I understand your points and I think we would value the same outcome though i disagree to great extent. It's a larger discussion but IMO: Free expression puts the onus on THE PEOPLE to do the work to identify what each individual believes. The whole purpose of journalists was to inform as 1A was written at a time when most of the citizen…
I understand your points and I think we would value the same outcome though i disagree to great extent. It's a larger discussion but IMO: Free expression puts the onus on THE PEOPLE to do the work to identify what each individual believes. The whole purpose of journalists was to inform as 1A was written at a time when most of the citizenry was uneducated. I would argue that the citizenry has become LESS educated. For all of the available sources of information we are collectively more ignorant than at any time in our history as a nation, arguably as a species.
I would also argue that it is no longer possible (if ever it was) to gain anything close to consensus of what is best for the nation. 350mil (that we know of), open borders, culture wars and a centralized media make it impossible.
There have always been gatekeepers to information but a local press reflected the views and ideals of people who were largely like minded and therefore a mandate for the elected. It's why representative government USED TO work (for the most part).
To me it seems the issue is NOT disclosure but the control of WHAT is exposed by those with the most access to and power over disclosure. IT's not the individual who posts on one of the social media 'rags' that the entire 'deadly pandemic' is a hoax created as one element of a conspiracy "hypothesis" (not a theory). It's not the individual expert in philosophy or history. It's the spoon feeding of opinions by clicks and algorithms created by mass media corporations for the purpose of getting everyone into lock step and silencing dissent OF ANY KIND whether opinion or 'misinformation' or even 'dis-information," ( lack of information masquerading as information).
My hypothesis? It's part of the move toward creating the Corporate States of North America (for starters). Government of, by and for the people is and will continue to be replaced by the combined synchronized efforts of the powerful who will benefit from that outcome.
I understand your points and I think we would value the same outcome though i disagree to great extent. It's a larger discussion but IMO: Free expression puts the onus on THE PEOPLE to do the work to identify what each individual believes. The whole purpose of journalists was to inform as 1A was written at a time when most of the citizenry was uneducated. I would argue that the citizenry has become LESS educated. For all of the available sources of information we are collectively more ignorant than at any time in our history as a nation, arguably as a species.
I would also argue that it is no longer possible (if ever it was) to gain anything close to consensus of what is best for the nation. 350mil (that we know of), open borders, culture wars and a centralized media make it impossible.
There have always been gatekeepers to information but a local press reflected the views and ideals of people who were largely like minded and therefore a mandate for the elected. It's why representative government USED TO work (for the most part).
To me it seems the issue is NOT disclosure but the control of WHAT is exposed by those with the most access to and power over disclosure. IT's not the individual who posts on one of the social media 'rags' that the entire 'deadly pandemic' is a hoax created as one element of a conspiracy "hypothesis" (not a theory). It's not the individual expert in philosophy or history. It's the spoon feeding of opinions by clicks and algorithms created by mass media corporations for the purpose of getting everyone into lock step and silencing dissent OF ANY KIND whether opinion or 'misinformation' or even 'dis-information," ( lack of information masquerading as information).
My hypothesis? It's part of the move toward creating the Corporate States of North America (for starters). Government of, by and for the people is and will continue to be replaced by the combined synchronized efforts of the powerful who will benefit from that outcome.