Christopher Media

No Politics! Lots of drilling to the “get the f**k away from me!” meltdown core.
-Bulls**t Jousting
-The truth probably won’t set you free
-Sausage Party Hope and the fueling Audacity of Belief
-How & why disinformation works: a first person play-by-play.

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“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Lippmann
Also: The difference between clever & smart and more on the DIKW pyramid and what happens when citizens ignore corrupt data.
– Justin Amash and the criticism from the left.
– Mueller’s fumble and the Democrat’s ensuing demand that he star in their 2020 reality show/campaign ad.
– To Impeach or not Impeach: just do it or STFU!
– Democrats are politically impotent to stop anything Trump does. How does that “protest vote” look now?

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Technology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself.  Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: “my ignorance is equal to  your knowledge.”

Also: 

-The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data.

-The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan.

-What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars?

-When avatars attack

-A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Episode about Twitter, and more.

Elias Aboujaode’s Virtually You: 

https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-You-Dangerous-Powers-Personality/dp/0393340546

Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: 

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750

Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death: 

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Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual’s intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the “other” via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones.

Also:

• Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them
• Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency
• The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism

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Haidt’s elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. “Evolution didn’t end with opposable thumbs.”

• The thin veneer of civilization
• Self-dehumanization
• Extremists v. Moderate
• The Social Media Disease

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