Review of Network (1976) by Chris L — 25 Jul 2018

The Network is about what happens when things for the public benefit are thrust into the private sector. In a world where information has to compete with entertainment, the news has to resort to sensationalism preying only on our greatest fears.

But the greatest fear is that fear will always sell more than understanding. As a population becomes more distratcted appealing to fear becomes only way to sell understanding. When intrinsicly motivated: news reports the truth.

When extrinsicly motivated: news fuses with entrainment and becomes sensationalism. When the news becomes sensationalism the truth becomes sensational. In the political unrest that follows from the confusion from disinformation and seperation of the classes the idea of socialism becomes a product that the elite can sell and so long as it is allowed to be sold to the masses the buyers will be reminded of who it profiting from it.

Because nations don't really have political parties only companies parading as public organizations. Are the companies a product of what we value or are our values a product of the corperations' agenda? Corperations don't even rely on consumer feedback anymore all they care about is stock holders and all the stock holders care about it money.

If money can be made how it effects the consumer won't even be accounted for, the whole way the world is organized will be determined by algorithms no longer tethered to this reality for the purpose they were created.

Companies are like neurons trying to find work to do and this loop our economy is trapped in is the equivelant of drug addiction, completely stimulated without the stimulator the neuron's were built to sense.

Maybe neurons never sensed anything at all. Maybe there is nothing real to sense. All that seems real is just familiar, just an echo of an echo of an echo and the only way we can make sense of ourselves at all is by hearing the echo bounce against us.

Or maybe we can detach ourselves from bottom lines, from expectations, from being controlled by fear and hate, from pressures to conform, to observe ourselves for what we are and reality for what it is.

Then once we have come to our senses we can shout into the void "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" and maybe someone else might hear that echo bounce against them.