From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus

There is a principle in physics that any observation is influenced by the fact that the observation itself is taking place – the observation, as a communication with the observed item, influences it and thus alters the observation itself: if you put a thermometer under your armpit, the temperature of the thermometer will influence the temperature of your armpit.

In a similar way – but in a far greater degree – the faults of the observer are a chief factor in the observation and make the most of it; you may say that whatever the subject observed, the observer is always basically looking in a mirror returning him or her a summary of his or her observation faults.

Whether the aim is selling you a detergent, a weltanschauung (pompous for “overall view of the world and of existence”), or an economic gyp disguised as a political bias, the by−now−not−so−apprentice sorcerers of consensus production and exploitation have discovered the obvious at last: evaluations, choices and actions of human beings are not entirely rational.

The compared study of humanoid vulnerabilities, of the ensuing faults of democracy and of their relations is quite a subject in itself; to the purpose of seeing that we grow smarter than that, to the purpose of calling to your attention how your consensus is treacherously manipulated unbeknownst to you, how each innocent and overlooked individual weakness results in its carefully deliberate, studied and planned manipulation and exploitation to the detriment of freedom, democracy, society and people, and thus stimulating you to figure out how much is actually at stake behind such doors left naively open, I’ll concisely mention here some of them. Ah, and their labels aren’t that much important; their gists are.