Andrey has an interesting thought in his post. As if Trump and his team deliberately overload the information field, creating chaos and a “fog of war” to weaken resistance and break the existing order. I would like to think so too. But, on the other hand, don’t you think there’s an alternative?
Remember “Hanlon’s Razor — “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Your (and my) brain tries to impose some system on the observed chaos and come up with a logical explanation, based on the assumption that “normal people don’t behave like this, there definitely must be a plan and strategy.
But then the question is like in that Slepakov song about Gazprom — “What the %&ya if it’s not?.
There is still an alternative option. It’s called: “A monkey with a grenade trying to type a brilliant sonnet on a typewriter with a serious demeanor. And remembering the multiplication theorem of probabilities, it tries many times and often.
Theoretically, if you were to break into the homes of major politicians and start turning everything upside down, a random discovery of a bucket of drugs or something bigger would justify all the chaos in the eyes of the public — by the principle of “the victors are not judged. And by series like “Breaking Bad”, we know what to do if you’ve made a mess: make an even bigger mess. It might not work, say after turning over the fiftieth house, still no bucket. But most likely it will work if you act fast and on a large scale. True, the collateral damage might be too great, but the masses can’t calculate. They remember the victories.
Maybe it’s hard to understand us because Elon and Trump know how to go all-in, while we play it safe?
I don’t know which of these scenarios we are living in, because I can imagine a few years later there will be a media discussion post-factum about both the first scenario (a wise strategist outplayed everyone and built) and the second plan (Cock-up before conspiracy). Just pointing out “Occam’s Razor.”
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