An anonymous Bush administrator told The New York Times“We are now an empire, and when we act, we create our own reality.” Those who consultants call “reality-based communities” will “study this reality as you wish – Judgment.” Then, “We’re going to take action again to create other new realities that you can learn too, and that’s the solution to things.”
This statement is arrogant and I am wondering now if it's just too early. Although Bush won the 2004 election, reality quickly collapsed - Bush's agenda failed in Congress, the American people began to see the Iraq war as an unnecessary welfare, Republicans lost control of Congress in 2006, The economy fell into a huge recession in 2008, and Democrats regained control of the White House.
Before the invasion of Iraq, many Americans were wrongly convinced because the Bush administration managed to "create" the "reality", Iraq played a role in 9/11, or it had a large amount of large-scale weapon destruction. But the actual reality violated it. That was before Americans began to rely on social media or see the world through their phones. Will the actual reality invade today? Private companies that control social media networks have unprecedented ability to manipulate and control the population, allowing them to maintain algorithmic cages related to reality.
The newly formed Trump administration has the worst sign of the Bush era. Like the Bush administration, the Trump administration has tried to clear dedicated, capable civil servants from the federal government to support Sycophantic loyalists. Like the Bush administration, the Trump administration has hardly considered its authority constitutional or legal barriers. Like Bush’s supporters, the lower classes in the Trump administration talk about their leaders with reverence of cult reverence, the one-hearted dogmatism of fanatics for what they consider to be a holiness mission. The empire's life is no longer limited to the emerald cities of Baghdad Greenland, back to the capital, the lawlessness of the Bush era after 9/11, returned in a more bizarre, exaggerated way as the successor of the administration's management philosophy.
However, this time put reality within the scope of Imperator's capabilities. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Openai Ceo Ceo Sam Altman and Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew (Sh ou Zi Chew) is from Scott Roxborough "Broligarchs", presented by Scott Roxborough. symbol. The far-right billionaire and owner of X, Elon Musk, and Trump’s blessings seem to have illegally controlled some people in parts of the federal government, who represent a tech elite, collectively Controls the medium for Americans to collect and evaluate information, and thus determines most of what Americans see and hear every day. It was bad enough that social media companies had profits that made people attached to the screen for as long as possible before Trump was elected. Now, Trump has made it clear to himself that he wants them to use their power to support his administration. They at least symbolically demonstrated their loyalty. Bezos even interferes with editorial independence Washington Postthe newspaper he owned was to prevent it from endorsing Trump's opponents, and his subordinates began to gradually remove the agency.
Although many Trump allies spent most of his first term, and all the Biden administration complained about “waking up capital” or the captive companies of free cultural power, it is clear that they never had the power to cut corporate power. Interested only in controlling the power of the company it is for their own purposes. The goal now is to impose their version of reality on the public, even if they pursue an agenda that is simply devastating.
They say it in their own words. Musk, who has gained unprecedented impact in the administration because of hundreds of millions of dollars in financing from Trump's campaign, said he wanted to "ensure long-term prosperity by cutting federal spending."
I would say fluent billionaires, so please allow me to translate. When Musk said he wanted to run the government like a business, he meant he wanted to cut the benefits it offered. When he said the government needs to "live within means", he means it needs to reduce taxes on billionaires and cut services to everyone else. When he said "temporary hardship", his idea was that he and his friends would continue to live in incredible luxury while millions worked hard to make ends meet.
When Americans start to suffer, as Musk put it, the purpose is to leverage the tech industry’s control over what the public sees and to hear deceive people into thinking things won’t happen like this, or should blame others .
Zuckerberg (Zuckerberg Meta-App Report has been suppressed from left-wing content. (Meta insists it didn't deliberately hide posts.) X has been a racist, pro-Trump-propaganda sewage reservoir since Musk's purchase, this one The truth is that the so-called liberal absolutists try to suppress it through rash lawsuits.
Mainstream media has many disadvantages. Many of their business leaders have succumbed to Trump's efforts to bully them by complying with unnecessary but profitable settlements to end Trump's rash defamation lawsuit. News organizations make things wrong, make mistakes and make sensation without the need for material that makes a sensation. But overall, they try to tell the audience the truth. In contrast, social media platforms have a purpose even if people are attached to their devices. It doesn't matter to them if the person they show is true or fact. Importantly, no one stops scrolling. The purpose is to keep the Americans in that cage. The purpose of this cage is to make companies profit, but we are now entering an era where governments are putting pressure on them to keep Americans docile, obedient, controlled, and in some cases, “hopeless” reactive anger. ” As journalist Janus Rose said.
A non-ideological example: a social network I occasionally use to figure out videos of big cats that I like like domestic cats. At first, the videos I saw were real, but quickly mixed with these videos, obviously AI-generated slopes that were obviously created by big cats, many of whom still received the number Thousands of people I like. For the Internet, it doesn’t matter whether the video is real or not. The most important thing is that I'm still on the device and soon I'll see another ad or share another content that can lure someone else's eyes on their screen. It's relatively benign, even if annoying, but long tends to promote the pro-Trump world, and your feed becomes a twisted reality created by his supporters.
This helps explain the gap between what Trump supporters think Trump will do, namely inflation, expelling undocumented criminals and spending from time to time (other people) to deserved (theirs), And what Trump is doing now is raising prices through tariffs, preparing to raid elementary schools and withdraw identities from large numbers of immigrants and trying to sharply cut American services. If you follow your campaign through a reliable media source, you will understand it is coming. If you are absorbing a lot of publicity from pro-Trump influencers, you might be surprised, or have very strong denial powers.
These platforms are not worried about the accuracy of what people see - when a person starts in a pro-Trump rabbit hole, that's what he or she feeds. No wonder so many people have delusional understanding of Trump’s agenda. The capital did not "wake up" before Trump, and it is not "anti-beating" yet. It is capital, and its incentives are always profits. But, essentially, authoritarianism tends to obey the state.
Trump's agenda, if successfully implemented, will lead to massive pain. It will test the bars of the algorithm cage, which will judge Americans based on their own experience or what they see on the screen? As Chris Hayes writes in his new book The siren's phone number“You have to get attention before you convince.” Where Trump and his allies have a hard time problems, they will seek to use the communication network they capture to convince others that there is something wrong, and the coma they fabricated is not It happens or is actually a positive event. Where they can’t do that, they’ll try to confuse Americans by clogging these channels with toxic waste and flooding “shock areas” like Trump’s staunch Steve Bannon As I said once.
Will Americans recognize what is going on or will they be distracted, appeased or misled by the billionaire overlord’s inaction? The answer to this question will determine whether those responsible for the pain that comes will be held accountable.