Structural Punishment - Challengers are funded to replace those who break from the system.
So the truth is irrelevant—obedience is mandatory. Stray from the doctrine and you'll find hard times.
So the truth is irrelevant—obedience is mandatory. Stray from the doctrine and you'll find hard times.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamut_(Bartol_novel)
From that point of view z there's nothing new. Only now it's official.
This however is on steroids.
Forget freedom of speech, perhaps we should start the fight now for freedom of thought.
And betrayal has consequences.
Hypothesis- it will be the death of US technology leadership.
The future is based on machine learning mechanisms. The #Trump&Musk system is based on obedience and Distrust.
So no one will trust any AI the more this continues....
They can’t just abandon narratives their base demands.
They can’t admit mistakes without consequences.
They are as trapped by the system as anyone else.
This isn’t strategy, it’s capture.
The only instance I know of him, kind of, self-censoring is on the issue of CoVID vaccines, but even on that he claimed credit, even as he said "they don't want me to say this, but ..."
Which means for all intents, they are immune to it
has a more visceral feel to it.
Disordered discourse doesn’t just distort truth, it creates an alternative reality that enforces itself.
Not through control. Not through strategy. But because it’s self-sustaining.