How Democracy Will Die In Darkness
A Sunlit7 op
Sometimes procrastinating about getting something done can end up being advantageous, it doesn't happen to often but when something comes along that may enhance your ability to get it done it's a bonus point for being a lackey. I guess to put it in perspective I am all over the place consuming various different news sources on a lot of varied topics. In between reading, commenting and researching stuff my mind is just about everywhere. As such there's times these lightbulbs go off in my head, that, at least to me, puts another possible pieces of a long awaited uncompleted puzzle piece on the table. Some people would rather not my mind goes there but others relish in the thought I think of things they'd never put into that perspective. That's what happened a few weeks go when former white house press secretary Jen Psaki said:
"One of the lessons learned — a big lesson learned — was that letting the negotiations with senators dominate the public conversation was a mistake, because it made it so that disagreements about minutiae became what the public consumed instead of how pieces of legislation were going to impact people’s lives," Psaki said. "Sometimes the best things happen in the dark, away from the public."
That was in reference to the passing of the Biden administrations Inflation Reduction Act. Personally myself I know where she learned it from because I've spent the last few months lamenting on about it. Ignorance is bliss to a politician who knows how to control the public dialogue. Through controlled and staged dialogue that limits the discussion to that individuals voice, that individuals antics, that individuals hyperbole whereas the only real benefactor was democracy being done in darkness. Which is exactly what went on here during that time. They had to stage an event that was bigger than the event happening in congress. In other words he was the participant who changed the pubic discourse.
Given the major topic of that piece of legislation that sailed through congress under the cloak of darkness it wasn't the only "oh my god that's how they are fricken doing it" moment I had when I read that. I will correlate back further on to explain the connection. In the global partnerships being formed there was in the Morocco and Tunisia partnerships references to training sessions for the media on the importance of global energy transitions.
Germany’s experience shows that the media play a significant
role in the development of the energy transition. For this reason, the Energy Partnership held a workshop on the energy
transition in Morocco for Moroccan journalists.
In order to minimize issues related to public acceptance of
public acceptance of the Tunisian energy transition at the
outset, a major role is played by the communication of energy
transition issues and the engagement of civil society. In
order to foster this, the Secretariat of the Energy Partnership
organised a number of training events. Following the training
sessions on renewable energy issues for journalists the year
before, 2019 saw training courses on energy efficiency and
conventional energy sources. In addition to learning about
energy transition topics, the participants in the autumn school
spent a week together in joint activities and discussions with
one another and with representatives of the Tunisian energy
transition.
Again you can see that they fully acknowledge that civil society as a whole may be more concerned with what is ailing their country, society, or what could ail their country or society as we seen with Sri Lanka as a result of this transition. They hold training sessions with the media to predict worse consequences you should be worried about other than having adequate food or gas to drive your car to work. Now you are probably wondering how these two varied topics formed into puzzle pieces on the table for possible completion of the puzzle. It's all because of the timeframes of the phrase Democracy Dies In Darkness. It all goes back to when Bob Woodward first mentioned the phrase in 2007. It was in 2007-08 after the housing crash that the European Union started masterminding their efforts into creating a new economy based off green energy. It was in 2015 prior to Trump becoming the republican nominee that Jeff Bezos heard Bob Woodward utter those words again at a conference.
However, in November 2008, with the proposal for the European Economic Recovery Plan
(EERP), the Commission embraced a more interventionist stance that deviated from the previous
focus on regulatory measures. As stated by Commission President Barroso ‘exceptional times call
for exceptional measures’
Jeff Bezos: The post has a long sturdy reputation for providing news and information that is unparalleled analysis and insight...our position must be conveyed disruptively so that we can shake consumers out of the news as a commodity mindset. (When he bought the Washington Post in 2013)
Jeff Bezos: I think a lot of us believe this, that democracy dies in darkness, that certain institutions have a very important role in making sure that there is light. (When he put Democracy Dies in Darkness as a banner on his newspaper in 2017)
One of the problems society faces right now is an inability to disseminate parts of spoken words. In other words we only hear what we want to hear. When we start to witness the engineering of our world through interventionist means, the media conveying the news in a disruptive manner and institutions having given an essential role to play, that allows them to put limitations on our political recourse, it allows them to disrupt the pubic square, it allows them to change the dialogue and it allows them to create divisions in our solidarity.
I admit it was a real struggle how to put this in words. How could I correlate from the start of this new engineering of our world connecting it to what we are witnessing playing out today based on a mere four words. Words have consequences and if we are unable to disseminate the difference from what we only want to hear from what we should be hearing democracy will die in darkness. Mexico's participation in the global partnerships is development in decentralizing energy onto the blockchain, it will be this moment met that will enable them to disrupt our lives within minutes of dissent. Following this brief exert from the global partnership page I will engage you with what finally brought my op to fruition, what connected the beginning to what will be our tyrannical end. In the video below, at a townhall hosted by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, AOC, she sits on a stage unfazed, drinking water, breaking a beat to protesters chants (3:40) she has to go, shortly after six minutes in they shut the lights off while she sits backstage with a pissed look on her face like she can hardly wait for that kind of control.
Decentralisation and digitisation are key elements of the energy transition
and have been priorities in the Energy Partnership. The publications
produced on these topics offered food for thought in discussions with
representatives of government, private sector and civil society at expert
events.
In view of this development, the Energy Partnership helped to
fund the participation of a Mexican start-up at the BETD in Berlin
in March. In July, the Secretariat of the Energy Partnership presented its publication “Blockchain meets Energy” in Montevideo,
at the invitation of IRENA.
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