The Internet: Core Solution to Society's Inherent Corruption?

2009-12-19T00:48:00.000-08:00

Since the dawn of our nation’s time, all forms of media have been limited to 1-many and 1-1 communication. Information mediums used to contact consumers on a 1-many basis consist of television, newspapers, and magazines whereas 1-1 communication involves mechanisms such as telephones and fax machines. These primitive forms of media essentially formulate the coldblooded environment centralized government and big business desire in order to maintain absolute control over public thoughts and opinions. Society’s lack of an adequate mass, many-many communication system resulted in the public’s inability to converse on a grassroots level and generate valid individualistic opinions. (The term grassroots is society’s localized, residential segment of the political spectrum.)

Despite these corrupt government motivations aimed at maintaining collective public ignorance; residential grassroots activists accompanied by majority of educated members of society, now possess the key component capable of dismantling this inherently fraudulent system, the internet. Through specified technological advancements and the invention of the internet, our nation is obliviously glaring and interacting with the fragile solution to this controlling, centralized predicament we face today.

The internet, similar to previous media-based innovations, has evolved our society into a realm of social interaction many never dreamed could have existed. This revolutionary all-all, few-few, communication system acts as the fundamental groundwork regarding the transformation of everything we think we know about our government, society and the motivation behind goal attainments within those established institutions.

Introduction to Government and Societies Corrupt Structure:

2009-12-18T17:20:00.000-08:00

I just finished reading and analyzing Dan Gillmor's literary masterpiece We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. I don't read anything, ever, but needed to read this book in order to pass a Media and Society class at Lehigh University. What I feel compelled to let anybody reading this blog aware of, is the mind blowing nature, enlightening philosophies and incredible knowledge this man reveals through his writing. By NO MEANS am I trying to advertise or market this book to anyone. The entire content of this book is available for FREE, here, and short summation, here.

I feel it is my duty as a citizen of this nation to educate competent individuals on the truly corrupt and fraudulent nature of the society we live in today. I know it may be easy to consume television network media via Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS and trust their interpretation of relevant problems as truthful and credible sources , however, what if they aren't? What if through certain gatekeeping and agenda-setting theories, which I will touch on in subsequent posts, elite media sources in actuality control and influence what they want the American public to perceive as truth and consume their time thinking about. These fundamental questions released an eerie chill down my spine as the truth became increasingly clear through Gillmor’s writing. Can we say as a nation, beyond any reasonable doubt, mainstream media does not filter possible detrimental yet factual information from society in order to preserve a misinformed public opinion?

If so, any personal futuristic perceptions regarding our corrupt societal structure will be made in vain. I have formulated what I believe to be a well-educated understanding through various credible sources (such as The Zeitgeist Movement and Gillmor’s book: We the Media) of the truly fraudulent system members of our society are victimized by everyday of their lives. Through citizen journalism and increased public awareness, the purpose of this blog is to educate anyone willing to learn about our societal structures inherent tribulations and how we as individuals finally possess the power to solve these problems. Through combined efforts between remarkably intelligent activists advocating grassroots societal movements coupled with Gillmor’s intellectually stimulating We the Media, revolutionary educational tools via the internet are literally at our fingertips.

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Gregg Van Orden

Government & Societal Corruption

The Internet: Core Solution to Society's Inherent Corruption?

Introduction to Government and Societies Corrupt Structure: