<nettime> To spot Wizards of Oz

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

The infrastructural grip on the human exchange reached the stage where 
there is little sense in having discourse with end points. Drones with 
smartphones grafted onto their faces have little, if anything, to say. 
They are like smart Christmas lights creating patterns that they 
individually don't even understand. Fake news about fake news. Probably 
many failed experiments to figure out the efficient ways of information 
injection. That's how you learn.

So who is the one to talk with? There is definitely a Command and 
Control Center (CCC) (one or several.) Its presence can be detected by 
the speed with which dissemination points (DPs) (TV channels, print 
media, server operators, various talking heads) synchronize the message. 
The communication between CCC and DPs is undoubtedly electronic and 
likely overlayed over the existing infrastructure.

This, of course, has all hallmarks of a conspiracy theory, so if your 
religion includes chaotically emergent phenomena and Deity of 
Complexity, you should stop reading here.

There are two interesting questions that matter: who owns CCCs and how 
is communication actually performed? Investigating actors on remote 
controls, which is where most of the discourse is, is a total waste of 
time, evidenced by exactly zero effect.

CCCs are likely manned by some subset of elite and Roman Guard, most 
likely tightly associated with various security services. These are the 
people you actually want to talk with - they are humans like the rest of 
us. But first you need to find them, and that's not trivial.

As for communications, they appear to be properly secured. There was not 
a single leak of coordination messaging. This hints that the 
communication hierarchy is exclusively populated by high pay-grade 
humans - there are probably no low-level operators in the chain. It may 
make sense to see what kind of personal communication equipment do 
high-level managers of DPs carry around.

For artistic approach, see Carpenter's "They Live".
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