Taking a look at the media influences on our citizens all over the Planet.
Influences like the long-running influences of marketing strategies combined with the fast integration of internet on our Daily lives.
In the first part of the 20th Century, we people would read a daily morning paper and watch the news at eight pm on tv. This compares very hard with the 24/7 bombardment on our senses by news media at present. These are easily called psychotic because of their repetitive nature and the constant advertisement interruptions. This became more evident than ever during the covid19 outbreak, when these 24/7 news media played a major role in spreading fear and mental depression around the world. The vultures of media spread badly informed or hardly researched information like wildfire. They were also used by more authoritarian elements in politics and our societies to sow divide and polarize people. Overall, their role was more than questionable and probably criminal.
Now this behavior had set-in in the eighties when marketing strategies were refined to make consumers buy more than they needed. This in-order-to sustain growth in the ongoing battle or economic trade wars, between all countries. Marketing strategies through research found themselves to be targeting especially frustrated consumers or even tried to frustrate them, because the study had shown that frustrated or agitated consumers always buy more than needed without ever getting satisfied. This on itself created a perversion in consumer behavior that was perpetuated into the 21st century.
Add to this the way TV and the Internet have become, and a perfect storm becomes visible. Tv used to be a few channels with entertaining or educational / informative content, together with some ad’s on product placement. This now is an ocean of constant interruptions of ad’s not only for product placement but also for the channels individual own programming. This on itself constitutes an attack on our mental health. So, media has become psychotic to sustain itself financially. It has become utterly schizophrenic. And almost all movie scripts and reality shows are riddled with examples of infantile communication and behavior. Nothing depicting an image of progressive or better inter-human relations, just one pile of crap after the other. If I was an Alien species that wanted to conquer Earth, I would just influence their broadcasts and sit back while watching them destroy themselves.
Combine these facts with the arrival of the digital / internet digital era and it’s attack on our senses, combined with the before mentioned marketing strategies and the 24/7 news bombardments and it becomes clear why so many people can not sustain their individual or collective mental health. We are All constantly being traumatized without ever even resolving the trauma’s of the past. It is like feeding a Devil.
If we combine this information with the erosion of family values and the breakdown of clear If we combine this information with the erosion of family values and the breakdown of clear guidelines and standards within our societies and our present chaos becomes quite understandable. This than again explains the recent rise of nationalist and extremist sentiments. People are looking for strong leaders with clear guidelines in this now perverted relentless waves of information. Neither media nor the big-tech platforms are taking any responsibility for the effects of their algorithms on our respective societies. So, it is hardly strange that; combined with the eroding trust of civilians in their governments, the corruption and environmental pollution by the actions of the financial elite, people are losing their path & point of focus on the horizon as victims of this information-warfare. Propaganda and fake news are just parts of a much bigger problem; The perversion of the entire media output rendering our people lost in an ocean of madness.
And instead of our governments being parents to their citizens, these civilians are left to fend for themselves losing all sense of belonging or stability in an ever-growing global madhouse of chaos.
This is not civilized by any means. This is a retardation of civilization. So not only do we need to address the ongoing environmental pollution and climate-crisis, but we also need to make sure that TV and digital social media-platforms breath some sense of normality back into our societies or shut them down. These issues are way more complicated than just some fake news or political government propaganda. They ask that we educate content developers and programming directors to get a renewed understanding of their responsibilities towards society and mankind. We can no longer accept several hundred channels, broadcasters and media platforms to have so little actual healthy educational, informational, or entertaining programming. While so many channels promote dualism, aggression, perversions, opportunism, and frustration. We need to do this not only for the health of democracies, but for the health of all our people everywhere now as well as future generations. We need to steer away from chaos without falling into the false believe and trust of total control. Our future needs to be one of created order within chaos, recognizing and respecting the grey areas in our societies. That is where creative critical thinking comes into play. Because in order to create ,’ Order within Chaos’, creative minds are desperately needed.
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