Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison

podcast. Today, both a hopeful and a chilling look at Big Tech Control. Also, how do you

measure happiness?

What a week Elon Musk really did take over Twitter and he started things off by fire

wearing three of its top officials. There's no telling where all of this leads, but as one

person tweeted out in the midst of the transition, at least we have tonight, right? This stands

to be one of the biggest game changers, I think, in the modern war over information and

propaganda that I really think became a global war in the 2015 time period with Donald Trump

entering the political stage and Democrats and some Republicans as well. Extremely fearful

of him coming in as an outsider, outside their money system, outside the decisions that

they controlled, and the bad guys have clearly been winning and controlling so much. Well,

it takes time for the true grassroots to organize and fight back against all of the well-funded

and well-executed propaganda and propagandists, so it's taken some time, but I do think we're

seeing a bit of a turnaround of sorts. What is the biggest change that may come with

Twitter? Well, I think if things work out as they should, then it will lead to a more

realistic reflection of society and culture. Instead of the manipulated landscape where

we're made to believe that the fringe is the majority, the majority is the fringe, the

fringe will once again be seen as the fringe and the rest of it as, well, the rest of it.

This is not to say that the majority should dismiss or not tolerate or hate the views

of minorities or the fringe or others. I'm simply pointing out, as I've written in my

books, that the main goal of all those trying to control our information is to give people

the impression that they are an outlier when they're not, to make them or to make you

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