Every Story Telling Us Only Part of The Truth About the War in Ukraine is an Advert, Selling us Nuclear War.
Observation
This is aimed at everyone writing about the War in Ukraine.
If you are happy to believe what only your own government and in-country newsmedia wish to tell you about the war in Ukraine, then you do not have all the information. The entire argument of the other side is being witheld from you. That is very simple logic, which can’t be logically denied, right?
So when you write a story with only part of the knowledge available, with the best will in the world, you can’t avoid not leaving out the information you’ve not been given either, right?
So your story provides only information encouraging the reader to a certain conclusion, to buy whatever it is your story is selling.
What is your story selling?
It is selling everything not stated in your story, as well as everything that is.
In fact, the most skillful / highly paid advertisers seem to know this subconsciously or otherwise, even using it to sell products and arguments by allowing folk to infer the missing information however they like.
A case in point is a Story today by Jessica Wildfire. In it she accuses someone of using this technique against her, to accuse her of writing about certain useless / valueless sensational stories.
Then she goes on to list all the important subjects she has written about, in an effort to convince us that her stories are not clickbait.
But she is hardly going to list the stories which are clickbait, or even her current rant, that seems to be she is not happy her popularity is being hit.
I responded to say all I could see was someone taking an ego-driven hissing fit, like a social media Kardashian or something, it was all about Jessica grabbing our attention when there are much more important things going on in the world.
So she banned me from her stories, as you might be able to tell from the graphic above.
I finally found a way to get clickbait cancelled from my feed.
The point is that we should be able to spot when our information is not whole, and know the consequences of using unwhole information.
In the case of the pending nuclear war in Ukraine we won’t even live to regret anything.
All of my 280 odd stories in Medium, written over five years, are part of an effort which shows by outcome why we won’t, including me, they are all part of the systems analysis of what needs to be done to fix the energy problem which lies at the root of the war in Ukraine, and all of the financial problems we are seeing, done on the fly, by the usual messy business of Systems Engineering, lots of input from comments, and the few actual mistakes made corrected as we go along, until finally we get to the conclusion of Kardashev Money with all of its technical implications and the technology and mindsets needed to support it, to enable safe, sustainable energy unlimited growth to an adult species.
If we don’t do this then we are extinct, because we have reached the end of the survivable limits of the energy we can extract from Earth. The consequences are already increasing exponentially as a hyperobject.
Nuclear war will end all posibilities of survival. A nuclear war will absolutely be the final drop-kick we deliver to nature which finishes all of us.
That outcome is what is being advertised by every story trying to argue that no nuclear war will happen, based on the limited facts known by authors who only know a small part of all of the information around the Ukraine War.
Each time they state Russia is losing, or Putin will do this or that, or whatever, whilst not actualy knowing the whole story is another argument for Nuclear War, and pushes us that little bit closer, to effectively the end of the world by our own hands.
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Indirectly Inspired by Tony Stubblebine
