Hi Squonk,? ? Yes, I believe the American culture values truth. But it seems the corporate-leaders would like to define that truth for their convenience. It's all one big public relation campaign at the moment, while pockets are being picked.? ? Marsha
Hi Marsha, I see what you mean. This?seems to be?a feature of social power: Information can be mediated?to serve the interests of those wishing to exercise control. By mediation i mean the information is?edited, censored, manipulated, erased, highlighted, emphasised, de-emphasised, chosen, neglected, etc. Another interesting way of mediation information is to change the meaning of language in order to do this more effectively. I think Arlo has hit the nail on the head there with his 'truthiness' comment - most insightful. If the degree of manipulation becomes severe then i think one may justifiably regard the social power in question in terms of fascism. It has been argued that the US is currently in a proto-fascist state. An antidote to this may be a good dose of truth? Interesting, squonk Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
