...how am I not surprised?
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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yea ... sighs ... I've recently been unable to shake the thought/realisation that we've just made the whole "TV will rot your brain" thing worse. There was a moment there where the internet seemed to be an improvement on TV, but the net result now, and I fear irredeemably, is that it's worse.
I think it's just new. We can control the internet through decentralization, kinda like the project we're on right now. Expecting any brand new tech to be perfect right out the gate is just wishful thinking though, it needs development and refinement.
TV is literally just major corporations plowing things straight into your brain, though, with very little ability to prevent it except by not watching tv.
Well that’s the thing. That’s what the internet is now. And my fear is that it will stay that way for a good while as too many don’t see the point in making it something else which would just be more “boring”. But it wasn’t always this way. Putting aside the endless September, before big social, it was worth it. Now big social has captured a whole generations understanding of what it means to be online.
Staying away from the big platforms has worked out well for me. Those are well under the control of corporate interests like TV, but I now have access to several independent journalists from across the world, the ability to fact check a topic within minutes to hours instead of days to never, and a much easier way of organizing with like minded people.
The internet is a tool. It's more full of misinformation, disinformation, useless garbage, and scams now than it was, but it's still useful if you know how to sift through it. We should be educating our youth on how to do that and identifying the list of pitfalls above to help make it even better.
We should be educating our youth on how to do that and identifying the list of pitfalls above to help make it even better.
Hear hear!!
I think the key point is that improvement is possible here. Something humans have within the realm of things they could do. As opposed to tv, which isn't really fixable.
I’m curious to hear what they think the benefit to exaggerating climate change would be. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to come to the conclusion that the people funding and making those exaggeration claims are probably also the ones that benefit from oil.
I have a barber that believes its about controlling the population towards different products. (ie reducing fossils fuels to remove influence from OPEC)
But the same person also believes that 5g towers is giving us all cancer so 🙄
Conservatism is a contagious disease and young people are not immune.
I mean, someone has to be at the bottom of the bell curve!
A bell curve counts the frequencies of a single parameter. A person, such as a teenager, does not fit on it.
Also, the bell curve does not have a single bottom.