https://x.com/IRanalyst/status/2021081384027357617
What Australia's political and media elites are slowly realising is that outside their hermetically-sealed echo-bubble, the world has changed.
They have lost control of the narratives. And there is no going back.
People have learnt to circumvent the information and communication gatekeepers who previously maintained "mainstream" orthodoxy. It’s not just that the public has become more politically aware. They are now in a much better position to see how their thoughts have been manipulated.
Legacy media - newspapers, radio and TV - are increasingly unpopular and unprofitable. They have been overtaken by blogs, social media, micro-media and online streaming services.
The opportunities for indoctrination by elites are much less effective now because the parameters which determined legitimate thinkable thought have been blown away by these alternative sources of information and communication.
This has produced a moral panic amongst elites which has taken predictable forms:
- the algorithmic censorship of online search engines and social media to steer thinking back to the “extreme centre”
- the state-enforced purchase/takeover of TV networks and social media platforms which had previously allowed the sharing of information and videos which contradicted and exposed the lies behind government narratives
- legal restrictions on speech critical of government crimes under the guise of protecting people from hate and vilification
Opinion management just isn't as easy or effective as it used to be.
Like Sisyphus, today’s elites will baste themselves in virtue by continuing to push the boulder of “commonsense” up the hill. They should recall, however, that in Greek mythology, it never reaches the top. Instead, it continues to roll back on them, a futile gesture for all of eternity.
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