lies and truths of modern day informational mediums. I am excited to see this world embrace information as it is a necessary step in human evolution, but I also worry about the liars. I don’t worry about the misinformed or ignorant, but I worry about anyone doing purposeful misinforming; lying to their people.

Any leader of any group that decides to lie to it’s people in order to further a specific agenda is a challenge to our livelihoods. It attacks the freedom that was given to us by our ancestor’s blood. In past times we have had to take up arms against these oppressors, but we live in a different time where violence is becoming less necessary. We live in a time where information can be a weapon capable of destroying our oppressors. When a lie is placed side by side with a truth, for all to see, the truth will win without a fight.

For millennia oppressors have been using means of information and emotional control over the people. As history and current day shows, without adequate means of communication the people will fall to the dictators who have been there since their birth. In this day in age the people do have opportunity for adequate means of communication by means of the Internet. I feel it is my duty, as an adept internet programmer, to provide this world with the tools necessary so they can provide the communications the people need to keep themselves within the protective borders of truth.

I have learned, bitterly, that reality is a fragile thing. No matter how firm you feel your grasp is on it when it changes you will not be aware immediately, if ever because if reality changes, in the end, it's your doing. Life is much like a dream in that you can get very lost within it.

I want to help and I have a few ideas. I want to mobilize something, something that fights misinformation, but I don’t know what I am doing.

Here is my Facebook

-Sab

jamiebowers

Thinking about this. See you on FB later.

Broken Promises

Isn't that what Wikileaks is about?

Satanus

Wikileaks, yah, that what i was going to say. Help that guy, assange and his tribe.

S

sabastious

Isn't that what Wikileaks is about?

That attacks censorship more than it does misinformation.

-Sab

Satanus

So, you wanna explain misinformation?

S

sabastious

So, you wanna explain misinformation?

It happens so much in the news media. They will take a subject and strip it of everything that doesn't suit their agenda for the specific discussion. Everyone in the media are guilty of lying by omission at the very least because of their systematic bias.

The Watchtower use the art of misinformation. Now that I have escaped their grasp I am wise to the ways of informational misdirects and logical fallacy. I see it everywhere unfortunately. I see it in ads on TV I see it in the NFL I see it in families. I see this "art" being applied in every wake of life. Why do these people feel the need to have to lie all the time? Why is journalism so sensational these days?

I think it might be that the people doing the informing have preconceived notions about how much "truth" the public can handle. Maybe that was true in the past, but in this new age of information I think the people deserve to know more about what is going on.

-Sab

Satanus

I found that i merely needed to stop listening to the news entirely. Of course, that was after i had spent a few yrs studying basic history, reading conspiracy theory (discarding most of it), and studying basic psychology (how people work). After a voracious sampling of these types of media, i came to the same conclusion as you, sab. My approach was to simply stop listening/reading/watching any news, as a way to stop the polution of my mind. Since i felt that i had come to a basic understanding of HOW the world worked, i didn't need to constant spew from the tv talking news announcers. I have NO IDEA of what a person could do to help other people out of the media barrage. Anyone who uses the same media to put out their ideas simply becomes another chirping bird in the jungle of other chirping birds. Something enitirely different would be needed. You can't fight media barrage w other media barrage.

S

sabastious

Something enitirely different would be needed.

Exactly, I'm not interested in being another chirping bird. Great analogy btw.

-Sab

Murray Smith

I think what you 'pine' for Sab is already well on the way . . . many of my friends are very sceptical of a single source of information including media reports. Perhaps what is taking place in N Africa and the Mid-east are the manifestations of people coming out from an umbrella of mis-information . . . at least partially. IT and the net are having a very liberating effect on individuals (eg this site) and those who set about to misinform will find it harder and harder (eg WT).

Having said that human nature is such that we WANT to believe when told stuff by someone we percieve as honest . . . we don't want to offend by questioning validity . . . (WT indoctrination takes full advantage of this), but I believe we are in a period of rapid change when it comes to this aspect also.

I have to wonder what I would have done 25 years ago (when studying) if the net were what it is today . . . I asked my friends and family about JW's but no one knew about them at all (my sister thought Jehovah was an american). I can't believe that myself or one of them wouldn't have "googled"

My feelings in conclusion, are that what you seek is happening, and will continue to happen, naturally (I hope so anyway) with time.

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