{"id":3393,"date":"2016-11-10T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2024-01-28T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:04:37","slug":"elections-internet-power-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/elections-internet-power-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections, the Internet, and the Power of Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again, the struggle over the Power of Narrative has been laid bare \u2013 just as it was in the 1530s and countless other times in history. Once again, a colluding establishment had decided to tell a unified story as The Truth, only to be shattered by new communications technology revealing the collusion and a set of alternative, unapproved talking points. This has happened before, and this will happen again, and it is the biggest power shift that can happen in society \u2013 far greater than an election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elections are ultimately about violence. Since the Treaty of Westphalia<\/a> in 1648, far predating modern democracy, states have taken upon themselves to enforce a certain set of rules on their population \u2013 with violence, if need be. The territorial governments under the Treaty of Westphalia \u2013 loosely what we call \u201ccountries\u201d today \u2013 therefore have a monopoly on exercising lawful violence<\/em> against bad people. This mechanism remains with modern voting, which therefore becomes an indirect way of wielding violence against those bad people.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is \u2013 and has always been \u2013 the ultimate power in society to be able to tell who the good people and the bad people are. We call this the Power of Narrative: being the storyteller and the ultimate arbiter of truth from lie. If you can tell the electorate who the bad people are, you will cause the electorate to wield their indirect violence against those you declared bad.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I give people the thought experiment of what they\u2019d do if they could write all the world\u2019s news for a week, with the premise that it would be accepted as unconditionally true. What would they write, what would they make happen? Some people think in terms of being famous, others in terms of getting rich. That\u2019s missing the point. If you\u2019re holding the Power of Narrative, you don\u2019t need<\/em> money ever again in your entire life; you could literally be a walking god among men, at least as far as they\u2019re concerned. The Power of Narrative, the ability to tell other people what is true and false, that\u2019s the greatest power that has ever existed in any society of people, from savannah-tribe size and up.<\/p>\n

When you can tell somebody it\u2019s in their best interest to give you something or do something for you, and they believe it, they\u2019ll walk away happier for doing so. The Power of Narrative is profound.<\/p>\n

The established newsmedia genuinely believe they still hold this power, like they did fifty years ago. They had it before the Internet. They\u2019re built, constructed, and defined around an institutional belief that they hold the Power of Narrative, and they are institutionally incapable of unlearning holding that power. Therefore, when the established newsmedia paints a coherent, unified picture, and something inconsistent with that unified picture happens in the world, the established newsmedia believe the world is broken.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Internet has already changed everything, and the established media have no idea just how deep the rabbit hole goes. The web is not another type of brochure.<\/p>\n

All this has happened before, with the printing press, in 1453-1648 (ending with the peace terms laid out in said Treaty of Westphalia). Therefore, we can learn something from what happened last time around.<\/p>\n

That time, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on making books, because all books were copied by hand in monasteries. Also, all books were in Latin, which only the clergy could read. Therefore, all information distribution was interpreted by the local clergy, since it was distributed in Latin, and therefore, the Church had a complete Power of Narrative.<\/p>\n

This Power of Narrative was broken by a chain of events: the Gutenberg printing press in 1453 which combined the four previous inventions of cheap rag paper, metal movable type, oil-based ink, and the squeeze press; Martin Luther\u2019s protest against the abuse in the Catholic Church of their Power of Narrative (they were using it to sell<\/em> salvation in order to raise funds) and Luther\u2019s subsequent banishment from Catholic lands; and last, the same Luther\u2019s printing of bibles<\/a> in German and French.<\/p>\n

That last event in the chain \u2013 printing bibles in translation, in non-Latin versions \u2013 led to over a century of civil war<\/a> in Europe, ending with the Treaty of Westphalia, which established (among other things) that every country had the right to set its own terms for law and order, enforcing this law using local police, without interference from others \u2013 a principle that underlies modern elections.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what can happen when ordinary people get the power to read for themselves without an interpreting gatekeeper, when bibles were distributed in languages that people could read directly \u2013 and once they have tasted that power, they cannot unlearn it, just as the previous gatekeepers can\u2019t unlearn thinking they\u2019re still being gatekeepers, and entitled to staying<\/em> gatekeepers. This in turn, combined with the availability of the printing press, led to an explosion of printed ideas among the most ordinary people, leading to completely unauthorized ideas taking hold and challenging the status quo.<\/p>\n

So the last time the Power of Narrative was broken, and an arbiter of truth dethroned, we had over a century of civil war \u2013 a war that was about the power of telling the good people from the bad people.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t seen anything yet. The Internet is just in its infancy, and just as the Catholic Church was incapable of unlearning their gatekeeper position, so are today\u2019s media and establishment. The best parts of this struggle are yet to come.<\/p>\n

Strap in, we\u2019re in for a ride that\u2019s lasting generations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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