Stereotypes: The Influence Of Communication In Our Society
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The world is already structured for us when we arrive... We are expected to blend in and conform to ideas and thoughts of others, and call them norms rather than create the world anew for our individual selves.
Before the digital age of information, most information could be manipulated, exaggerated to influence the thoughts of the average person. There were few resources to rely on for the facts, and this scarcity played into the hands of the so called rulers, much like the single television station in a dictatorship.
In the 1950s, experiences like the "unamerican activities" could fester because people couldn't go online and fact check for themselves. We were dependent on what we heard from three major news media, or from the …show more content…
political experts in Washington,
If they said thus and so was true we had little alternative to hear an opposing, and possibly a more truthful version of events.
I feel this free access to alternative info is disturbing to those in power who have been so accustomed to spinning a story that is advantageous to themselves. It seems that they are scrambling to reorient themselves to this new age information, how can they use it as they have in the past. How do they hold the upper hand, retain the power of manipulation.
I notice that stories in the news seem to be desperate attempts at influencing the way most people think about world.
This influence as was in the age before digital information, is now boarding on the bizarre. That is, they're making mountains out of molehills, where a simple snow becomes a crippling geologic catastrophe. This is indicative of their incentives, meaning, the information that people receive is always spiked with fear and apprehension of what will happen next. Why would they want to communicate in this way. Because people, like animals, are better herded if they are made to fear some impending doom. It is the way sheep, cattle and horses are kept in line. They don't freely roam because their consciousness is preoccupied with fear of what is happening. For centuries and to this present day, public news has been a cattle prod. For instance, what good does the telling of a criminal event in one part of the country do for a free thinking person in another area of the nation. If the information they are being given is sincere, then it wouldn't be given in the form of a sound bite. "Man commits crime" is all this news viewer receives. What can be made of such knowledge, it can only appeal to the emotional experience and usually that experience that excites a fearful or negative emotion. They have learned nothing valuable. In fact they have been prevented from thinking valuable thoughts, which I feel is the true purpose. After all, what good is a horse that won't Gallup at the stab of your spurs.
I'm tired of American politics, I'm tired of world
politics.
The world is already structured for us when we arrive... We are expected to blend in and conform to ideas and thoughts of others, and call them norms rather than create the world anew for our individual selves.
Before the digital age of information, most information could be manipulated, exaggerated to influence the thoughts of the average person. There were few resources to rely on for the facts, and this scarcity played into the hands of the so called rulers, much like the single television station in a dictatorship.
In the 1950s, experiences like the "unamerican activities" could fester because people couldn't go online and fact check for themselves. We were dependent on what we heard from three major news media, or from the …show more content…
political experts in Washington,
If they said thus and so was true we had little alternative to hear an opposing, and possibly a more truthful version of events.
I feel this free access to alternative info is disturbing to those in power who have been so accustomed to spinning a story that is advantageous to themselves. It seems that they are scrambling to reorient themselves to this new age information, how can they use it as they have in the past. How do they hold the upper hand, retain the power of manipulation.
I notice that stories in the news seem to be desperate attempts at influencing the way most people think about world.
This influence as was in the age before digital information, is now boarding on the bizarre. That is, they're making mountains out of molehills, where a simple snow becomes a crippling geologic catastrophe. This is indicative of their incentives, meaning, the information that people receive is always spiked with fear and apprehension of what will happen next. Why would they want to communicate in this way. Because people, like animals, are better herded if they are made to fear some impending doom. It is the way sheep, cattle and horses are kept in line. They don't freely roam because their consciousness is preoccupied with fear of what is happening. For centuries and to this present day, public news has been a cattle prod. For instance, what good does the telling of a criminal event in one part of the country do for a free thinking person in another area of the nation. If the information they are being given is sincere, then it wouldn't be given in the form of a sound bite. "Man commits crime" is all this news viewer receives. What can be made of such knowledge, it can only appeal to the emotional experience and usually that experience that excites a fearful or negative emotion. They have learned nothing valuable. In fact they have been prevented from thinking valuable thoughts, which I feel is the true purpose. After all, what good is a horse that won't Gallup at the stab of your spurs.
I'm tired of American politics, I'm tired of world
politics.