Friday, 9 December 2016

"Fake News"?... But *all* news is fake...

What news is fake, and what is real? All of it is fake and none of it is real.

If it is news, then it is fake. The only reason that alternative media exist is because news is fake - but that doesn't make the alternative news media true: they aren't. It's just news...

It would be a good thing is instead of combing the intenet for 'the truth' about some News, we were all instead to cut our news consumption by 95% - starting NOW.

For so long as our minds are being directed by the news what to attend to, what to think about, and what to think about it - or reacting-against the above - then we are missing the point.

The mass media are trying to retain and expand their hold on our minds by the risky gambit of creating and attacking a virtual entity called fake news, an Emmanuel Goldstein counter-revolutionary, for us to get outraged about: attacking, defending, defining, debating, pledging opposition or loyalty...

It's all news - and its all fake.