A prime example is the conflict in Syria in which the establishment, despite the lack of popular support, so desperately wanted to take control of the country, that when the rebels they were funding used chemical weapons, it was then blamed on the Assad government to protect their investment and design. War is becoming much harder to justify as independent journalists have shined the light on what the powers that be never wanted anyone to see. While mainstream news is still the number one source of current world events for the masses, the tide is slowly changing as people are awakening to the fact that corporate sponsored media is mostly propaganda and half-truths at best. People are continually switching off cable news ( cable TV all together), and instead resorting to online sources. Independent media has become an increasingly popular choice for those wishing to stay truly informed, especially younger generations. Thanks solely to the Internet, the rise in independent journalism has taken off. It feeds almost all other shifts.Ģ) The Ascent of the Independent Non-Corporate Online Media It is paramount that the Internet remain an open decentralized system in which everyone can freely add and operate if this paradigm shift is to continue. The Internet is not only giving rise to an open access of information, but communication is almost instantaneous all over the world. People can now learn new skills or hear many different perspectives of the truth in mere minutes. A multitude of information is now accessible if one knows where to look. The Internet is undoubtedly giving rise to the Age of Information as people become more awake to what’s really going on in the world. Many forget that the Internet has only really been commercialized in the west since the early 1990’s and its spread across the world hasn’t even come close to peaking yet. Never in our known history has man had access to such a broad range of diverse information from all over the world at the tips of his fingers. The Internet is arguably the greatest invention in the history of man. Here are 8 signs the world is undergoing a Paradigm Shift: 1) The Power of The Internet and the Age of Information These shifts take place in many of the world’s most basic elements and redefine how life functions. Though it might appear the opposite in the corporate controlled mainstream news, it appears that the entire world is in the very early stages of a paradigm shift. A paradigm shift can literally shake a society to its core, taking it off its current path and putting it on a brand new one. Similarly, when the Industrial Revolution took place there was a complete shift in manufacturing, lifestyle, and economics. For example, when Pythagoras proposed that the Earth was round instead of flat, the foundation of science and people’s understanding of the world was completely changed. A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in approach or underlining assumptions. Browsing through history, it’s very clear that the world has undergone many monumental shifts in society that have uprooted it’s very foundation in place of new seed.
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