But is it any different in kind to a riot in the Capital spilling out across trade routes for a century of disputes over whether or no three chapters should be included in a book?
Shit happens & spreads a lot quicker and more easily these days, I suspect, with associated consequences.
The dynamics may be the same, but there's more, faster ways of spreading the word now. People who complain about being harrassed on the interwebs seem to say it's coming from all over the world now, not just from the neighbours or people who can walk up and complain.
So which would allow a small group, or individual, to amplify a message more quickly to a broader audience: newspaper or local radio, or FB/other social media?
Not enough of THAT in online debate, either - more than fairI think we will have to disagree with each other here and shake hands.
Yes
www.theglobeandmail.com
Obviously a voice of dissent.In a desperate attempt to find underrepresented voices in Canada, the next head of Postmedia will be a member of the Irving family.
Jamie Irving named executive chairman of Postmedia, Paul Godfrey to step down
Mr. Godfrey will serve as a paid special advisor to the board and CEO Andrew MacLeod after his contract finishes at the year’s end
"Coming soon, on the next episode of "Succession" ...."In a desperate attempt to find underrepresented voices in Canada, the next head of Postmedia will be a member of the Irving family.
Jamie Irving named executive chairman of Postmedia, Paul Godfrey to step down
Mr. Godfrey will serve as a paid special advisor to the board and CEO Andrew MacLeod after his contract finishes at the year’s end
nationalpost.com
Bump
This.
“The lesson learned out of this is that early reporting is better, even if the piece of intelligence that has arrived is not a credible piece, or cannot be verified.”
PM's Security Advisor Jody Thomas before the parliamentary committee on interference.
Information about Chong was lost in broken system, intelligence adviser tells MPs
Thomas insisted the prime minister was not told about problems.
Thomas was arguing that a lot of info came across a lot of desks. But nobody highlighted it to a particular person as demanding a particular course of action.
All probably true. And a great way for somebody who does understand the implications of the information but doesn't wish to act, or wish others to act, to hide the information in plain sight.
But the key part, in my mind, relates to the often argued value of absorbing ALL AVAILABLE information and then making your own internal Scatter Diagram with Venn overlays to develop your own set of Possibles and Probables rather than waiting for someone else to do the distillation for you and establishing The Simple Truth, or worse, The Absolute Truth.
My opinion.
There are no Absolutes in this world. I can't speak to the next.
That is particularly true of Truth.
Truth is never Simple.
Truth is subjective
It is a matter of opinion.
It depends on the observer doing his/her/its own version of Boyd's OODA Cycle, Observe-Orient-Decide-Act-Observe.....
It depends first of all on what the observer observes.
That means that if the observer doesn't observe then the information not observed can't become part of the decision making process.
The non-existent observations don't enter into the orientation phase.
They don't enter into the creation of those Scatter Diagrams and Venn Diagrams.
They don't become part of the Probability and Possibility assessments.
Part of the page is blank.
And that will naturally skew the decision making process.
Which in turn will influence the action taken,
All of which is to say two things -
I want my government, ministers and deputy ministers, to spend more time Observing and Orienting than Deciding and Acting.
The carpenter's version is "Measure Twice. Cut Once."
And second, for all of us -
If you are going to rely on someone to filter the world for you be aware that you are relying on a person, a fallible person, just like you.
You are relying on their biases, biases that become stronger as they develop their own narrative of events, and biases that may evolve into an agenda.
Just like the rest of us.
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