BP's censorship is a perfect example of corporate-manufactured "reality".

[Odin2005]

That is what "perception management" is, manufactured reality. Survivors and workers forced to stay quiet, journalists and scientists are kept out by BP's thugs, AKA the "Coast Guard". They keep lying their ass off about the amount of oil coming out.


This shit is driving me to near insanity because I don't even know what to believe anymore. How can you trust the factuality of ANYTHING when are society is completely contaminated by corporate "perception management"?

[RandomThoughts]

1. There are many that think it is all about perception.

Sorta tested that a few years ago, many people think it is not about being genuine, or what you think, but about what people think you think and feel.

Perception management, heh, what a term, and pretty sad.

[msongs]

2. a certain famous US president was allowed in to see, courtesy of HIS FAA nt

[TheKentuckian]

3. Nope and it would be best they crash completely before CGI gets much better

The truth will seldom overcome lied to eyes no matter how otherwise obvious the truth is.

[Hannah Bell]

4. you can't. this is one of the reasons why modern life drives people crazy.

seriously.

[ZombieHorde]

5. "How can you trust the factuality of ANYTHING"

Personal experience is useful for some things, such as fire being painfully hot, but fails for many other things, such as the color of an object.


Print out this image and then cut out squares A and B. When you compare the two squares you will see they are the same exact color.

[leftstreet]

6. Get down with the sickness

K&R

[Swamp Rat]

7. I guess we're the 'focus group'

more like 'fuckus'

[Duer 157099]

8. Just think, before the Internet, we never even realized it

I don't think it's a recent phenomena, just that we have finally pierced the veil with the Internet, yet they still think they can fabricate reality and nobody will notice.

[Odin2005]

10. Exactly! That's why they want to kill Net Neutrality.

Make it impossible for us peons to afford to get the truth.

[Beam Me Up]

9. Who ever controls your perception of reality controls you.

Whatever you believe to be true, whether it is true or not, will be the basis upon which you make the decisions in your life.

But what if, as you say, you don't know what to believe? This works for 'the powers that be' because if you aren't sure, if you don't know with a certainty what the facts are, you are essentially rendered powerless. In an environment of information contamination, moreover, people tend to take positions based not so much on 'facts' as on 'prejudice' or 'predisposition'. This keeps a population at odds with itself, unable to agree upon a collective perception that might lead to significant political change in the systemic structures of power.

Chomsky:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

[Cetacea]

11. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

12. I imagine with the recent Supreme Court decision

of "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" when we get closer to the upcoming election corporate "perception management" in general will kick in to high gear on multiple levels.

Thanks for the thread, Odin.

[suffragette]

13. K&R

It's frustrating as hell, isn't it?

[Odin2005]

14. Yes it is.