And so it goes for all of history
I mean, I haven’t been alive for all of history unless the self-centered universe is a thing.
I was thinking more along the lines of someone in 1810 thinking the same thing you think about the internet for, like the French Revolution
only for the intellectually diverse
Now that’s a new interesting insult 😁
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So I’ve always felt this way about video games.
Can you imagine a kids first Mario game being Mario Wonder? That’s a twist on Mario games, it’s not the base Mario!? They won’t understand what makes it an interesting new game!
But the thing is, it’s fine. Everything new is old. Plus it’s the Internet, it’s impossible to actually sort out everything.
Like, what is Roblox? I know it’s some online game. Then I saw John Green play Roblox with his daughter. It was a dress up simulator. That’s Roblox?
Or how about the song Gangnam Style? I remember when that reached 1 billion views on YouTube. That was a moment. But then remember Despacito? When I first heard that song it was already at 1.2 billion views. How could I clearly remember the first billion views video, but completely miss it happening again?
Think about the entirety of history that happened before you. How did you sort that out?
The way things are going, physical media will be a thing of the past, from records to DVDs to Video game cartridges, our entire existence has revolved around physical media, but people went without for thousands of years before us, and people will go without after us. We are a very unique blip in history.
The mediaiferous epoch.
I get the basic gist, but can you elaborate on this please:
it’s crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.
Sort what out? Learn the history of the internet? Why wouldn’t they?
A lot has happened. A lot you can never experience again. All things that teach you about the nature of a giant network like this. The types of groups that form. The types of culture. Things to watch out for. Things to question.
As another pointed out, some will come to understand but most will just tend to believe this iteration of the internet is how it’s always been.
You’re just describing reality. Certainly not specific to the internet.
I feel like there’s a crazy number of people who have disassociated from clear pictures of what reality is. Like most of the people who keep talking about “this timeline”, as if this is just some story that is happening to someone else.
I’ve always taken the “timeline” stuff to be a reference to multiverse theory, a metaphysical concept which suggests that the universe exists on an infinite number of parallel realities which can be split, merged and maybe even jumped between.
I’m often guilty of giving the benefit of the doubt by default though, so you may be right and those people’s brains are just cooked.
This is an interesting thought.
Being chronically online does kind of break your perception reality doesn’t it?
I think I get what you mean; history will have dates and numbers but little narrative. OTOH this is recent and most people are still alive, and, you know, we have the internet, so write about it in blogs and on social media, lest we forget!
“Wait, explain how Neopets was Scientology again?”
“What was the purpose of the hamster dance?"
Geocities?
Well, ideally that’s what parents are supposed to help with. But it seems a lot of parents would rather have legislation pushed that make it so they don’t have to actually parent their own fuckin kid.
Narrative…?
Well, you see kiddo, it all started with the Eternal September and it’s been downhill ever since. Also your music is too loud and stay off my lawn.
Believe it or not, there used to be a time when companies weren’t invading every part of your life with ads.
Ads were 6 minutes of garbage between TV, and between the pages of magazines and newspapers.
People would talk to each other on the phone. No ads. Mark their calanders to get together if they felt like it. No ads. Then actually meet up. Some ads.
Now, when you talk to anyone you know on Facebook? Ads. Any social media? Ads. Opening Google calander? Ads. Twitter? The person you’re talking to is an bot /ad. I don’t even have to be watching an actual TV show now to be served ads on my TV. Just turning it on gives me an ad.
These ads are from organizations trying to spin you a narrative urging you to give them money. The strategies they use for this are fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Things like: “Don’t miss out on that Lububu!” “Make sure to book your tickets for the movie opening next week!” “Make sure to buy this pillow before liberals take it from you.”
People now believe these narratives simply because they’ve been shoved into every aspect of our lives via social media.
These ads, collectively, are not something that ever existed in any society to the amount they do now. So it’s absolutley no surprise that the “narrative” these ads are telling us is completely warping people’s minds.
People still think Fox News is news. Simply because that’s how it’s advertised.
I’m not sure that’s what they meant, but OK
