NEWS IS JUST INDUSTRIALIZED GOSSIP AND NOTHING MORE Remember, the news media mak

NEWS IS JUST INDUSTRIALIZED GOSSIP AND NOTHING MORE

Remember, the news media makes a profit from telling you outright lies that get your attention, so that they can sell advertising to commercial organizations, that profit from telling you half truths so that they can profit by getting your attention.

If you hear gossip do you believe it? Or do you reserve judgement until you’ve heard both sides of the story? As human beings we believe gossip we want to be true and we disbelieve gossip that we don’t want to be true.

This is the CHEAPEST and EASIEST way to confirm our biases. Because investigating the source and discovering what was actually said or done, is costly. We did not evolve to investigate what is true and false. We evolved to rally each other to our preferred ends by reinforcing one another’s cognitive biases, by gossiping to one another. Truth is not useful in rallying unless it is in your favor.

All ‘news’ is just ‘gossip’. All reporters are just ‘gossips’.

That’s all they are. Just as the gossips you know profit by getting attention that they seek from others. The media, the public intellectuals, the academy, the politicians, and the advertisers and marketers are just gossips.

We are governed by gossip.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine