positive feedback loop : the media sucks eggs

the more the media emphasises, hypes and epidemi -ises, the number of young men carrying and prepared to use knives, the more non carrying young men will risk assess whether they should indeed carry one.

media is presently quoting a rise in knife crime of something like 70 percent in the last year or so - look it up if you want the details. a look at the amount of coverage in media in the last tyear or so concedrning high profile knife crime might give some interesting correlation. however i concede two things, that the problem is here now, so the horse has bolted somewhat, and that there are many factors involved, not just the mainstrem media concern/promotion of the perhaps meme.

differently

the more media shows images of rioting - wherever in the world
- the more are recruited by the iconography.

consider this as an example:

a police van in england looks like a police van in another country,
[well it is clearly identifiable as a police van]
by selecting the particular series of images where the symbol [police van] is attacked
- again wherever in the world, and under any political or social situation,
the more the solidity and respect for the symbol is reduced
by the visual/ emotional semantic.

the above example makes no reference to differential loyalty mosaics
due impart to immigration and settlement - however this is often an extra influence.


consider this:

sub-cultural motif and ownership of created history.

last year riots in france
this year mr. trevor philips, with the amplification of media, introduces the word riot into the public discourse, just before the anniversary [ yes anniversary] in relation to britain, a little hullabaloo and many are discussing it - even one spokesman from a villified moslem group [cant remember their name] however, he was admonished in no uncertain terms by the media [perhaps for gatecrashing the positioning ... see below].... an idea, as yet unmarried to a brand, has entered the dominant discourse.

two things:

america and britain are not going to let france have this sub/cultural event to themselves, as the french cannot be allowed to have sole ownership of the iconic cultural value...either of the event, possible repressive aftermath or possible marketable cultural sea change in the "host" country approach to any resolved social issues resulting from aftermath. also, in a global environment of mosaic individual identities, the issues have to be modelled/ modularly integrated according to each nations percieved different traditions and incorporated into nation specific subcultural narrative with some common themes [- after all it, will export.] - breaking the potential fall.

mr. philips programming trigger - and i make no judgement of his character or motive - is a clever move/positioning - hedging important concern and potential prescience -a voice to be listened to- regardless of whether any events take or took place in the uk or not.

personally, with the timing, i think it was a bit naughty.

- realitystructure