If you want the truth, don't follow the buzz

Something I noticed just now on my cruising around Free Republic.  It is kind of the same thing that I noticed back in 2008 when Obama was running for President.  It's the "buzz".  The buzz defined here is where all the people seem to be and what they are talking about.

The "bots" are controlling the buzz counters.  This buzz counters will tell you where the buzz is.  Okay, let me explain.  If you look at Free Republic, you'll notice how much buzz there is by the comment count.  If there's a lot of comments, that means a lot of buzz.  Glenn Reynolds started using a type of buzz meter on his blog in the last several months.  Now, the thing is this: back in 2008 when I wrote something critical or at variance to the what the "bots" wanted to control, I got a lot of negative feedback.  I took it as an attempt to discredit me.  The thing is that the truth was not in the buzz, but away from the buzz.  The controllers of the buzz didn't want anybody to see the truth, so they guided you away from the truth by supporting anything and everything that increased the buzz in the opposite direction.

The buzz control is keeping you in conventional wisdom mode.  That's a problem because the conventional wisdom is the problem and not the solution.  We have to go outside the box for solutions, but the buzz meisters are keeping us squarely in the buzz zone.  You have to challenge the conventional wisdom, but you can't if you are enslaved by the buzz.  Don't follow the buzz, if you are interested in the truth.