“We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
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Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.
People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.
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Introduction to the Kremlin media techniques of year 2014
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Peter Pomerantsev September 9, 2014: Russia and the Menace of Unreality. How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare
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Adam Curtis, BBC, December 31, 2014: On The "Contradictory Vaudeville" Of Post-Modern Politics - "What this film is going to suggest is that that defeatist response has become a central part of a new system of political control. And to understand how this is happening, you have to look to Russia, to a man called Vladislav Surkov, who is a hero of our time. Surkov is one of President Putin's advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way."
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Book reading from December 5, 2014 on the subject by Peter Pomerantsev
You should rewrite your entire post in a less terminally online way of speaking
You should rewrite your entire post in a less terminally online way of speaking
BigFig: I literally work outside every day and talk to people from all walks of life thank you very much. Be careful in your glass house there Alice, I’ve seen the dumb shit you’ve posted around Lemmy before.
You sound like you don't like people who link articles and quote books. Did you read any of the linked articles, BigFig? Or do you just use insult shit-talk to win debates on social media like Donald Trump does. Who talks to lots of people and is not "terminally online" at his golf course outings all the time.
You reply nothing on the subjects of airlines, China, USA - Russian Surkov information warfare, all your replies are just insult shit-talk about how people communicate on Lemmy.
Do you have a literacy problem and it hurts your egomania when you encounter words in a style other than your own communications fashion, BigFig? You surely have a dehumanization and hate problem, I already responded to you on that.
REMINDER on Context of the posting: Boeing begins flying back planes refused by Chinese airlines << "Clown Population" thinks this is all hilarious and absurd comedy, surreal humor, does not grasp Russian Surkov information warfare
Which you have entirely avoided.
So you're not faulting the overt and deliberate destruction of American integrity, liberty, democracy and justice, but the responses to that deliberate destruction?
So essentially victim-blaming on a national scale?
So you’re not faulting the overt and deliberate destruction of American integrity, liberty, democracy and justice
I'm blaming Surkov, do you know who Surkov is? The title of the posting clearly says "does not grasp Russian Surkov information warfare"
So essentially victim-blaming on a national scale?
If a hostile nation, Russia, invades the USA - and you do nothing to defend, do you think they don't deserve responsibility? The "Putin Media Invasion" by the Russian "Internet Research Agency" starting in March 2013 did just that.
on a national scale?
I'd also say pretty much all of NATO being targeted, not just "national scale" like you imply.
What Cambridge Analytica unleashed in March 2013 is harmful to all the world, it is monomyth religion patterns alternate-reality based, but void of compassion and love components (weaponized worse than any classical monomyth religions / alternate reality). The victims are the entire Earth, all the people in the world. USA is the front-line because it was the most meme addicted and consuming of social media content and fiction HDTV news media content, given the origin of almost all social media technology is in the USA in 2013 when this first started.
Make no mistake, the impact is global. Humanity is in a race to the bottom of self-centered tribalism if people are not taught media ecology and the menace of unreality / alternate reality thinking. A massive global reformation of education and morality teaching is essentially required.
P.S. Excuse my writing, I'm exhausted this evening.
if people are not taught media ecology and the menace of unreality / alternate reality thinking.
At least this is an improvement on condemning them for not automaticallyvalready knowing what it is or how to deal with it.
But you're srill neatly avoiding mention of the individual actors who are responsible for the social conditions in whic this menace thrives.
Confident, contented people don't buy snake oil - only unhappy, frightened, desperate people do.
At least this is an improvement on condemning them
Who is the "them" you are referring to. You keep saying "nation" and won't name the nation. I've named Russia, and China and the USA are the airlines. Can you be more specific?
Confident, contented people don’t buy snake oil - only unhappy, frightened, desperate people do.
What is "snake oil"?
only unhappy, frightened, desperate people do
Are you describing China who is returning the airplanes? Are you describing the USA? Are you describing Sukrov and Russia?
Confident, contented people don’t buy snake oil
Is that because they have everything they need and don't purchase anything at all?
avoiding mention of the individual actors who are responsible
I mentioned Surkov by name. that's an individual actor. What are you suggesting here?
for the social conditions in whic this menace thrives.
The clergy of religions. They create a social condition of people believing in unreality. Is that what you are referencing?
Did you see what she was wearing though? She was practically begging for it!