“In/formation” (there’s a pun there)… implication… suspicions… and ‘maybe’… long ago became weaponized – particularly within the contexts of electronic media. Nearly none of us are trained to recognize or respond to these threats, so, for the most part, we tend to both succumb to and transmit them. We haven’t yet developed the forms of social and critical intelligence that would empower us to resist or transform the context we’re now participating in.

Thus we are essentially ‘drafted by choice’ into systems of weapons aimed at our people and future, and, thinking ourselves aware… fall prey to the “dead radio gambit”… attending and retransmitting linguistic and conceptual toxins that pretend to be antidotes… to poisons that never existed… empurposed to confuse and divide us into factions too ignorant to recognize actual threats or opportunities.

Until we learn, together, how to vet, recognize and respond intelligently… to contagions masquerading as information.