Democracy at a discount on the Fake News market.

The concept of fake news is now widely used to describe the state of confusion and weakness we are experiencing. Particularly in politics, everyone is referring to fake news, even those who have often been caught reproducing lies.

Isn't it curious how everyone criticises them, how everyone is against fake news, and no one admits to either relaying, using, or producing fake news? It's like the gods, or the universe is conspiring against us, and fake news are spread as a natural phenomenon, more like a disease. This problem is no new at all, everybody knows or at least everybody suspects the sad truth. Politicians use them to serve robust business, political and geopolitical interests. One would say that it's all about securing their governing power and the humiliation of their opponents. At the same time, the influence of the commercialised media grows, the real political power declines and politicians are being replaced. The political electorates are now called directors or communication specialists. It's obvious anyway, in today's parliaments there is no democratic victory but only battles for the best direction.

In practice, censorship has now given space to other techniques of hiding the truth and new methods of undermining critical thinking. Each one of us is a mobile media outlet because we not only consume but also produce fake news. We who dig the hole, fall into. We, ourselves, undermine our intelligence and eat spoon-fed food without wondering about its chemicals.

What’s the tragic result, though? All the primary and critical decisions of the world are now taken based on fake news. As Ancient Greeks used to say, whoever learns something doesn’t yet own the knowledge of it. So, we have to dig for the truth, discover knowledge and protect themselves from the yellow type. Anyhow, the right knowledge can only lead to right decisions and for the world’s shake, that can only be called a necessity.