Comments for The Ignorant Gain Power By Controlling Public Information at http://ts-si.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://ts-si.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:49:41 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://ts-si.org/the-discussion/3065-the-ignorant-gain-power-by-controlling-public-information.html#comment-533 A certain former President from Arkansas was famous for releasing "bad" news late on Fridays AFTER the news media had "gone to bed"; then when questioned about it on a Monday, declared it to be "old" news. The media also manipulate the news by failing to ask the right questions or follow up on stories because they are in favour of a particular cause or candidate. - Pamela Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:55:16 +0100 http://ts-si.org/the-discussion/3065-the-ignorant-gain-power-by-controlling-public-information.html#comment-532 [quote]The research in this article quite naturally leads to a discussion of motive and propaganda. It appears to me that men of good will are in a bad situation as they are often confused with other men in the grip of male insecurity.[/quote] Sharon; You beat me to next level in this and it should be obvious how propaganda plays into this, the selective use of information and the timing used to best utilize it. Not just how the Tee-Gee activists manipulate information; on a more complex level how the mainstream media is managed to bury the average person in useless news in order to steer attention away from other bits of news that may have a more significant impact on that person's everyday life, or alter that person's perception of the nation she lives in. Perception is a very individual and personal thing; those who can see past the managed information presented in our modern society have a very different view of the social landscape... - Sue Robins Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:59:52 +0100 http://ts-si.org/the-discussion/3065-the-ignorant-gain-power-by-controlling-public-information.html#comment-527 We can apply the findings to a lot of situations, can't we? It appears that the HBS-born and activist TGs have access to the same information, but what the public and decision-makers hear is limited to a subset. But is it altogether true that we access the same info? We who are HBS-born, genuine pre-ops and post-ops, have direct experience of our birth condition. Many TGs deny we even exist. Of those TGs who do acknowledge us, they tend to see us as an extreme form of them (the TGs). Since most of this onus is directed by males at the females with HBS history, it reduces down to viewing females as an extreme form of males. This runs counter to elementary biology, of course. Females are the default for human beings, with males as a special exception. I like men but their sensibilities can be quite different from those of women. The research in this article quite naturally leads to a discussion of motive and propaganda. It appears to me that men of good will are in a bad situation as they are often confused with other men in the grip of male insecurity. - Sharon S. Gaughan Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:27:22 +0100