>Hey remember how the media totally gaslit everybody about January 6th? We saw the footage and watched it live and some of the clips, remember? How about all of Summer 2020? Mostly peaceful, yet most financially damaging riots in our nation's history. Totally lies about that too right? Ever read up on primary sources talking about MLK's "peaceful protests"? What if the media narrative control has always existed, and we only see through it now because of smartphones and internet?
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@BowsacNoodle The internet has been a better tool than the Gutenberg press for breaking centralized control of narratives and information. Not just the raw facts but the ability to discuss them in large groups. We’ve managed to form an entirely new consensus more thorough than the one produced by television, and the effects are still yet to be fully felt.
@Griffith >We’ve managed to form an entirely new consensus more thorough than the one produced by television, and the effects are still yet to be fully felt.
This is why I think it's worth "red pilling the normies". Eventually they're going to stumble onto stuff like this, or at least the curious ones are. Instead of letting them get a sanitized and manipulated version, yet again, by the next gatekeepers, I'd rather they have the tools to recognize the new grift when they see it. It's okay to not understand everything or know all the answers, but recognizing lies and liars is too valuable a skill to not have.
This is why I think it's worth "red pilling the normies". Eventually they're going to stumble onto stuff like this, or at least the curious ones are. Instead of letting them get a sanitized and manipulated version, yet again, by the next gatekeepers, I'd rather they have the tools to recognize the new grift when they see it. It's okay to not understand everything or know all the answers, but recognizing lies and liars is too valuable a skill to not have.
@Griffith I'm sort of looking at stuff and wondering what's next. Has The American Experiment™ run its course, if so, what comes next? What sort of knowledge and understanding and framing should the people who will either create or raise the creators of America's successor have? We don't have the classical education of the great men who founded our country— few of us speak or read French and even fewer Latin or Greek. What should be the foundational viewpoints to keep things from getting mucked up again?
@BowsacNoodle Those didn't stop America from turning out like it did. All of the founders were educated on the classics, all of them were Christian, all of them were very smart and all of them were good intentioned, it's fair to say. They were the pinnacle of their time, they were the best men the New World had to offer and they were the product of the greatest cultural period since the Greeks. So my view is that's not enough to keep things going off course. I also don't think everything that's happened since has been bad.
Things are moving very quickly, and it's hard to describe an actions consequence as it's taking place. Just think about Musk buying Twitter, Kanye kowabunga-ing off the plantation, and Tucker interviewing Putin. Bukele retweeting wojaks making fun of his opponents. I think big gears are shifting. I think it's a "the old world is dying, the new world is struggling to be born" kind of thing. I'm not certain what the future looks like, but I think it looks a lot more like the way and the stuff we talk about. In a lot of ways I think it's going to be more digitized, and I don't just mean physically. I think there's a way of thinking which is emerging which is kind of like when people learned to read in their heads (which wasn't always a thing).
It's really hard to describe and it's going to be realized more through action than talking about it, but this is my rough outline.
Things are moving very quickly, and it's hard to describe an actions consequence as it's taking place. Just think about Musk buying Twitter, Kanye kowabunga-ing off the plantation, and Tucker interviewing Putin. Bukele retweeting wojaks making fun of his opponents. I think big gears are shifting. I think it's a "the old world is dying, the new world is struggling to be born" kind of thing. I'm not certain what the future looks like, but I think it looks a lot more like the way and the stuff we talk about. In a lot of ways I think it's going to be more digitized, and I don't just mean physically. I think there's a way of thinking which is emerging which is kind of like when people learned to read in their heads (which wasn't always a thing).
It's really hard to describe and it's going to be realized more through action than talking about it, but this is my rough outline.
@Griffith >I think there's a way of thinking which is emerging which is kind of like when people learned to read in their heads (which wasn't always a thing).
I can choose to read in my head or absorb the words without internally reading (speaking?) them, which is much much faster but less enjoyable for fiction and pleasure reading. I've heard a lot of people don't know how to turn this off.
I can choose to read in my head or absorb the words without internally reading (speaking?) them, which is much much faster but less enjoyable for fiction and pleasure reading. I've heard a lot of people don't know how to turn this off.
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> I think it's going to be more digitized, and I don't just mean physically.
> It's really hard to describe and it's going to be realized more through action than talking about it
These statements appear contradictory to me. Is there another way you can explain what you mean? Your other points sound right to me.
