Constants and Variables 127, universal cure edition
A modest proposal.

Eliminating all media will eliminate all major wars.
Eliminating all media will eliminate all major crimes.

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War: Major wars are fought to make public points. Modern US wars are fought to demonstrate our loyalty to Saudi and Israel. If the war can't make headlines, there's no point in fighting it.

There are lots of minor wars and skirmishes, especially in Africa and Latin America, which are essentially gang battles disguised as religious or ethnic disputes. The media doesn't cover these wars, so we know they will continue when the media is shut down. Constants and variables.

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Crime: Here we can be more precise, dividing crime into categories.

1. Hate hoaxes are committed PURELY for media attention, with the strong collaboration of media. They will disappear instantly.

2. "Terrorist acts" are committed by FBI and CIA to provide "problems" that need to be "solved" by increasing the power snd budget of FBI and CIA. Parkinson. If "terrorist acts" are not splashed all over the media, there's no point in committing them. FBI and CIA will have to find other ways of justifying increased budget.

3. School massacres and similar dramatic crimes are not always sponsored by FBI, but they are designed to gain publicity BY DEFINITION. If there's no glory, you can't go out in a blaze of glory.

4. As with wars, there are many low-level crimes that are NOT covered by the media. Gang battles, drug-induced thefts, drunk bar fights. These will continue.

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The dividing line is simple.

Crimes and wars that are covered in the media will stop when the media stops.

This isn't tree falls in a forest or Schrödinger, it's just supply and demand. Media is a factory that processes war and murder into eyeballs and clicks. Media needs an ever-increasing supply of war and murder because eyeballs are part of the human sensory apparatus, thus responsive only to DELTAS. Like any poison, constant input leads to increasing adaptation, requiring an ever-increasing dose to achieve the requisite result. Because media needs the raw material of violence and mayhem, media works hard to create more violence and mayhem.

You may protest... "But we NEED news." No. We don't. I already answered that objection.

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