Happy 2020! Are we ready? After a 2-month hiatus spent illegally hunting rhinoceros and snipe in the wilds of the West Michigan wilderness, Todd welcomes the 20’s with a quick episode discussing apocalyptic thinking, the coming electoral season, where to find balanced news coverage, and the rarely-used technique of actually listening to “opposition” media simply to understand where they’re coming from. Eureka! *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn’t suck.*Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com
#53 – Disinformation ’16, Weaponized Truth, Hillary The Halloween Zombie
This episode focusses mostly on disinformation and interference in the 2016 election and includes selected audio clips from the Your Undivided Attention podcast episode “From Russia With Likes” (#1) featuring disinformation expert Renée DiResta. Her expertise connects incredibly well to my Propaganda series. Topics include: the seemingly innocent methods used by the Russians exploiting personal identity to create online communities that can be manipulated via agitative identity politics later on, The Call to Action: The Manchurian Propagandist, more on the propaganda dopamine connection: validation, attacking trust in political institutions and the media, anger and apathy, exploiting freedom of speech, and the silliness of the “Global Public Square. Listen to Your Undivided Attention here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/ ALSO: Hillary: probably right about Tulsi Gabbard Hillary: definitely right about Jill Stein Hillary: absolutely a Trump asset Americans subsidize European entitlements Trump’s “foreign policy” could lead to universal education Media and Information Education: stat! Be sure you’re subscribed to “Escaping The Cave” *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn’t suck.*Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com
#52 – Presidential Anarchy, Goebbels’ Ad Company, and a Prayer
Trump’s not actually retarded, is he? Pray with me, won’t you? Also: Quitting smoking: it sucks No, seriously. I prayed. Nicholas Carr and the “influencer” Joseph Goebbels and Edward Bernays My poor little podcast is attacked by a zombie Happy Halloween? Fu*k Twitter *Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn’t suck.*Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com
#51 – Pinching The Impeachment Loaf
Are you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works: the wide-angle agitation propaganda lens. First, a virtual colon cleanse in the form of a micro-pod.
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#50 – Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary Hatred
n introduction to LeBon, his ideas on mobs, and The Psychology of Revolution–specifically: hatred. The forthcoming electoral reality show, 2020’s prepared script, how the spinoffs will be cast, and what happens when our Matrix Avatar Superheroes stumble into the Desert of the Real.
ALSO:
Unrealistic expectations on the Steaming Pile of Twitter
Was it your childhood dream to be Saul Goodman?
More on pseudo-environments and internal narratives
Fcuk Twitter
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#49 – Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob
Institutions fail and democracy descends into mob rule when representative are paralyzed and terrorized by fear of their voters. Trump, Ukraine, and 2020’s year-long electoral reality show disguised as an idealistic impeachment. Informational sectarianism and how it’s easy to see “their” propaganda. Yours? Never! Their demagogue is your savior. There may be a way for a detaching informational unicorn treat that. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper; when everything is spin and propaganda, who’s a political infidel supposed to believe?
Also:
Alternate Informational Universes
Half-assed media sophistication: not enough
Why can’t we watch the opposition’s media without going nuts?
Our dueling scandals aren’t automatically mutually exclusive
More on the the Current Events Man
Media isn’t free. You are the product being sold.
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#48 – The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse
“The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed.” A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. People can’t personally perceive the world beyond their own sliver of firsthand experience. Therefore, the Current Events Man is beholden, dependent upon, and therefore exploited by the propagandist and his digital distortions. If democracy is demands an “enlightened citizenry”, it’s likely doomed from the start. Paradoxically, there’s a stab at some hope in here too. Weird.
ALSO:
Te Nosce, bitches
Competing Scandals; Competing Networks; Competing Narratives
Smoking, Facebook, and associative dopamine addiction.
The Matrix and the Internet
The responsibility and danger of exposing “their” delusion
All Cats Meow
Why we believe the ridiculous
Finding hope in human imperfection
More on likability and art
The Hobgoblin
Where the hell is Jill Stein? #NeverForget
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Episode 434: Shop on Main Street (1965)
We conclude Czechtember 2019 with a look at Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos’s The Shop on Main Street. Also known as the Shop on High Street, the film was released in 1965 and written by Ladislav Grosman, based on his own story and book. The film tells the tale of Tono, a carpenter who has been refused from working on his little town’s major building project. Instead, he’s assigned to be the Aryan face of a Jewish shop run currently by Mrs. Lautman, a nearly deaf and partially blind widow.
#47 – Wokeflake Comedy: Sociological Propaganda
A rare ETC podcast: one topic. The stage that was once the playground of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and even Andrew Dice Clay has been stormed by a mob of Social Vengeance Warriors hell bent on using comedy as a delivery mechanism for textbook sociological and agitation propaganda, complete with its own version of the Ten Commandments (now in print!) and a handy scapegoat Satan. When does the “Thank You, Comrade!” showcase start?
ALSO:
Controlling speech is controlling thought; Speechcrime is Thoughtcrime
Unless Nickelback is your standard, nothing great has ever come from timid conformity.
“Unanimity requires compliance” and defiant creative independence
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#46 – Newton’s Third Law of Totalitarian Messiahs
Agitation propaganda is doing its work, speechcrime is taking root in the form of virtual media mobs enforcing cancel culture and its point-of-view authoritarianism, the Wokeflake Messiah will arrive soon, Newton’s Third Law of Extremism, slave’s spirituals and frightened children scrambling to the ideological church to be soothed by visions of a future Heaven on Earth.
ALSO:
Toxic Compromise
The Election Won’t Matter.
At all.
Wokeflakes Becoming Trump
We The Authoritarian People
*The Propaganda and Social Media Disease theme resumes soon. It’s a good time to catch up on what you may have missed.*
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