#truth decay

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As I mentioned before, this is the end result of truth decay; there is no longer any objective truth and no trust or desire to establish one. It’s selectively pruned information shared in ideological bubbles free of criticism that allows each person to generate their own ideology, have it reinforced, elaborated, and fed back to them in a mutually supporting spiral. We create communities where fanaticism and devotion receives instant positive feedback, love-bombing in all the worst possible ways.

It’s cultish in its own way, and in ways even worse. Cults like to isolate prospective members, but the technology we’ve created allows us to isolate ourselves. 

But don’t fool yourself, in some ways it has always been a problem. Plenty of educated people have fallen for lies in ages past. 

Thanks for the question, Anon.

My goals are modest: to introduce you to the secret world of espionage so that you have a beter understanidng of what it is, what role it plays in international politics, and how it is carried out by people and technology in historical perspective.

Although America might be uniaue in the size of its intelligence apparatus, all spy agencies were seduced by the potnetial of secrets to solve problems and become caught up in a spy game obsessed with bureaucratic secrecy.

Two of the most monstrous regimes in human history (facism and Stalinist communism) came to power in the 20th century, and both were predicated on the violation and despoiling of truth, on the knowledge that cynicism, weariness and fear can make people susceptible to the lies and false promises of leaders bent on unconditional power.