Vocabulary Lesson
Active Measures
Disinformation
Fake News
Hybrid Warfare
KGB Theater
Information Warfare
Kompromat
Orwellian
Perceptual Control
Reflexive Control
Troll Farm
Now there’s New Speak indeed!
And much better than “Newspeak” (revisit Orwell): how dumb I / you / and we may be may be entirely up to ourselves!
We may wish to become aware, however, of our own “dumbing down” through allocation and curriculum priorities in general education and perhaps through our own penchant for entertainment without much critical demand on our own part except to be . . . well, entertained far more than informed or otherwise intellectually engage.
That’s okay, of course
Allowing ourselves to be entertained is part of how we retreat …read more
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