The Death of Competing Narratives Globally: Isolation of Minds
Mohamed Ahmed
Executive Director Average Mohamed Organization, Communication specialist for Republican People of Color PAC. 2020 State Department Citizen Diplomat, 2018 Global Ties Citizen Diplomat, Bush Foundation Fellow
Tik Tok faces challenges now. Sell itself parts off or face a ban in America by congress, the house just passed it today.
?There is genuine National Security Risk and interests at play. As Average Mohamed, a free speech advocate, we understand that a foreign country having that much access to our data is a risk factor. A data mining process that can be Weaponized against America. Reality is the impetus is not that alone. Already theocrats, Communism and Dictatorship ban any form of narrative that competes with their proscribed versions. Hence all social media except government approved ones highly censored means of it only allowed. We in democracies may just join them on the way there too. Just call it you guessed it, National Security now.
This age of great nation competition is one of Chaos. The dismantling of old understanding for new ones. Free Speech will be thoroughly tested in this age. For control of narrative is directly tied to the national security understanding of nations peoples. That has proven to be the Achilles heel of democracies and republics. Disinformation is king now in our democracies. Weaponized narratives are deployed by stealth and financed globally against them globally. It used to be democracies had the upper hand in narrative dissemination process. Today the shoe is on the other side of this equation with the rising arc of communism, dictatorship, and theocracies globally. The reaction is we can’t compete, so we must limit its reach into democracies and republics. India banned Tik Tok, and Nepal. Many countries limit it on government equipment and phones from Europe to Canada. There is genuine concern for national security of democracies and republics.
To force a company like Tik Tok to sell itself off to another to get control of data of narratives is just that. The sign of this age of chaos. It is everyone for himself and God for all now. Data is king now and no one collects data than social media means. What I gladly called the village idiot. Is a cash cow but in narratives it is unparalleled in knowledge of us all globally. From what makes us happy to sad to angry to disgusted. To the micro level of our minds of hopes, aspirations, and fears. Social media has a way of telling a narrative never seen before. Almost all globally use it regularly. The narratives on it are as different as our fingerprints. But some are orchestrated and synchronized thinking process well-funded and heeled by nation state means of it. Forget the harmless dance craze or challenge approaches. The politics on social media narratives is almost hand to hand combat, Battle for minds. The trenches are deep and means like an array of ideas. Infinite in distribution and reach for minds. This is my work area as Average Mohamed in promotion of Democracy and republic ways, the American way of life. To win minds against theocracy, communists and dictatorship rising arc in thinking. Promote coexistence in the face of hate of Antisemitism, islamophobia, racism, anti-Christianity and anti LGBTQI communities. Against extremism of ideological and religious nature of it. Our works speaks itself, though mom and pop scale means of it.
I will gladly tell you as will many out here that they pay for their champions using metric and asymmetrical means on social media to keep us all divided and be anti-democracy these communists, dictators, and theocrats globally. Our efforts of democracies are largely legacy media is not up to par now. For every second a new narrative emerges in minds globally. From fake ones to real ones sensitized to create animosity and hate. Then Weaponized from history to politics to religion and understanding. Any fault line we have are being used against us all in the world especially in democracies where information is free and Free Speech is king bestowed upon the Free People of the world constitution.
?Those divided are ruled now. That adage applies to minds first. Hence unity in messaging is control of narratives. That democracies lost a long time ago. The communists, dictators and theocrats allow no such thing in dissent of narrative. There is no Free Speech in their societies. Theirs is narratives shoved right to the minds of the masses without question or hesitancy. If the world bought into it, or even accepted it, an Average Mohamed would not exist to do works. We have plenty of room to compete we shout and go to work as Average Mohamed.
Tik Tok is but one means of narratives. To target it so as Americans on just national security means of understanding. Belies our efforts. The effort now is to isolate minds for narrative control mechanisms. We are becoming them for sure for survival now in somewhat nicer fashion means. This is the age of chaos now. Times they are changing fast. This process is Adapting and pivoting for survival is utmost now. In the minds of leaders in America. For this effort was voted overwhelmingly bipartisan by all American leaders in congress.
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Does National Security mean we forget the very basic essence of American ideals?
The ideal of great competition means of narratives globally. The ideals that says we shall compete. We will tolerate it Free Speech to use Free speech to compete. Average Mohamed coined “It takes an idea to defeat an idea” as our mantra. In this age of chaos. The ideas of narratives are one the west and democracies lost thanks in great part to Tik Tok globally. The world is going one way, we are going another. The divorce of globalized world understanding of narratives is here now. The world where everyone is for himself is eager to isolate minds now. The communist, dictators and theocrats do so in their countries. We are well on our way there too. To protect and project our narratives now. The world has chosen isolation of minds as a vaccine against the disease stemming from free flow of narratives globally. The death of competing narratives in the world now. It is isolationism making a huge comeback now. This is indeed like I called it, the age of CHAOS.
Is this good or bad?
Heck I am just an Average Mohamed can’t call it. All I know is that Average Mohamed is competing for minds now for the sake of our American way of Life survival of democracies. We go to all as they are not sermonizing or sanctioning. We work peacefully and nonviolently globally. Reaching out Free People of American race to Free People globally to empower in whatever form they are in governance we are done judging now, in trainings, outreach, products, and speeches for cause of God, Country, and Humanity. Using social media including Tik Tok.
Our goal and reward is friendship, resources, markets, and wallets to all our humanity to access. The counter narrative to other means deployed globally. The true means of survival of our democracy and republic now. That means minds that accept us as Americans, and we accept them all. No exception, No exclusion of any.
It is a brave new world now!
The age of chaos is here now.
America is learning survival of the fittest is the new order now, heck we the individual like Average Mohamed have been pioneers of this reality even in America. Now is the time to compete in narratives for the world. Our Average Mohamed works. If allowed equity, equality, equal opportunity, access to resources and merit we are asking for allies, friends and partners now towards that goal.
We have work to do now.