"Conspiracy theories" do not thrive because the masses are stupid; but because they are excluded

[thekingsmen]

I guess the alphabet boys are the FBI or CIA?

Yup

 

[MischievousMonkey]

FYI: JSTOR IS FREE TIL THE END OF YEAR!!!!


Sorry, I'm excited.

Yes! That's one of the few positive aspects of the covid-19 thing
I think you can read up to a 100 articles a month even without any accreditation.

Same thing with other platforms such as Project Muse (don't know if it's still the case though). They got the African Books Collective and that represents some 3 000 titles available for free. I started downloading all the pdfs that interested me towards April but I need to get back on it before it disappears lol.

On another note, that goes towards my point: why is knowledge a commodity?

 

[HarlemHottie]

On another note, that goes towards my point: why is knowledge a commodity?

Bc when you keep the ppl uneducated, there's no resistance. Majority of revolutions are started by disgruntled, but educated, bourgeoisie.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Edward Snowden:

Before 2013, the idea of mass surveillance, people knew it was possible; there were technologists and academists and people who suspected it was going on, but it was kind of a conspiracy theory because it was a suspicion. And that distance, between suspicion and fact, is everything in our democracy. That is all we have in a free society because if we can't agree on what is happening, how can we decide what we should do about it? Government in a democracy derives his legitimacy in the consent of the governents. And the biggest problem in 2013 was that consent is only meaningful if it's informed; and they lied to us.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

"Inequality in available information"


Accessibility to information not pertaining to individuals should be prevalent in an ideal democratic world.

 

[MischievousMonkey]