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Information – Further Notes |
Tuesday – April 21, 2026

Information is a topic that I have brought up in the past, read "Navigating the Informational Landscape". In this post I thought about sharing some more notes and observations about information, as this is a fairly important subject, and after all we do live in a "informational society". Yes, I do agree that most modern societies are based on information and more importantly the speed of that information, but to a lesser extent the fidelity of information, which is a growing problem, read "The End of History" and "How to Disconnect from the Internet?".

    I suppose that writing this very virtual page and then posting it is a form of distribution of information, and indeed it is and I have never thought of blogging in any other way really, but also there is a difference between me and other people distributing information, read "What is News and Media?" for the purpose of relaying information to the masses. I cannot say that I am particularly a popular or influential blogger, nor would I want to be, but I do believe that people that know what they are doing, that is to say people who share information for the purpose of actually influencing people have a kind of responsibility to the fidelity of the information they share, not the their audience, as this would simply be far too impractical and in may instances quite impossible. Also, there has been a lot of talk about being critical, but being critical is also hard, and besides, I cannot say that there are many people that even know how to be critical in the first place. I suppose most people are somewhat aware of the ideological slant when it comes to newspapers, radio programs, television, etc, and some organizations will admit that they have certain political biases, especially this appears to be common with certain newspapers; I am however, not that aware of television and radio stations that are explicit with their ideological slanting, but for the most part it seems that most of these ideological differences are quite small and not really meaningful, but I will admit that I do prefer reading a newspaper that can actually be honest with their intention, but one recurring problem with certain newspapers, no names will be named, is the lack of segregation between journalists and columnists of different kinds, and this certainly helps add to that noise floor. Besides, is it not silly for a newspaper, or rather would it not be silly for a newspaper to pretend as if they did not hold certain convictions more dare than others? Well, this seems to be somewhat of a common feature in America, but that is a topic well outside the scope of this presentation.

    I did also write, recently and previously linked to, about Shortwave Radio, and that medium in particular can be helpful for the soul seeking more diverse information about the world, as, again newspapers tend to be ideological in their reporting of information, but programming on radio, shortwave or not, is not and cannot possibly be "neutral", as if such a thing was possible, but I suppose this idea that there can be such a thing as neutral information is quite in keeping with much of the sensible mentality of modern men: we are, of course, here dealing with a kind of narrowing of the horizon, and anything that is not almost immediate and corporeal has to be understood as a kind of "mysticism", which goes for information as well, a kind of stripping information of its essence. So, there can actually be such a thing as "qualified information", something that is very much lacking in the modern world, but something that most ancients had a keen understanding of, read "Hierarchy". See, the problem here, again, is that the assumption is that substance is the only marker of some kind of quality, and that means that the modern process of gathering information is much too obsessed with draining the informational substance, rather than retaining the true fidelity of information, this is why historians, generally, tend to be more qualified than journalist, and this shows, especially these days with the abundance of lazy and cheap journalism going around. Also, sentimentalism! Indeed, how much about sharing information is actually about even the substance? Today, I am unsure if most information actually contains substance; if in the past information at least had substance and structure, while still lacking essence, information today appears to be nothing but hysteria indistinguishable from the politics of "ordinary life", and this process of degeneration has occurred just within the last couple of decades. In this regard, I suppose, the common argument is that people simply like outrage on the one hand and good feelings on the other hand, but again all of these tendencies points towards what I covered in "The End of History", already linked to above, and "The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga". So, information today is actually even less about substance and more about outrage – an outrage machine. Lastly on the substance of information, look for the most part journalists and people who perpetuate information tend to seek to uphold the established order, the material order, and for them information is a tool; just like anything "useful" information has to serve some functional and material purpose.

    Then there is a kind of investigative aspect of gathering information in particular, and I agree here that there are certain ethical aspects to the business. For instance: should a journalist work to protect politicians? Well, for the most part it seems that most people, at any rate within the Imperial Core, assume that journalists should "hold the powerful to account", and I suppose this makes sense within the chaos of a humanist and democratic order, and this is also a further consequence of the concept of free inquiry, something quite necessary within democracies. But have these people ever asked themselves why this is needed? If they have, they usually arrive at the wrong conclusion: no, within the harmony of proper, qualified, and skillful application of power, read "Temporal Power", there would be order, and people seeking information would know; they would know through knowledge – real knowledge. Indeed, information is and was always about knowledge, and the hierarchical nature of information does not permit everyone to possess information, based on true knowledge, because you may not possess something that you cannot understand, unless of course you believe in the psychoanalysts, and indeed much of what is today considered information is nothing more than psychoanalytical babble.

Reginald Drax – April 21, 2026.