I mean in a way wars are fought with data, and narratives. People want data for the same reason advertisers want data sense we had the analog tv. They have enough information from advertisement to understand how you as a person, as a demographic act, and react to targeted advertisements. Advertisers know when they play a sad, or angry advertisement that it encourages you to buy a product. This information could be used the same way on twitter/facebook/youtube. Infact it is, except we don't understand how these things even work, it's some AI that taught itself all this stuff. It's a mathematical formula at this point. If you watch some ben shapiro video you get sjw owned compilations for the next two weeks. Same for whatever left wing alternative like chapo trap house. It's not really a myth, as much as it is a fact for already weak minded individuals. Try not to take it personally, as it's not a flaw of the surrounding things you enjoy but a flaw of the system as a whole.<br><br><br>The point is, what ever you enjoy or whatever your political leanings have been taught to you. You have been conditioned in a sense. We get twitter warriors, and redditors consuming bad culture repeating it for others spreading their mind virus. People see "Donald Trump did this" or "Hilary clinton did that" fucking 24/7. You're being taught talking points, and being conditioned to attack other's for having a different view. Your news feed, on twitter, facebook, youtube hasn't been organic in a long time. You are a demographic now. A number in some mathematical formula being assigned a point of view. And people want access to this power.<br><br><br>Outrage seems to be recreational at this point. It's formed by clickbait titles (not pointing at UEH or any one in particular). But people have an inherent predisposition to confirmation bias. We are being constantly bombarded with information that it's a lot easier to sort through other opinions and pick one rather than forming our own. Critical thinking is less and less a factor in forming opinions. And you best fucking bet that even the outlets pushing these "outrage" stories are steering the narative just as much as the "fake news" propagators, it's just more subtle and less aggressive.<br><br>We live in a time where it's hard to put everything we are witnessing in perspective. Where big data like facebook wants to be the authority on fake news. Where people are seemingly forced to pick a side and set their ideological roots. We dig deeper because it's easier to read the comments and find one that resonates, rather than through rational, skeptical, unbiased analysis of our own.<br><br><br><br><br>The phone, and the spread of big data has been the focal point now days for who runs the show. It's a security risk that China, and other companies have access to this power because we want it ourselves.<br><br>The military handed over the gps to the people of the united states a long time ago, facebook was funded by Q-tel which is funded by the CIA. Intelligence understands the importance of essentially controlling the flow of information. The flow of culture. We have essentially created the ultimate spy tool, and the thing is every year we get excited to buy the newest version of it for 1000+ dollars and willingly give away our autonomy. We are conditioned to consume and repeat.<br><br><br><br>The worst part of this (and pretty much all military action post 9/11) is that Congress has completely and utterly acceded to the power of the Executive. This is how we get to Authoritarianism. It doesn't matter if it's a D or an R, this is the single most terrifying trend in our system of Government. Yet, all people continue to do is berate the other party while being ignorant to the root of the biggest usurpation of power in American history.