The right-wing politics and nationalism

The right-wing politics and nationalism

Right-wing politicians are always connected with the nationalism and another kind of things like militarism. But when we are looking at history, also left-wing movements are supporting military and being even more militaristic than right-wing governments. And as we see in the cases like uniting Germany the same politicians, who were like national heroes, turned to be the most unpopular political leaders in the history, and Helmut Kohl flees from stages in the rain of eggs. But when we are looking at the right-wing government's relationship with independence, we must remember that popularity is a volatile thing.

When the leaders of the government are telling that some nation should make union with another land, and sometimes those leaders are telling that their nations should leave those unions. This is the thing in history, and always there is some argument, what supports those decisions. And the opinion of the journalists has always colored the news about those big things. When we are thinking about the crisis and constitutional problems, we must remember one golden rule: that thing is that also constitution is how we want to read that text.

When we would think that some Great Britain flees from the European Union, we must say, that there might be people, who are willing to begin new discussions with the membership of the same union. This kind of things is typical for the politics of today. And one of the thing, what brings this kind of things in the public is that there are so few things in the world, what are giving topics for media.

One of the major things what gives breaks for military solutions in crisis is that the new nations are joining the "nuclear club", and will to get those armaments are decreasing the will to get military solutions in conflicts. The nuclear weapons have influence, that the leaders of the nations would want to discuss things more than ever before. There are many things changed in the world, and one thing is that the so-called "official press" doesn't control information anymore.

And that brings so-called faked news closer to the normal people than ever before. But one question remains on the air. Why we ever discussed how attitudes of reporters have influenced to the text, what is written about something? There has been news also in respected media which is prejudiced in purpose or without purpose. That means that when we want to believe something very hard, that thing might make us blind. We might not understand that something, what we might think as fact might be an only rumor. And do we ever dare to confess, that we are wrong?

What if something that we have believed as true proven as lie or wrong? Would we want to go to the front of people and say, "I've been wrong in 20 years"? In those cases, the question is about authority. Somehow the attitudes of the community are that elder people are always right. That thing is of course because we need to respect those people, but when they are wrong, and the case is scientifically proven, we must accept that thing.

But would we want to confess that thing to our children? That's another difficult question because that thing would turn the image what we want to give our children different. We would not be perfect anymore. In my childhood were people, who teach that adults were perfect, and they didn't make any mistakes. And in younghood, we hoped to get the same position what our parents had. But then the Internet and social media turned things.

We had the opportunity to check facts from the sources, and that made the first time possible that we were wrong in front of our children. In our younghood, the books, where were information were too high, that we couldn't take them, and suddenly we could get all the information straight from the net, and that turned us erring people. Even if we would not that our children see from the internet how children should make, and we can censor those pages by using authority, we cannot censor the homepages what are telling what is going on on Earth, or what is going on in space programs.

In the past, we could say, that we need that telephone and modem, but then we got high-speed mobile Internet, what made those excuses impossible, and that means we must say that we are right because adults are always right. And sometimes those things cause little bit embarrassing situation when our children open the homepages, where is the data, what is against our opinion.

The thing about the eavesdropping what Amazon and Google are doing

The thing about the eavesdropping what Amazon and Google are doing

The thing in this kind of eavesdropping is that Google and the other kind of actors can get every information about the people, who are using its products. And why this is so difficult question is that data, what Google and other actors are collecting is very wanted and those companies have money. The information is collected even people know about that thing and sometimes is introduced an idea, that the people will shut down their mobile devices, but that thing is impossible. 

This is the reason, why people and politicians have problems with this kind of actors because if the politician would not please Google, that thing would cause a lack of funding. So be very nice with those companies, and the way as they are working is simple, they say that people have a choice to select the product, what Google makes, or some other product. That means that the user would turn the collector of the personal data to another actor in Internet marketing, and that's it.

Of course, a politician can cooperate with Google, or somehow the artificial intelligence or the page ranker of Google would not notice the homepages of that politician. When we are thinking about the offer to choose some other search engine, we don't actually know, how many search engines are owned by Google or how many of these alternative search engines are using the results, what they take from Google. 

Google will also offer more and more services like payment tool for mobile telephones, which means that the system will control more and more data about our private life. And the private life of the people is always going thinner. And because Google has ordering position in the search engines, that means that everybody, who would not please Google can be removed from the page ranks, and this guarantees that media will be really nice to that actor, or it can register the new domains.

Algorithms and fake news are a threat to democracy

Algorithms and fake news are a threat to democracy

As I have written before the same algorithms, what are used for marketing, can be used to target the propaganda on the Internet, and this makes them a very effective tool in the wrong hands. At the begin, we have faced cases, where politicians are suspected to send the trolls to their E-mails or social media accounts.

That would seem a very nice method to grow own popularity in the eyes of normal people. So politics is a dirty game, and that means that there are many people, who would use trolls to support their candidate. The messages that are full of hate and treats are a good way to bring publicity and also give a reason to be saying nothing. If that kind of candidate would not come to political discussions the reason could be afraid that something would happen.

When we are thinking about propagandists and their way to work, we are facing really uncertain methodology, where some Internet users are collecting a really big audience by sharing some kind of entertainment stuff on the net. And then they are turning their accounts to the tool of propaganda.

