Whether it's stated or not, one source of the inchoate outrage triggered by Russian-sourced purchases of adverts on Facebook in 2016 is the sense that the U.S. is sacrosanct due to our innate moral goodness and our Imperial Project: never mind that the intelligence agencies of all great powers meddle in the domestic affairs and elections of other nations, including those of allies as well as geopolitical rivals- no other great power should ever meddle with U.S. domestic affairs and elections.
Our outrage is based on Imperial Naivete: the naivete of a public lulled into a warm and fuzzy sense of moral superiority based on the notion that we only go to war to save the good and punish the evil, and if we meddle in other nations' domestic affairs and elections, we're only doing so for their own good.
Since people tend to react poorly to Imperial meddling, we have to do it real sneaky-like using our alphabet agencies and Alphabet itself and all the other tech giants so beloved by financial analysts agog at their immense profits and power.
There's another aspect of Imperial Naivete: the American public naively assumes that their Imperial Project is so god-like in its powers and prowess that no other great power should be able to meddle in our domestic affairs and elections.
The social-media / corporate media addicted U.S. populace is also tailor-made for meddling: a populace addicted to its mobile phones, social media and divisive mainstream media is the ideal populace for those seeking to disrupt and fragment.
We laud our tech overlords and spend an ever-increasing number of hours on news feeds, threads, social media, search and corporate-owned media.
In loving social media and mobile telephony, we're loving our servitude and our vulnerability to meddling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-23/imperial-naivete-american-public
Our outrage is based on Imperial Naivete: the naivete of a public lulled into a warm and fuzzy sense of moral superiority based on the notion that we only go to war to save the good and punish the evil, and if we meddle in other nations' domestic affairs and elections, we're only doing so for their own good.
Since people tend to react poorly to Imperial meddling, we have to do it real sneaky-like using our alphabet agencies and Alphabet itself and all the other tech giants so beloved by financial analysts agog at their immense profits and power.
There's another aspect of Imperial Naivete: the American public naively assumes that their Imperial Project is so god-like in its powers and prowess that no other great power should be able to meddle in our domestic affairs and elections.
The social-media / corporate media addicted U.S. populace is also tailor-made for meddling: a populace addicted to its mobile phones, social media and divisive mainstream media is the ideal populace for those seeking to disrupt and fragment.
We laud our tech overlords and spend an ever-increasing number of hours on news feeds, threads, social media, search and corporate-owned media.
In loving social media and mobile telephony, we're loving our servitude and our vulnerability to meddling.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-23/imperial-naivete-american-public
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