The War for Control of the Story (Reality Sandwich)

[John Harvey]

Reality Sandwich (RS), which contains the story below, is the online magazine of Evolver, a network promoting intelligent, informed discussion of social evolution. For those disenchanted with the mass media's collaboration in silencing medical viewpoints at odds with orthodox hearsay, the RS article linked below makes keen observations on the present mass-media monopoly on public perception; its recent inroads into taming the Internet; and the present potential for its radical reorganisation.
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The War for Control of the Story

Daniel Pinchbeck
Two excerpts:
"The proposition that only one form of economy, one type of money, is inevitable and innate to our human nature is a story that our culture tells us and constantly repeats and reiterates to compel our belief in it. In many arenas, a fierce battle is taking place for control of the story. A war is being waged to determine what type of cultural conversations are encouraged and what ideas get systematically suppressed, ridiculed, and rejected."
"Right now, we have an opportunity to change the underlying story and operating system that runs global society, that determines its priorities and practices. I propose that there is a relatively short window in which we can bring about this change, for a number of reasons… the controlling forces are seeking to trap the liberatory potential of the Internet in new static forms. This is what 'Facebook Connect' suggests to me, among other ways that the Internet is being homogenized."
Cheers --
John
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

-- Bertrand Russell