dreadnaught wrote:
dogsmilk wrote:
You are a super secret agency preparing an apocalyptic false flag against the population. Do you:
a/ Go to highly scrupulous lengths to cover all tracks and strive to ensure there is no way your cover is blown
b/ Be pretty careful but figure it'll probably all turn out ok
c/ Set up a Facebook page talking about it in advance
Sandy Hook had a facebook page.
AFAIK that boiled down to two factors
1/Somebody had an existing page they changed the name of after the event
2/The timestamps are appaerntly not always accurate.
What is interesting is that there appears to be an emergent phenomenon of Facebook being weaved into conspiracy narratives. I wuold suggest this says a lot more about people's relationship to social media and its increasing importance in people's lives - for some people it practically
is their life -than any hyopthetical conspiracies. In the same way I think the post no lpanes 'it's all a fake and everybody is an actor' phenomenon says more about people's relationship to film media than any hypothetical consipracies. This probably weaved into the interesting phenomenon stemming from people like Icke of trying to make sense of the world via the invocation of cinematic fiction - e.g. The Matrix, They Live, V for Vendetta - and the perception of 'hidden messages' and 'symbolism' in media.
This replaces what would formally have been political discourse and social criticism with a perception of the world as a reflection of fictional fantasy. Life imitiating art. It's an expression of the extent to which mass media has penetrated the psyche. The ultimate MTV generation who view the world through the media of cinema, youtube videos and social media. The representation has become the reality,.
Some sociology or psychology postgrad has got an awesome PhD waiting to happen with this shit.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the notion that some kind of ultra secret conspirators would be motivated to set up Facebook pages at all, let alone in advance is so laughably absurd it beggars belief.