From Humanoid Faults to Manipulated Consensus, 12

A nice example of one of the many ways we succumb to that is those “heated” debates among puppets – pardon, among politicians: most of their time, shrewdness and energies are spent in shouting one another down and we, what do we do? We allow and condone them doing so, instead of either impeding politicians from doing so or deterring moderators from allowing it, one way or another. And so, “The puppet who screams loudest our trust is his”. And, on the other end of it, the more one is a genuine and unadulterated human being, and therefore prone to behaviour inconsistent with the stage manners we’re accustomed to consider “spontaneous normality” on the media, the more we discount him or her. And how often do we see crude people busy idolising force and, its appropriate counterpart, brutalising intelligence?
And the quantity can be served hot or cold, fast or slow: we can be overwhelmed by overload or by exhaustion.

Hot, fast overwhelming by overload exploits the bottleneck of our need of due time and attention to critically evaluate things. The trick is feeding us more than we can swallow, submerge us with a speed and amount of information above our capability to consciously receive and evaluate. The excess of input reduces our ability to critically evaluate and is hypnotic: the resulting spillage is our being hypnotized to a certain degree. You may notice how mainstream media – with art, entertainment and advertising media ranking first – specialise in this: they flood us with pointless information because they do know the excess of information reduces ability to critically evaluate – and thus leads to more passive and careless acceptance. As an “innocent” example, take notice of how cluttered and fast the scenes of movies, television and particularly music videos are today: you don’t need to resort to stop motion to realize that with such an amount of items per microsecond shown, no one is ever going to be conscious of each one of them.