I wish I had the level of confidence some of you do that most of what we are shoveled by the media at large isn’t just whatever bullshit the world’s power brokers want us to see, hear and believe.
Hardly anyone has the ability to actually confirm or fact check almost anything we are told about a whole lot of topics.
And someone will sincerely say “But wait, we have all these online fact checkers!” while hilariously oblivious to the notion that the fact checkers are just ordinary people using google to check the information against the same source that fed it to us in the first place.
And any remnant of investigative journalism that’s still out there gets shut down when it gets too close to the truth. Or, labeled conspiracy theory. Or disappeared from social media.
I just don't believe that the "power brokers" are some sort of satanic power cabal with omnipotent powers.
When this all collapses, I'll be less likely to blame news outlets (modulo FOX) than I will be likely to blame movies and TV in popular culture. Writers of screenplays put in all sorts of weird shit that is disconnected from reality that people blend into their worldview.
I can't quite remember the exact movie, think it was Mission Impossible. Ving Rhames has some electronics and it has the "prototype 686 chip" or something like that. This feeds into the narrative that there's some sort of super scientist with magical powers who has produced something that the public can't even fathom. The reality is that when we tape out a chip, we might get a couple dozen parts that barely work, and no way would we be just letting them be ferreted out of the bringup lab for some super secret military project, there are 200 people in the lab and you have to wait for your tiny sliver of time to work with the part. There are probably a few bugs in the part which will have to be worked around in the OS/drivers, which is presumably brand new for this part and still being developed. Any "super new" features probably aren't being exploited by software, the RTX ray tracing stuff we are shipping now has been in hardware for years, but it took a while for the software to be to the point where it could be used.
And those 200 people in the lab and the 3-4 thousand other people who worked on the chip are just regular joes who hope the stock price goes up so we can send our kid to college.
There's nothing magic to it. It's just a big complicated project that requires a lot of hard work and so many people on it that there is no way a conspiracy could occur without it blowing out. With that many people working on it, and standard rates of attrition, any nefarious plot would be an open secret very quickly.
Yet the public believes all sorts of weird shit. About chips, about epidemiology.
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