The videos embedded in the article have since been taken down via copyright claim :). Makes you wonder how many people are out there sitting on viral content, unintentionally waiting for current events to make them a martyr. It's kind of a shame infowars.com is registered to Alex Dipshit, and not just because the phrase "infowars.com" is now memetic artistry, in and of itself. I hope at least one person pukes from reading that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one's ever lived through an age when this many pieces of intelligence were so weaponized. Trump's administration and the media's response have really pushed the envelope forward in this department, it's been somewhat of a quantum leap forward. I think the increasing political polarity is a symptom of our inclination to organize into a collective when we're each individually bombarded with more information than any one person can hope to sift through in a lifetime. The polarity has dialed up as the age of information marches on.
I so pulled 'em down. Sitting as happy little MP4s on my desktop. The argument has been made that never before has there been so much information - the tasty tidbit is the average American sees more information in a day than the average Reformation-era peasant saw in a lifetime. So quantitatively speaking, it's safe to say that there's more misinformation available now than ever before. At the same time, i've seen enough newspapers minimizing the damage at Pearl Harbor and similar bits of propaganda to know that you should never assume your era is special simply because you're living through it. On a related note, Jon Ronson decided to accompany a 26-year-old Alex Jones as he "infiltrated" Bohemian Grove back in 2000 for the BBC miniseries "Secret Rulers of the World." I haven't watched much of it but I love the book that came from it. Suffice it to say that Ronson is as open-minded as a rational human being can be but Jones finds the limits.