Conspiracies....

 

Conspiracies....here's mine...

I've speculated that some Saachi and Saachi level marketing guru.....

[like a William Gibsons novel character who's last jaded pleasure is fixating on the subtext of the weave of his sports jacket for a page and a half...JUST STOP IT WILLIAM...It's only vaguely clever!].....

with bottomless funds early 90's saw the internets potential to either monetize [sales] or weaponize [politics] the hitherto mainly ignored social stratum of the statistically subintelligent.

[picture an army of Gomer Pyles]

Up to this point these barely sentient folk bagged groceries and operated car washes and were protected from the greater scheme of things because they were obviously too suggestible to survive otherwise........and their families loved them.

Unfortunately they were an untapped resource and also had perfect plastic minds. They might own some of their own feelings but their thoughts were exclusively imported.....

In marketing terms they are the perfect consumer.....

So data was required...how many? ...and also politically...how can we not only identify this stratum but actively increase these numbers?.....

Various conspiracies were seeded or amplified. [flat earths a perfect example-you only have to climb a hill to debunk it] and thusly a compendium of imbeciles was collected for practical purposes.

Also an index of the gullible was identified in breadth and depth.

I believe it's ongoing and the % of people without an original thought or opinion is increasing fed by online nodes that are simply Serotonin; Dopamine; Endorphin bait that the gullible seek out and feed at mindlessly like flies on shit.

Our species is in its post rational period.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.