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Cyber Space Monkeys continued. In part 1-of-3, I’m joined by Chris & Rich from Unregimented to discuss the effects of social media on individuals and society as a whole. Propaganda kerosene and the disinformation detonator, the connection between road rage and net rage, much of the IDW: for-profit social media brands and “right adjacent” influencers producing “content” for handouts, Nicholas Carr and how the Internet physically changes our brains, good deeds done solely to post the selfie, and more.
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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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Parties, their power-first representatives and constituents, fundamentalist ideologues, extremists, etc. are failing everyone.

Government institutions are melting down and the faith of the governed along with it.

Hey! What could possibly go wrong?!?

 

 

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Confused as to why your righteous demands aren’t being met? Behold!

• Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together
• The Grand Design & Ideological Religions
• Making Enemies of Allies
• Haidt’s Elephant
• Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind
• External Truth and Reason
• Authoritarian creep
• No Hitler references!

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Are you wondering why every source of “news” and information sucks? It’s because everyone from MSNBC to NPR to FOX to Alex Jones to Social Media “Influencers” operate according to the same for-profit model: drawing eyeballs to their product to sell someone else’s.

The re-resurrection begins by re-laying the foundation. More on the way.

 

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First Social Media Disease antibiotic treatment. Starting with an X-Pod flashback to 2014, Todd discusses Cambridge Analytica before turning to more recent effects of our collective addiction to social media on society and how a bilateral abandonment of a commitment to basic common facts–in favor of tasty propaganda–is having a dehumanizing effect and rapidly eroding the social contract. Also: cyber space monkeys, avatars showing off for each other in the Matrix, and the digital-organic hybrid: meme belching Cyborgs.