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INFOWAR: how to measure it?

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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J. R. Molloy wrote on 07 05 1998:

>>Information savored by the "capitalist West" apparently has done less damage to Westerners than the
info-gossip preferred by the former Soviet empire or by the North Koreans.<<

Would you be kind enough to explain just how it is you manage to measure this damage? Is it because peoples in the former SU were more naive and subscribed to the Soviet ideology? And who - in the end of the day - did fall for the local propaganda more - 

a Westerner very sincerely asking a former Soviet if they really had electricity at home or a former Soviet who did not believe that Soviet socialist-communist agitation and moved to the West where s/he is permanently marginalised in that Western (suppose

dly) democratic world? Is it not simply a matter of convenience as Andreas Hagenbach has pointed out (also 07 05 1998)? What to do with such events as, e.g., numerous and ongoing civil conflicts in the contemporary Baltic Republics immediately after the e

nd of WW2 caused by the American propaganda in the style "Hang on there, continue fighting, we are coming to liberate you"? Do you think this is better than the direct Soviet approach like "You may like it or may dislike it, but you are going to live in t

he Communist Paradise"? Do they really strike you as similar and equally legitimate? And when did "Russian" is synonymous to "Soviet"? Is this not simply fueling an infowar during the days when the World is celebrating the end of the nastiest conflict in 

the twentieth century? Has the need for the Big Bad Wolf become so fundamental that for the sake of maintaining the idea we are ready to distort just about anything?

Regards,

Nomeda

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