Not a critique of your ideas, but of your style: reduce the number of words you emphasize in quotes and stars. Longer paragraphs challenge this *short attention span* you speak of and the overuse of "quotes" for every third or fourth "word" makes the reading halting and less effective as communication. It is just slightly less distracting than reading all caps.xoxos wrote:
richard dawkins introduced a very nice concept for discussing the cultural transference of ideas, eg. how and why we think what we think: memetics, and memes, as thought parallel to genetics, and genes. yet, if you ask someone what a "meme" is, it is a picture of a cat with some bold white letters.
you see, if you start to consider culture from a memetic perspective, especially once you are old and edified enough to experience various instances of industrial culture,
you will realise that the ideas people think in the west are somewhat limited in scope.
i mean, i come to this forum and go into this day after day year after year. ---> human attention is the. most. valuable. commodity in the universe. what you think, what we think transfers to what we do, how we respond, *everything that human culture touches* so influence over what we think is a supreme commodity.
this is the *music industry*
and what i have to deal with, is the fact that some people, are still challenged by the ideas that people who produce products may not have the highest form of integrity and are in it for profit instead of "making really great synthesizers".
well, i got news for you. it's not even about the money. the money is a tool as well. it's the carrot on the stick. the stick and the carrot belong to someone who is more concerned with how you see the world than what you buy, because a purchase happens once, but how you think affects how you purchase for a lifetime.
it's so simple, but since everyone is focused on the swaying carrot, we forget about the stick.
isn't there enough bullshit in society for you to think that something may be "up"? how ridiculous do thnigs have to get before you notice that people are laughing at you in your face, all the time, because you are more willing to beat on the guy who says there is a collusion than to confront the injustices that this institutional opportunism visits upon our entire species?
i'll make this clear: years ago, i thought that the advent of advertising and electronic media had accidentally made westerners mentally feeble, with short attention spans. but what happened to me (which i understand, you cannot accept as truth only because i say it) is that "the people who control the population" started to *let me know* and mess with me, which has continued for eleven years. i have to put up with this every day, everywhere i go, in the world, and online. i *know* that there are "social agencies" that exist purely to influence what "the common man" thinks. there is absolutely no question about it. they are even so confident that they can tell you in your face who they are and what they do and you will deny it, because you have, and your whole culture has, been trained to deny it. even the "anonymous" movements, the "voices of opposition and awareness" are controlled by these people. it's like "good cop, bad cop" - by presenting "all the sides of an issue" they control the dialogue.. you turn to the advocate, they are a *false advocate* - just like the "occupy" movement, or the "black lives matter" movement, you only hear about them because these people want you to feel that you can see all the sides of an issue. they are all pawns, designed to keep society ineffectual and divided against itself.
this is called *perception management* and it isn't anything new whatsoever.
meanwhile, west papua suffers. but you can buy synthesizers and lots of junk food and fill your head with a million kinds of boring nonsense. the important thing is, to believe that happiness is something you can buy. as long as you do that, you need everything to stay the way it is.
on the content: And while I admittedly haven't done my due diligence in investigating your claims of being led around by the brain by the media, your invoking Dawkins reminds me to look at these claims objectively and where there is no real evidence of a supreme power controlling, creating, and watching over us, not to create one.