I had the misfortune of running into a leftist analysis on Rich Men North of Richmond today. the thing that made me stop watching was when he said
in the next lyric, we can clearly see where this guy gets his news
gets his news
It made me think about my conversations with both leftists and Qtards alike, where they constantly talk about how news source x is unreliable and news source y is the one that tells the truth.
Anyone who is here from GamerGate knows that news sources are unreliable as fuck, as well as being highly prone to lies by omission and otherwise pushing an agenda. this is been true from CNN, to Fox News, to Zero Hedge, to Breitbart, to MSNBC, to any other online blogging rag.
This a world where if someone is simply "getting their news" from somewhere, they do not have the whole truth and are likely in a complete bubble.
One should not be "getting their news", one should be hunting the news and hunting the truth. anything less means you are just believing what someone else wants you to believe.
/rant
With the power of pattern recognition, you will never need the news.
Coming out of the wikileaks era, Gamergate was another one of those weird moments where the curtain of what we thought to be reality was lifted and the devil with a finger then pressed to his blackened lips, said "shhhh~", and pulled it shut. No one else saw. We became bearers of a secret that very few people are aware of yet it is agonizingly within plain sight. The moment you see all of this and its interconnected socio-political/corporate entrails and identifiable historical patterns you can't believe it's actually happening and that they can't possibly just be ignoring all of it! You must show people the truth!
Then you recognize how much explaining you have to do, how short their attention spans are, the tiny timeslice of history they preoccupy mentally, how conditioned they already are, and how they ascertain the social value of even having these opinions... you begin to realize that a lot of their ideas of what is true is basically just a social game - catty political facebook memes elevate their social capital more than anything you have to say.
From then on, it's all pretty much just heavy indifference and crestfallen pattern recognition. Watch your tinfoil hat become a crown of clairvoyance and wisdom whenever you guess everything the news is going to say and everyone's designer opinion reaction verbatim without ever hearing a word of it to everyone's reluctant amazement. Sadly they will still dismiss you.
PRO = Pattern Recognition Observer