Disinformation

Nothing so certainly assures the formation, continuity and self-propagation of technologically-mediated communication systems at scale as do failures to successfully communicate. We should be less surprised that discontinuous social and political relations are in ascendance: the communications systems we inhabit are utterly dependent upon a threshold of dissonant entropy as primary mechanism of generative self-propagation. There is something of a logical inevitability to this and without maturely acknowledging it, we will find ourselves forever subject to and suffering from proliferating digital disingenuity.

It is both inconvenient and unpalatable: discontinuity in microcosm generates continuity in macrocosm, and vice versa. In anything other than the most trivially unsophisticated of instances, communications system continuity is not a function of truth or of certainty.