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RE: Global sentiment analysis - public sentiment as the invisible hand behind democracy and how it relates to DPOS
@dana-edwards Unfortunately public sentiment is easily shaped and manipulated through television. Most people would blindly trust and believe the news anchorman without doing any research for themselves. ''If it's on the news, then it must be true''.
Public sentiment can be manipulated with a variety of techniques and used to promote political agendas and ideology. Following a leader blindly can become problematic because as soon as people feel they can trust their leader, they stop doubting them and fully surrender to their will.
Significant point raised.
And also through blogs, which should show you exactly the risk I mean with DPOS.
@dana-edwards I was not familiar with the DPOS system prior to reading your work and I'm thankful for you taking the time to raise awareness. I absorb information all day like a sponge, however one can always miss valuable info on the web; it's huge.
The risk with DPOS or similar protocols is that it resembles politics as you rightly pointed out. "The crowd by itself is not wise and does not research deeply into matters and for this reason the media has extreme influence.'' Absolutely agreed. Politics. And that's an easy way to control the masses. Divide them, teach them to hate people with different views. You need them divided in different groups thinking each other is the real enemy.
But again, all this mess stems from the fact that the masses are ignorant and refuse to educate themselves. They refuse to ''waste'' time researching. They're too busy watching tv shows and games.
In other words, consent is manufactured, like Noam Chomsky says, which makes the whole 'democracy' thing rather null.