It's insane how much the brainwashed tyrantlets have latched on to that, but I suppose if I become retrospective I can see it happening in almost real time; the "technically correct, the best kind of correct" memes, memetics in general, a burgeoning superiority complex about being "better" and "smarter" if you used Reddit, etc.
For people -- and naturally this does go for people on both sides -- it is no longer about being knowledge seekers, being thirsty for information to improve your personal understanding and perhaps add into the world.
Instead, now it's an ingrained complex. It's about being right, at any cost. As long as other people "affirm" your intelligence, it means you're simply better than anyone deemed lower.
Where there is a superiority complex, there is an "in" for manipulation, which is why both historically and in regards to fiction, there are often characters stoking the ego of the "man in charge" while maneuvering for personal gain.
It's disappointing that I get to live in a time where seeking information in all aspects and angles has been labeled as a cause of "misinformation".
What frightens me is this new kind of language they have pushed literally straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, so confidently knowing they could do so with Nineteen Eighty-Four being readily and freely available, yet if you were to point that out to the zombies and suggest they go and study it for themselves, they will just as conditioned retort that you're a right-wing conspiracy theorist. Hindsight's great and it's now laughably easy to see how this mass gullibility was weaponised ahead of the rollout of Novid.
Yeah, I really hope people start to notice the trends that led people down this way.
If I may dip into pop culture, people warned what would happen when horse armor was added as DLC for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion if people didn't collectively stop it (now everything is hyper monetized, that was one of the first micro transactions).
Another example is instant gratification; people noticed starting with Call of Duty 4, and worsening with each, there were more and more flashy things on screen, point pop ups for kills, kill streaks, objectives, assists, etc.
I remember older gamers at the time warning me (not directly) that we would see this raise a generation of people addicted to instant gratification and it turned out to be dead on.
It is why people should value what their elders warn. Even if you don't agree, even if you don't see it at the time you should still value it enough to carry with you for years until you can look back and understand their perspective.
Great examples. I generally don't watch any films made after the 90s and you don't have to be a film historian to see and understand the inculcating intent of just the standard film-making 'style' in general since then, let alone the explosion of ever-increasingly degenerate content. Funnily enough I was just reading a negative review of Saint Oppenheimer of the Oscars, and someone pointed out that early on in it, Cillian Murphy puts his hat on and there's a pause as if the audience is supposed to burst into applause.
It's insane how much the brainwashed tyrantlets have latched on to that, but I suppose if I become retrospective I can see it happening in almost real time; the "technically correct, the best kind of correct" memes, memetics in general, a burgeoning superiority complex about being "better" and "smarter" if you used Reddit, etc.
For people -- and naturally this does go for people on both sides -- it is no longer about being knowledge seekers, being thirsty for information to improve your personal understanding and perhaps add into the world.
Instead, now it's an ingrained complex. It's about being right, at any cost. As long as other people "affirm" your intelligence, it means you're simply better than anyone deemed lower.
Where there is a superiority complex, there is an "in" for manipulation, which is why both historically and in regards to fiction, there are often characters stoking the ego of the "man in charge" while maneuvering for personal gain.
It's disappointing that I get to live in a time where seeking information in all aspects and angles has been labeled as a cause of "misinformation".
Sorry, I ranted. I'm a little salty about it.
No need, it's nice to see thinking and analysis 🤗
What frightens me is this new kind of language they have pushed literally straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four, so confidently knowing they could do so with Nineteen Eighty-Four being readily and freely available, yet if you were to point that out to the zombies and suggest they go and study it for themselves, they will just as conditioned retort that you're a right-wing conspiracy theorist. Hindsight's great and it's now laughably easy to see how this mass gullibility was weaponised ahead of the rollout of Novid.
Yeah, I really hope people start to notice the trends that led people down this way.
If I may dip into pop culture, people warned what would happen when horse armor was added as DLC for Elder Scrolls: Oblivion if people didn't collectively stop it (now everything is hyper monetized, that was one of the first micro transactions).
Another example is instant gratification; people noticed starting with Call of Duty 4, and worsening with each, there were more and more flashy things on screen, point pop ups for kills, kill streaks, objectives, assists, etc.
I remember older gamers at the time warning me (not directly) that we would see this raise a generation of people addicted to instant gratification and it turned out to be dead on.
It is why people should value what their elders warn. Even if you don't agree, even if you don't see it at the time you should still value it enough to carry with you for years until you can look back and understand their perspective.
Great examples. I generally don't watch any films made after the 90s and you don't have to be a film historian to see and understand the inculcating intent of just the standard film-making 'style' in general since then, let alone the explosion of ever-increasingly degenerate content. Funnily enough I was just reading a negative review of Saint Oppenheimer of the Oscars, and someone pointed out that early on in it, Cillian Murphy puts his hat on and there's a pause as if the audience is supposed to burst into applause.