The big audience is a necessary thing for propagandists

The idea of this is that when the propagandist or PSY-OP-operator would start the mission, the information what is shared will get the largest audience, what those people can get. When we are thinking about psychological operations and fake news, there are many ways to accomplish the operation.

One of the things is to use manipulated images, where are connected details, like white powder on the table, by using photo manipulation programs, like Photoshop. Another way is to capture the accounts, which are used by respected journalists. In those cases, the propagandist would try to use the information is always very simple.

Propagandists believe in strong leadership

The data, what is shared is almost every time propped up by using the position as the manager. That means that the propagandists almost every time support the strong leadership, which would give them the chance to influence only one person, and strong leaders are good targets for flatterers. In those cases pleasing the leader is easier than please many people. The thing, what we ever thought or what we ever mentioned in the courses is that also journalists have political opinions. The world is full of people, who believe things like authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Some of those people are journalists. Have you ever visited in the non-democratic country?

There is a so-called official press, and there are people, who are writing stories in those official newspapers. Those people are really problematic because they are writing a very good language, and nobody actually realizes that the information, what those people share is shared without criticism and using one-side sources. The best weapon in the hands of propagandists is the subjective truth. Also in the propaganda weapons and violence are in the big role.

Those people are using many times the images, where the people, who they support are posing with guns, and they would many times tell people that if the comments are involving too much criticism those guns would be used against people, who are criticizing the data.  Violence is a very good way to order other people to keep their mouth shut, and one of the best argument is the neighbor what has 20 million nuclear weapons, and brainwashed military force. If you will irritate the leaders of that country they will attack immediately.

When they are telling about the rapes, they are telling only rapes, what are made by foreigners. And those people are really good to use pity as the weapon. If we would go to some dictatorial country, what goes on war, we would see the bodies of children. And of course, the government tells us that they would be killed by the enemy, but what is the truth? When people are telling something, or they are ordered to do something, we must ask one question, and that is "who is given orders to that thing, and what that person has actually ordered"?

Truth is a complicated thing

The truth is a very complicated thing, and maybe some airstrikes to villages have killed civilians but were there the radio-transmitter in that village. Or was the bombed shelter used the command center? This is a very good point to think about what we see, might be different, what we want to believe. And we always want to believe, that journalists are good people. Sometimes journalists have connections even to organized crime, and that kind of things are really embarrassing.

In the world is many dictators, whose secret police controls the press, and those people are playing reporters. They always have the explanations for everything and in that kind of cases, where the journalists are working as propagandists or troll-makers, they have always a very good way to keep people silent. The thing is that they have their own personal experience with that kind of crimes, and that would be a good way to make people silent.

How the position of the observation obfuscates people?

How the position of the observation obfuscates people?

Havis Amanda statue Helsinki
(Wikipedia)

Usual can be extraordinary

Thinking is the thing, what we should practice very hard, and in fact, we should confess that we don't know everything. What we think as the regular and common thing might be very extraordinary. And while we are practicing thinking we must try to find another side of the things. There is always something good in everything in the world, and there are many ways to see things. Let me explain a little bit about this thing. Normal people think that fishes are swimming in the water, but why don't we try to think something extraordinary, and try to think that fish is in some certain place and it would move water around it. That would mean that the fish is a stable object, what is laying in the water, what flows around it.

This situation is true in some places, like fast flowing rivers, where the fishes are at a certain place, and water goes around it. This case would be seen very often in nature, but there is one thing, what we don't actually think, and that is that only the little part of the water on the Earth is in the rapids. That means this is a very unusual situation if we would compare it with the conditions, where most of the water is on the Earth. The probability of this phenomenon can be calculated as an example by division the area of the rivers by area, what is covered by water.

We could take some other quantities of this calculation, and one is the number of water molecules, what is found in the flowing water systems and division them with the number of all water molecules on Earth. And then we can start to ask, should we take clouds in the number of water molecules. And is rain flowing or stable water, which is a very important question, if we would want to write a little bit longer text. But as you see, there are many people, who don't want to do that, so let the thing be. There are many things, which are fascinating and impress people, but what is away from everyday life.

The position of the observation can obfuscate people

Let's take another example. If we would go to walk in the evening of May Day, we would think that every people, who would walk in the city are some kind of students. That is visible especially in the Helsinki, and near the statue of Havis Amanda. Every year tradition is that the students would put the graduation cap on the head of that statue. In that situation, we are surrounded by the students, and we might think that every person in the Helsinki Metropolis area is a student, who studies in the university or some other higher education institutes.

But the Havis Amanda statue is only one position in the city. We might go somewhere else, and then we might understand that something obfuscates us. This thing is called the obfuscation of the probability. If we would go to some city, and wind up in the University campus, we might meet many doctors and professors but are those people actually the typical samples of the normal people, who are living in the city? This thing would interest the politicians, who would make decisions about taxes and other things, and the most important thing in the work of politicians is to please the biggest group of people because that this guarantees the votes.

And the pleasing of the majority would cause a collapse in next elections if the promises that were given during the campaign have been broken. The high position allows making many decisions, but that position would also make possible to make many mistakes. This is the problem in the position of the directors. If the person would make decisions, what causes problems there could be nobody, who will give advice, and that would cause collapse. And in those cases, the mistake is made by that certain director, who would kick off or if that person owns the company would that kind of the wrong decision cause the bankruptcy. So if the person would have too much power, there is a risk to make wrong decisions, what will cause the destruction of the company. This is the writing for the morning.