The Politics of Noise

The Politics of Noise
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Noise is content free or, more precisely, has no useful content. Noise is a distraction. It is annoying. It creates anxiety. It keeps us from doing useful things. The Fake President and his chums are cranking out an appalling amount of noise.

If we allow ourselves to become immersed in the noise, we LOSE. The so-called “fake media” ceases being fake when it stops amplifying the noise. They must stop reporting noise as if there were any content within. Print would-be journalists can usually summarize a day at the White House in a single word: NOISE. Those with audio connections can easily generate NOISE (feedback on a random sound generator should suffice). Video types can do likewise with random video generators (loud, cluttered, ugly, abrasive, abusive, exhausting, domineering ...). For their audiences’ sake, these presentations should be relatively brief, followed by an equally brief summary of the only truly meaningful story: the specific lies which will directly diminish the lives of their audiences.

With all the time saved thereby, these would-be journalists can journey out into the real world where the aggressive ignorance and incompetence of this Fake President-and-Fellow-Noisemakers have serious and very real consequences. This is not a left-right/conservative-liberal issue. This is about the destructive power of NOISE versus the constructive powers of those of us who inhabit a real, tangible, consequential world. Study that. Think about that. Report that.

Stop amplifying the noise. And stop listening to it.

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