META-MEDIA

TSM: A PERSPECTIVE
By: Brandon Hayes

TRUTH SPASM MEDIA: MAKING SENSE IN THE 21st CENTURY; INFLUENCING PEOPLE THROUGH PROPER (ACTIONABLE VALUE ADDED) EDUCATION; WHAT SETS US APART? TRUTH

Sensemaking in the 21st century is an animal of a different color; no, it’s a different species. Take the following quotes from Eric Weinstein from this Rebel Wisdom [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMIWVOnbo] interview “Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web,”…

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“ …breaks the forth wall but is in fact fake, so you’re talking about tertiary and eventually quaternary levels of deception. I don’t think the human mind can do much more than 4 layers of lying.”

“And that’s what happens in professional wrestling. There’s a real competition for airtime, for fame… but there’s a fake competition which is a scripted series of pretend bouts where the decisions are actually known in advance. And that’s very similar to what I see happening in war and finance, in media and particularly journalism.”

“We pretend the journalism is actually a search for truth which I find hysterically funny.”

“There’s been a monopoly effectively on narrative held by the collection of major institutional voices.”

“Identity is cheaper than labor.”

– Eric Weinstein

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… this is THE dismal state of media affairs. Scrapping the entire system would be the move if it weren’t for the infrastructure and loss baked into that course of action. So, a hostile take-over by means of embarrassing out-performance will have to suffice.

Media companies should have a positive affect and effect in the world; in order to ensure that is the case they must speak truth. What follows is a taste of something new, something lacking; the written word focused on appeals to truth not appeals to emotion; we want our writing to push you to do something, not get you to feel something. We’re here to lead; not manipulate.

We are in a bad spot: the proceeding are at an all-time low in America: getting married, having children (a kid), starting a business, and moving for a job. On the flip side; depression, anxiety, obesity, and suicide are at all-time highs.

What precedes is the dismal truth. Something no one wants to hear; but everyone should know [actual news]. It’s high time we learn to keep our eyes on the ball as a nation (we need a culture). We must end the extension of childhood, the infantilization of generations, and the hedonistic economies of the present; NOT because our pursuits are immoral (they ARE, but put that on the back-burner) but because they are destroying our peoples, objectively. Happiness can’t be at the expense of future flourishing; we must account for longer time horizons.

Traditional media companies are looking for attention; we want action. Evidence of our viewership is to manifest in betterment in the world. Our measure isn’t “eyes on” but “hands on.”

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THERE ARE ONLY THREE METHODS OF INFLUENCE.

1 — Via Negativa: Law. (Force) Here is what you may not do, and we will punish those who do otherwise.
By: Military, Judiciary, Sheriffs.

2 — Via Positiva: Propaganda (Persuade). Here is what we should and should not do — and we will undermine those who do otherwise.
By: Academics, Priests, Public Intellectuals, Media.

3 — Via Permutatio: Reciprocity (Exchange). Here is what we offer in exchange, and what you will miss out on otherwise.
By: Commerce, Entrepreneurs, Merchants, Craftsmen, Laborers”

– Curt Doolittle

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I have spent some time now diving into what I have found to be the only cogent and evolutionarily stable plan for moving American culture forward into the 21st century. The solution comes in the form of Propertarianism: the natural law of reciprocity, the sovereign human, and markets in everything. Propertarianism is a system of measurement (a methodology) to be applied to any and all human interaction. It’s a test of ethical and moral behavior. Passing the test (reciprocal) denotes a lawful action; failure marks actions as prosecutable by law.

{PROPERTARIANISM: COHESIVE AND EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.hayes.5851/posts/10103481450137921}

Propertariansim solves for the law (via negativa; what you are prohibited from doing) and for cooperation (via permutatio; what permutations of action are reciprocal); or a test of reciprocity {Solves for 2 of the three means of influence [#1 and #3}}. This leaves one facet of influence left. One hole to fill in the area of human influence as to not allow for bad ideas (lies) to seep in.

Via negativa and via permutatio set the limits and the mode of measure, respectively. What’s missing is what you ought to do, how you ought to act, and what you ought to pay attention to. And while the options are limitless [despite there being very clear limits; it’s a beautiful paradox (a set of limits that allows for infinite cooperative action)] there are clear boundaries on behavior and interaction.

This is the area Truth Spasm Media plans to operate in. Currently (like our other means of influence) our via positiva (propaganda; persuasion) arm of society is corrupt through and through; not only that but there isn’t any plan to cut out the cancer. The moral relativism permeates the academy (university, college, high and elementary schools), the church, the public intellectual sphere (products of the academy and fame [media exposure]), and the media.

{FAKE NEWS MATTERS NO LONGER: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.hayes.5851/posts/10103613843610341}

What is required now (present) due to the emergence of technologies curating news content for its users AND/OR the solidification of temperament via feedback loops and echo chambers is a decentralization of media coverage. Not by geography (although that must continue) but more importantly by perspective (viewpoint). And by perspective I don’t mean opinion; I mean devoid of an over arching narrative. The idea is to remove the story that drives news; as that story IS what distorts the individual stories or keeps them from airing in the first place.

All news that doesn’t fit with-in a preconceived narrative is forewent by news companies as it would hurt their image or interrupt the trajectory of their story. But, their story is NOT yours; it’s not even the story you need to hear; in fact hearing someone fabricate a reality so that it fits neatly into their overarching framework is damaging to your perception of this place, especially when the story is low key fiction (cherry-picked truth).

We ought to be decentralizing media (news) to allow for high variance journalism with a knack for getting at the truth. And that’s what we’re up to.

There are a new set of sense-makers emerging from the information laden media landscape because it is becoming harder and harder to decipher what is true, half true, fake news, and/or outright fabrication (lies) by taking in only the typical (traditional) media sources [mostly because they are lying liars with a story to push]. We plan on amplifying and contributing in a large way to these new sense-makers and their sense making apparatus’.

Truth Spasm Media {TSM} will focus on dissemination of value-added information whilst concentrating on actionable items for its listenership. We believe you ought to be better (be able to DO better) for listening [reading, watching]; this means we have to fulfill what it means to facilitate learning. We are looking to offer you perspectives and tools so that you (we) all may grow.