“how does a Yale graduate not know the difference”
Knowing and knowledge is not the crisis. The crisis of understanding in the United States of America 2025 is that thinking systems are important. Reactionary thinking, mockery thinking, one-upmanship thinking is not the same as the science way of thinking. Twitter-thinking, meme thinking, isn’t the same as science thinking.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less)” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
ok I am imagining, sounds great honestly!
I already got that sense from you, that you think JD Vance is great content to keep you entertained with hate mockery.
That’s what it all comes down to, you having fun enjoying JD Vance. That’s the very basis of his power, playing the wrestling heel (on media systems) for social media users to mock and insult - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling) - the Surkov / Surkovian governing methods. Twitter thinking, entertainment thinking, mockery thinking. JD Vance knows exactly how power works in United States of America 2025 social media society. JD Vance knows how to keep the notifications flowing over TCP/IP.
“An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth – scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, the comics and many books – might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society would it be if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?” - Carl Sagan, January 8, 1994
You are using a lot of words to say “you just like to hate JD Vance and feel good about it and not ACTUALLY do anything or pay attention to anything” and to that I don’t have a response other than to laugh in your face that you are picking this hill to die on.
Read my comment history, making easy high school level jokes at how pathetic JD Vance isn’t the only thing I focus on or care about, it is just one of the more enjoyable things I do.
No, I’m not saying that.
I’m saying you don’t understand Surkov / Surkovian information warfare, you enjoy that your nation lost to Putin and Russia since March 2013. If I’m not being blunt enough for you:
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It is clear as day you find pleasure and joy in the United States of America Total Mockery created by the Kremlin using Internet media systems since March 2013. that you find it enjoyable that there is so much hate and mockery, that you want to contribute more and more each day.
Exactly what Carl Sagan said in 1995: “The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media”
That means Lemmy.
Hey, newsflash, sometimes hate and mockery being used to tear down evil people is EXISTENTIALLY necessary to regain a peaceful, kind status quo.
Maybe you are right though, maybe I am just making this all worse…but unlike you I feel like I can actually convince people to be agitated, to want to act, my words are better at finding solidarity with average people.
Your words are a bunch of intellectual posturing and condescension to people reacting emotionally as if emotions are not a valid part of our understanding, and processing of how we understand the world.
I AM VERY angry, and when other people see that they also feel like their anger might be more valid than they have been made to feel too.
If you knew ANYTHING about political organization you would know agitation is the first step to opening up the door to change, and you would probably also just stop talking because your arguments make me want to take the other side even though many aspects of your points are right, fundamentally you have taken a position that will only push people away.
It seems like you think any expression of negative emotion is a form of losing against fascism, when the truth is much more nuanced and often very much the opposite case.
Yes, I knew this, but you are in such a state of reactionary mocking you haven’t read my last 100 posts on Lemmy, all you can do is engage reactionary thinking and reactionary mocking. Like JD Vance. Twitter-thinking. Nor have you seem to studied / understood / comprehended what Peter Pomerantsev has been publishing on the Internet since year 2011.
Of course I know this, I teach it over on:
“Hybrid War Lost” to Russia, Russia is the Political Organization
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Anger is the very basis of the Russian information warfare. Mass dehumanization via Lemmy social media, Twitter social media, Facebook social media, Reddit social media, Instagram social media, TikTok social media, etc. Hate-filled and angry.
We have a crisis of “media ecology”, the topics of Neil Postman at New York University, Marshall McLuhan of University of Toronto, among other extremely serious crisis situations.
Again, that’s the basis and outcome of the Russian information warfare that was launched on the World Wide Web Internet in March 2013.
Professional psychologists and psychiatrists worked with Russia to create 5,000 alternate reality screen games for media consumers to be constantly hate-filled, shallow, reactionary, anti-goodness, dehumanizing, and angry.
“In one experiment, CA would show people on online panels pictures of simple bar graphs about uncontroversial things (e.g., the usage rates of mobile phones or sales of a car type) and the majority would be able to read the graph correctly. However, unbeknownst to the respondents, the data behind these graphs had actually been derived from politically controversial topics, such as income inequality, climate change, or deaths from gun violence. When the labels of the same graphs were later switched to their actual controversial topic, respondents who were made angry by identity threats were more likely to misread the relabeled graphs that they had previously understood. What CA observed was that when respondents were angry, their need for complete and rational explanations was also significantly reduced. In particular, anger put people in a frame of mind in which they were more indiscriminately punitive, particularly to out-groups. They would also underestimate the risk of negative outcomes. This led CA to discover that even if a hypothetical trade war with China or Mexico meant the loss of American jobs and profits, people primed with anger would tolerate that domestic economic damage if it meant they could use a trade war to punish immigrant groups and urban liberals.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, 2019
More mocking, more insult
My message at the very top said: “The crisis of understanding in the United States of America 2025 is that thinking systems are important. Reactionary thinking, mockery thinking, one-upmanship thinking is not the same as the science way of thinking. Twitter-thinking, meme thinking, isn’t the same as science thinking”
Your “newsflash” electric message, mocking of me fits:
You keep going the high road bud, I will continue to pick whatever road I want to fight fascism and I will continue to switch roads whenever I so choose.
Further, you have a very simplified, childish view of how intellectualism works as if there is a simple continuum from bad, kneejerk thoughts to sophisticated good intellectual thoughts devoid of emotion.
IF YOU DO NOT FIGHT NOW with EMOTION and with One-Upmanship in mocking those in power, there will be no space for your precious intellectual diatribes that is just how it political power works. Speak with your heart, appeal to people’s emotions honestly and directly and mercilessly make fun of fascists in every way possible.
To see emotions as seperate from intelligence as you do is a tragically limiting way to see the beautiful potential of your own mind, maybe try socializing with others a bit more and focusing less on reading about all of these things you are referencing?
Nobody here is saying “devoid of emotion”. I love you. I think the crisis is people flocking to hate and machine dehumanization, leaving compassion and love in the dust.
I’m going to have to lock this posting, nobody here is replying in understanding of the March 2013 Russian Information warfare crisis and it’s all been reactionary mocking. I can’t keep spoon feeding you about every one of your hate-filled reactions.
The only “emotion” you prize is hate and dehumanization, just like Donald Trump is very emotional. hate-filled emotions. Russia mind-fucked you and you are programmed not to discuss Cambridge Analtyica and Russia.
Compassion and love are emotions, You think the answer to hate is more hate. Reactionary.
More mockery and insults. I see why you flock to JD Vance topics, because he too uses insults and mocking. You think compassion and literacy promotion, promoting Carl Sagan, is “childish”. In fact, you are here to message that Carl Sagan is childish. This posting was responded to by viewing it through the lens of Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, which is not childish view. But you can only seem to react, react in mocking and insults, like Donald Trump on Truth Social.
I think you don’t understand media ecology of Neil Postman and Marshall McLuhan, how Lemmy shapes your reactionary behaviors. Nor do you understand information warfare and Cambridge Analytica influence on the population and mindsets in the nation. These take patience and effort to comprehend and understand, not reactionary insult messages.
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“Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what’s right. But I’m here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it’s wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. It’s wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, it’s wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. It’s wrong in every age and it’s wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute.” - February 28, 1954