We're being bombarded with so much shit that we can't even distinguish fact from fiction anymore.

You got it, " what has been concealed will be brought into the light" their attempt at controlling is information overload followed by cencorship. It is becoming more difficult to sift through and gather the nuggets of truth but the truth is out there.

Wag the dog

Exactly. The truth is out there but they are trying to make it like finding a needle in a haystack. While putting a bunch of fake needles in the haystack to throw you off.

If you saw it on TV it was fiction.

TV, including "reality" TV, "history" channels, game shows, the news, is so full of shit. Folks used to say they knew the Moon Landing really happened because they saw it on their TV. Some logic, eh?

Former CIA Director William Casey: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

We dont control the narratives. The media brushes Vegas under the rug and although a small group like us are like "WTF where are the answers?" most of america is too self absorbed to give a shit if the TV stops talking about it. :(

The mainstream media and the government are both intimately aware of how reliably short the American attention span is. And just like toddlers, it is used against them to prevent tipping points of outrage on any particular subject or event by replacing the object of their fascination with something new, different, or more distracting.

When the event is particularly worrisome, like the Occupy Wall Street mass demonstration, interest in it is diluted by the media coverage refocusing the public's attention on a different aspect. During OWS the media refocused attention on the public nuisance and lack of hygiene aspects of the people gathered and interviewed more than a few inarticulate band-wagoners - all intended to progressively trivialize a mass demonstration of public outage. It was done methodically and with patience while monitoring public sentiment. When that effort coupled with the public's already abominably short attention span reduced the public's focus on it, the cops were sent in to drive everyone out without any significant public backlash.

this this this this this

It's not short attention span. It's the complete stranglehold of MSM on public thought. People really believe the MSM reflects the public, and the MSM purposefully avoids old issues and thus people believe the public's attention span is short.

MSM is cancer and it needs to be dismantled. It's fake news and propaganda.

It's the complete stranglehold of MSM on public thought.

Totally agree.

It's not short attention span.

Respectfully disagree. If one is going to intellectually accept that the public is not collectively astute enough to know it is being propagandized and thought controlled (and correct it), it's dishonest to think that they do not also have a commensurate attention span.

MSM is cancer and it needs to be dismantled.

I think there is a distinct societal need for mainstream media but it absolutely must have the public's trust which it does not have in its present state. It has abandoned that responsibility.

MSM refers to specific institutions. News as a concept is not bad and there is most definitely a need, but MSM is shirking their duties.

Overall, the public is simply too disempowered to be able to organize and enact change. Two income households that can't even afford kids, much less take time off to protest, are effectively powerless to march on major issues. Yet they have just enough that they don't want to risk it via rioting.

Welcome to dystopia.

You have the loftier opinion of the general public.

It's because the west is still pretty comfortable. The news is hysterical and people realize it because their lives are either pretty good or the bad things that are happening to them (disease, death, debt etc.) are mostly inevitable.

If America was actually as terrible as people say there would be a lot more unrest. If "The Great Recession" was really anywhere near as bad as the great depression there would have been a revolution in America. It's all hype. Eventually the house of cards will come crumbling down but until then people are rightly NOT freaking out about a bunch of fake news.

Hey, anyone tried to sit down and read a book recently? I used to be able to sit for 5 hours and go cover to cover on an intriguing book, now I can't even concentrate on something I'm excited to read for longer than 45 minutes.

Internet has decimated our attention span.

Certain drugs will do that too. If I smoke cannabis I find that reading a novel is almost impossible (reading internet garbage still comes easily). I recently took a break from it and was reading books every night.

I've heard that from people. I always loved getting high and reading a book; felt like it helped me to become totally engrossed in the world I was reading about. I could never go to the gym high, like some people love to do. Pot effects people differently, who would have thought!

Weed, no weed, doesn't make a bit of difference these days. My attention span is shattered.

That sucks. Yes weed does affect people differently I was just putting that out there in case it helped.

No, appreciate it! Cheers!

I can get stoned and read digital comics all day but I get bored of reading as well. I need the visual component.

Yeah this is very true. It seems like everyone keeps forgetting major problems in only a few days or less and begins focusing on things that aren't important. I think is predominately the total failure of the american media redirecting our intrests to unimportant subjects.

For example. California is litteraly on fire right now.... again but no one is focusing on it, only less than a handful of local news stations are reporting on it. There are also heat waves and floods in japan, a great fire in greece, a genocide in malaysia and many other major world problems that no one want's to focus on.

I don't really think there is a sinister plot behind this, I think that media companies just like other american companies are becoming increasingly more greedy and thus they only focus on news subjects that they know people will pay attention to the most, thus earning them more profit. The cost of this is that the viewers and even the companies themselves are becoming increasingly uninformed about the world around them. I think the internet and media is great for everyone and it's not like paper news is any more truthful. It's just corporate greed that is harming our sense of reality.

