www.mind-war.com By Jim Stewartson
Cult leaders and dictators have always created alternate realities based on fear, so they can control people with it. They identify an enemy, regardless of whether the scapegoat is guilty of anything, dehumanize it — and drain their victims of labor and resources to “fight” the boogeyman. Historically, authoritarian cults have had to physically isolate people to create an effective alternate reality, while dictators have required the power of the state.
But technology made it so oligarchs can get in on the game.
As an example, the technology of the newspaper — the ability to cheaply print narratives at length and deliver them at scale, was transformational. And like all technologies it was used for good, bad and everything in the middle.
Enter an oligarch with bad ideas who purchased a newspaper in 1918 called The Dearborn Independent. Plutocrat Henry Ford had just lost a Senate race, as a candidate who was described by the New York Times at the time this way:
“Mr. Ford is a highly successful business man, but he has demonstrated conclusively on many occasions not only his lack of acquaintance with basic international and national affairs, but a certain quality of mind which forbids the hope that he will ever be able to overcome that lack of equipment—an altogether too impressionable mind for public office.”
Sound familiar? You may be thinking of Donald Trump, but the description is apt for Elon Musk as well. While his reputation as a genius has been actively curated for decades, any casual listen to the man, or look at his Twitter account reveals something different. He’s objectively not smart. Devious, yes. A con man, yes. But that’s different…
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