From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 11:52:16 MDT
> If I may make one general remark, not everyone that offers us
> "facts" is our friend nor do they necessarily have the integrity of the
> average copperhead. This seems to be a case in point -- a piece of
> misinformation traceable back to Sadaam himself if I remember correctly.
> Ron h.
This is what I was getting at with an earlier thread
asking "what is truth?"
A foreign commentator once marvelling at the fact that
the U.S. has a free press. He asked how it would prevent
the press from falling into the hands of our nation's
enemies. My answer to that is simple: our nation's news
media *are* in the hands of our enemies.
A multiplicity of sources is not the only answer, for
they are contradictory and carry assumptions that we
are not aware of. There appears to be in the Middle
East a universal burning hatred of Jews, for whatever
reason. The U.S. supports the Jews, so any news source
from that region may be poisoned, even those in favor
of Israel and the U.S.
If that is the case, then we could explain what appears
to be a general disdain for the U.S and/or U.N. as
memetic warfare.
In answer to your question, who is the greater threat,
the greatest threat are those in control of the devices
still most common for memetic propagation, evidently
the printing presses.
This gets back to the old question: how do we find out
what is true? Have we even figured out the simple
question raised a few weeks ago, where the American
press reported that the U.S. intervened in Bosnia in
favor of the Muslims, whereas the Muslim press has
evidently convinced many that the U.S. intervened
against the Muslims.
Who is lying in that specific case?
spike
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