Never mind all the Googles of this world; the government is the OG information economy, and it *eats* anybody's information economy lunch all day every day.
Prog media tries to out-flank with emotion economy.
What is the resourceful dissident to do?
I suppose government creating a classified document is, in information economy, an analog to minting a financial instrument. Gives natural explanation to why such inflation of classified information. FOIA is, in a funny way, *direct transfers*, usually to friendly NGOs.
>what is the resourceful dissident to do?
There are many things the government inherently sucks at. For sake of example, consider *leadership*: obviously not a meta-stable thing for the government to run. And it's lightly taxed.
Is there "leadership economy"? Can there be one?
To bolster my case of the information economy state / emotion economy news:
1/ A couple days ago Pfizer made this fail meme.
Why did their marketoids make such a grave mis-understanding?
Two theories. Let's investigate.
2/ The template: "Running Away Balloon".
Note the emotions are fairly unambiguous: a man tries joyously to get ahold of a nice ball; a pink monster forcibly stops him causing stress to the man.
3/ The first panel clearly shows the emotions: desirable ball, joyous & hopeful man moving forward.
The second panel happens rapidly & unexpectedly - shows the moment the emotions *turn* to worry. The pink monster was *an internal monster*, stopping the man's improvement.
1/ rise of experts as symptom of breakdown of societal structures.
for subjects too large, or too long running for one person to reasonably observe, we used to have societal structures to hold memory and form opinions.
now that's offloaded onto experts for hire.
2/ we end up nonsense such as certain draconian measures in the pandemic, varying climate change predictions that always point to one and same solution, and topsy-turvy energy sector policy.
and we are told "only experts can form opinions on those".
3/ note that forcing whole society to act, expeditiously and laboriously, on plans that the society is not convinced to, is immoral and evil.
both directly, and also as creating structures & cultural norms for further such evils.