I must say that this guy has a point, now that I think about it. Could this really be an excuse for the US (and it's leaders, political as well as interest groups) to deploy troops in a foreign country again? We can not be sure if this is the case, as we can not say for certain as in the case of 9/11 (there still is no hard evidence for the 9/11 actions to be a politically planned action to invade the East for oil, as far as I know). But the Kony case does have similarities, doesn't it? One of the main differences is that 9/11 came at the brink of the millenium and Kony some 11 years later. Not a huge time span there if we shine light on it from a classical perspective. But when you think about it how the world wide web has evolved in that time, we get to see the big picture, why Kony might fail before it even starts to become reality. People all over the world are connected nowadays via the web, much more so than back in 2001. The power of connectedness is obvious in the revealing of this "scam" (let us presume, for the sake of this blog post and the point I am trying to make, that it is indeed a scam) as thousand if not millions have changed their perspective on the Phony case and might have stopped another disaster from happening. As I see it, as well as David Childerlay, this is the power of today's social networks and the internet.
Is the era of manipulation on the grand scale coming to an end? I do not dare to predict it, as people will always find a way to manipulate with the masses, but one thing is for sure... we sure will make it harder for them.
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