Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?

[Ed Jewett]

We are immersed in a global pool of competing MindWars and PsyOps and "cognitive infiltration" by sovereign nations, military entities, intelligence-based covert propaganda, astroturf groups, whirling whirlitzers and "journalism in a can", few of whom will tell you straight up who they are, who employs them, etc. No one issues a playbill with dramatis personae noted on the second page [except, perhaps, places like DPF]. If your mind is not made up, or clear and capable of rigorous thought, aware of its own embedded belief structures, then just ask. A cacophony will answer to keep you further confused, which is perhaps one of its primary purposes. Concerted effort and the support of others (a self-help group for those addicted to spin and propaganda) will assist in maintaining something close to grounded sanity.