Why the Big fuss over Fake News; misinformation wars have been going on forever
Another name for fake news is misinformation, and you can see that everywhere you go, so the fake news phenomenon is nothing new. It has just taken on a new name. Its first name was Gossip, and then it took various names over the years, that has now evolved into fake news. Everyone will be taken in by some fake news sooner or later. That is not the point; the point is your reaction; will you become emotional and overreact as the manipulators want you too. To provide a solution the manipulators first need to create a problem; the solution to fake news is going to be less freedom, and sadly many will embrace this useless solution.
If you fall for one of these stories, you should simply laugh it off. This is why we emphasise the observer’s perspective; observers do not react, they observe and then with a cool head they formulate a plan. Emotional individuals leap, and then they scream bloody murder when they find out they have landed in a pit full of vipers. Don’t take the news seriously as its Gossip on steroids for the most part. The loud mouthed lady of yesteryear has been replaced with a turbocharged mouth that has far more reach, but it can only affect you if you let it affect you. Look at the news in aggregate and focus on the trends. Don’t fixate on a story for that is like concentrating on a tree and forgetting that it is part of a forest.
All you need is common sense to see through Fake News
The problem is not fake news it is silly people who fall for pure rubbish. Public education has helped produced a generation of zombies, who can’t think for themselves, they want everything delivered in sound bites. Instead of spending a few minutes vetting these stories, these individuals assume it’s the gospel truth and then they react. This is exactly what the top players wanted; a bunch of cattle that are easy to manipulate. When you can manipulate someone you can control them
One could apply the fake news principles to the Financial markets; in fact, this is the place that weaponized fake news. No other sector goes out of its way to manipulate the masses like the Financial sector. Financial experts have been trying to scare the masses since 2013 about an impending stock market crash. Instead, the markets soared higher as we predicted they would. We went on record to state that until the masses embrace this market which they have not done, that all pullbacks should be viewed through a bullish lens.
The Drs of Doom continue to sing the same miserable song hoping for a new outcome. That sounds dangerously like the definition of insanity; doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a new outcome. One day the markets will crash, and these guys will take credit for getting it right. What they will omit is that over 90% of their calls missed the mark, by a wide margin.
