"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", the very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others
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“Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?” … Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: “I am smarter than Donald Trump”, “I am smarter than Elon Musk”, “I am smarter than Russia”
I recently heard a smart guy say: there is no longer left an right in the political spectrum. The main divide nowadays is between constructive policies, that tries to solve conflicts vs destructive policies, that use hatred and division to get to their perceoved goals (i.e. power and cash)... I liked this differentiation.
main divide nowadays is between constructive policies, that tries to solve conflicts vs destructive policies, that use hatred and division to get to their perceoved goals
I agree. There is no longer "left vs. right", it's fiction vs non-fiction [email protected]
This was documented over a decade ago in year 2014:
“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox Christian fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying Jesus crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014
Theres a famous account of a dinner between Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, in which Jobs said essentially the same thing: we are not divided by Left/Right, Conservative/ Democrat, we are divided between Constructive and Destructive, and it was clear that Murdoch was on the side of Destructive.
I've been an Unafilliated Independent for my 45+ years of voting, but since reading that, I've described myself as a Constructive Independent.
Are you not doing the exact same thing with posts like this?
What is the purpose of further spreading their useless messaging?
Are you not doing the exact same thing with posts like this?
No, I'm not. I'm doing [email protected] courseware developing on public social media systems, they (the two form X media platform in the screenshot) are inside the Kremlin simulacra patterns and are unable to defend NATO against Russia. They are in severe need of education about "media ecology" and updated on the latest tactics of Putin's military.
What is the purpose of further spreading their useless messaging?
Development of cult-deprogramming education and media ecology literacy so that the entire population of the United States of America over age 11 can "get on the same page", "find common ground" in resisting the Surkov student meme warfare against NATO / USA. To try and address the long-standing conflicts in the monomyth fiction systems that have lead to world wars and terrorism. See also community: [email protected]
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you." - Banksy
"Pussy" in this context means "scaredy cat"
Liberals are bringing angry placards to Town Hall events.
Conservatives are bringing civil rights protestors to El Salvadorian oubliettes.
Conservatives are bringing civil rights protestors to El Salvadorian oubliettes.
"Conservative" is Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt... a lot people seem confused how these nations operate. Why anyone in USA would want to be like the Taliban and Kremlin... it raises serious questions as to their understanding of the current world and what kind role models they admire. Even how Elon Musk uses robots and self-driving automobiles to dominate over people. How can people on an Apple iPhone using Elon Musk's X media platform be "conserving" anything? I don't even like to use these terms "conservative" and "liberal", and I try to ask people what exact nation on Earth do you want our future to be like, what is an example of how you want the USA to be in year 2026?... you get the idea.
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“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
“Conservative” is Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt
It's crazy how ignorant this claim is.
It’s crazy how ignorant this claim is.
Can you explain why, or can you only neg on social media Lemmy platform in 7 words how anyone who doesn't understand you the same way is "crazy".
You think Donald Trump is crazy? You think Malala in Pakistan was crazy? You just throw the world around in banal little Elon Musk Twitter-length style?
how ignorant this claim is.
On a Lemmy social machine community named "Masturbatory Egoism" your electronic message reply boils down to "I'm super smart, my ego really great, but anyone who criticizes conservatives is crazy ignorant". Without one drop of education, reference, idea - just shit-talk like a shit-bird Tweet-message.
“I couldn’t understand what the Taliban were trying to do. “They are abusing our religion,” I said in interviews. “How will you accept Islam if I put a gun to your head and say Islam is the true religion? If they want every person in the world to be Muslim, why don’t they show themselves to be good Muslims first?” ― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2023
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“In America (year 1985), everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 [email protected]