And no, the jews are not responsible for this.

It's a little of sinister and a little bit just the way the industry works. The goal now is for everything to 'go viral' as in spread quickly and be everywhere.

On top of that we have 24 hour news cycle, so the talking heads are constantly searching for something/anything to talk about. Furthermore, sensationalism gets eyeballs and sells ads.

Long story short, it's the corporate media trying to keep ad revenue rollling in, sensationalizing everything to get people to watch, and business and other interests trying to spread viral content.

The fatigue we are all feeling is because they are constantly throwing as much stuff at the wall as possible to see what sticks.

Also, most american viewers are too busy trying to survive in the american nightmare to pay attention to the disasters afflicting the world.

very true. I go on runs when I'm a news junkie or things are difficult at work and I have to bump up to 80 hours from 65.

I wouldn't call it a 'nightmare', it's just insanely difficult.

I mean what do you expect us to do about California? Have a national emergency and freak out every time they go up in blaze? If we did that we’d never get anything done. We’re desensitized to all of this shit now because it happens so much.

Genocide here, bombing here, shooting here. Nothing surprises us anymore. It’s all commonplace in the world we live in.

The reason the media moves on so fast is because they’re for rating TV. 24 hour coverage, here is his face, here is how we paint his motives in favor of republican/democrat/whatever the fuck politicol views the news channel is in favor of, and here is the weather. They want ratings, not unbiased coverage.

The solution is simple: unplug.

This is a pretty silly argument. What the fuck do you want them to do? Call news outlets and ask them to cover it from now until it gets “solved”? Because guess what, it’s not going to get solved.

MOST people are just trying to get by in life, working a job they hate, married to someone that probably only made them happy enough to believe they couldn’t do better, raising a kid they probably couldn’t afford while wholly lacking the skills to raise them properly.

Not really sure what you’re expecting.

The collective we always had short memory. We are completely biased, so biased that we forget our biases right after identifying them ourselves.

This has always happened even in the age of TV. The difference of course is now we are in overdrive, meticulously targeted (almost) 24/7.

Though, one thing that bothers me even more is how Google (eg googling) will affect our gray mass long term. Today we don't try to remember something (say a song, some actor's name, a movie) anymore, we just google it. And with cloud storage, even memories (photos) can be searched and instantly retrieved, no need for long descriptions (even if mentally).

https://www.wired.com/2011/07/is-google-ruining-your-memory/

Just part of nonlinear warfare

Logarithmic warefare ?

What you are forgetting about goldfish is that people know absolutely nothing about them.

A properly cared for goldfish will grow to 2/3/4 feet in size, they essentially grow to the size of their tank.

This is because people get them because they want something easy and cheap and difficult to screw up ( goldfish can survive in tanks which have been so poorly setup they would kill most other fish ) but in reality they have absolutely no idea how to care for them or how to make them grow and flourish...

Note: this comment is relevant, re-read if you need to.

I don't know about any of this stuff. I've been sitting on the farm all year smoking weed and talking to the animals as they come up. How far does the land go beyond the next village?

I've noticed this for years. You put it in perfect words. Well said! "Zombies" is no longer hyperbole when talking to someone who is a "mainstream consumer."

Oversaturated is a good word for this.

I grew up in the 90's. I remember movies used to be slower, meaning the pacing, dialogue, etc. were slower. Nowadays there's so many quick cuts and movies in general seem fast-paced. I remember watching a video where it showed that the brain enjoys watching quick cuts and scenes rapidly changing.

I've heard that from people. I always loved getting high and reading a book; felt like it helped me to become totally engrossed in the world I was reading about. I could never go to the gym high, like some people love to do. Pot effects people differently, who would have thought!

Weed, no weed, doesn't make a bit of difference these days. My attention span is shattered.

It's a little of sinister and a little bit just the way the industry works. The goal now is for everything to 'go viral' as in spread quickly and be everywhere.

On top of that we have 24 hour news cycle, so the talking heads are constantly searching for something/anything to talk about. Furthermore, sensationalism gets eyeballs and sells ads.

Long story short, it's the corporate media trying to keep ad revenue rollling in, sensationalizing everything to get people to watch, and business and other interests trying to spread viral content.

The fatigue we are all feeling is because they are constantly throwing as much stuff at the wall as possible to see what sticks.

Logarithmic warefare ?

I can get stoned and read digital comics all day but I get bored of reading as well. I need the visual component.

I mean what do you expect us to do about California? Have a national emergency and freak out every time they go up in blaze? If we did that we’d never get anything done. We’re desensitized to all of this shit now because it happens so much.

Genocide here, bombing here, shooting here. Nothing surprises us anymore. It’s all commonplace in the world we live in.