Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Approaching Misinformation/Disinformation in This Age

There’s a reason there was a long break between posts here.  Not that I had lost interest and wasn’t paying attention anymore.  Mostly it’s related to the repetitive content of the source material.

Long ago I knew that part of the existence of this material was being used by “them” as a reference for what “they”were doing wrong in order to adapt and change.  There’s been few major changes, just little tweaks.  And overall there has been some benefit to these posts.  As far as the gematria community goes there’s hardly much mention of science related content.  It’s more like, “Covid is a hoax, here’s the gematria of what Fauci said yesterday.”  Instead of, “The spike protein has a DNA sequence of G-A-U-C starting in position #47 which Demond’s me of FAUC (I) and we all know what 47 means!!”  Which was absolutely the kind of sciency mumbo jumbo they threw out to confuse the not scientifically literate people back in the heavy Pi ritual days.  But mostly, it’s the fatigue that has come over the long timers that put out two videos a month on a good month instead of three a day.  It may have  taken longer than I would have liked, but the landscaped has changed.

The Sports Gematria YouTube channel has used (either by discovering on his own or maybe aided by this material) some of the basic concepts of the sports betting angle.  And other critics, even truth community members have woken up to the picking both teams, waiting until the game is over to announce a successful prediction that wasn’t really a prediction, and so on.

Way too much getting up to speed there.  So the point.  This is for “the normies” out there.  The non-truth seekers that are fed up with the photoshopping, altered videos taken out of context, the gematria and anything else used to manufacture fake evidence.

Misinformation has been around FOREVER.  It’s likely you are just more aware of it now because it’s in the news so often.  Some of the reasons this blog even exists is because the correct information is out there.  People just need a better understanding of how to sift through what is an actual fact and one that isn’t a fact that just looks good on paper.  And I stick by my belief that it has more impact when it is discovered independently without being force fed.  Pointing in the right direction is good.  Demanding an end only makes confused and somewhat brainwashed people double down on the crazy.

I have IRL encountered this kind of commentary far too often: “Well my social media friend’s account was banned for medical misinformation.  What if they REALLY BELIEVE” Ivermectin works!!  Censorship!!”

Well, why is your friend looking at the wrong answer?  Since misinformation has been around forever there’s likely a source with a financial or political agenda involved somewhere.  FOX News and Alex Jones will gladly let you pay them for more misinformation.  If they disappear, someone will gladly take there place and sell you more bad information.  What’s changed is the format of the delivery system.  It used to be Dr. Fergus’s Magical Wonder Ointment traveling town to town.  Eventually emails from Nigerian princes.  Now it’s way too easy to get lost in the rabbit hole where poorly moderated social media has the audience coming to the snake oil instead of the snake oil coming to the audience.

Gematria itself is not a bad thing.  If someone gets a spiritual boost by analyzing bible verses, good for you.  Decoding a sports game and picking a winner, yippie for you, knock yourself out.  But if someone is involved with it to the point where the messages involve people buying guns to protect their right to mistakenly believe Ivermectin works and people should kill themselves if they don’t see that, we have a problem.

Physical infrastructure has been put off by passing the buck FOREVER.  The Internet infrastructure decayed in record time.

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