I don’t see how it would work. People tend to believe things without proof just because every little separate fact doesn’t seem to be important enouth to bother with proofs. But all those little “facts” combined might create a rather crazy overall picture. Some people detect the craziness of the conclusions but many are not. Anyway I see no reason to “unplug”.
I see it as a wall of noise and of course there would be decipherable channels but if they didn’t have the media literacy we could always point to the fact they fell off.
Social media has been a toilet for a decade, but people keep drinking the shitwater. Making it more turd flavored will do nothing.
I’m really considering to build up a small library of books on fundamentals in history, sociology and natural sciences. I see a future where everything is digital, books and all information can be altered in real time and then fascists come into power and use this infrastructure. They won’t need to burn books they can just rewrite everything.
Go find an eBay collection of the great books. Keep paper around, it will last longer after the emp’s destroy our technology.
If you had read Hannah Arendt’s work on totalitarian regimes (Origins of Totalitarianism) - focusing specifically on Nazi Germany and the USSR under Stalin - you would never think this. As she says, and I am paraphrasing here, the consequence of people always lying to you isn’t that you stop believing everything but rather that you end up capable of believing anything.
And I’m pretty sure that effect is on full display already.
Nah, they keep engaging… even harder…
Particularly as the systems get more and more sophisticated at hypnotizing
Generated science facts on YT are getting worse and more every month.
Exactly, that’s another thing that I’ve learned recently - don’t lose your shit when things seem to be falling apart - one, it’s a system much bigger than your individual control, but two, and more importantly, those things tend to self correct for the better, like action-reaction, like a wave, or ying-yang and duality of life. It’s quite liberating to see this way at the bigger picture.
