100% correct!! Critical thinking did not die. It was harvested for ad spend and fed back to us as a form of dopamine. In my “Epistemic War Reports,” I refer to this as SECSV: saturate attention, enclose discourse, capture identity, and then apply selective violence to dissent. Voilà. Reflexive control in a red hat.
The fix is not vibes. It is operations. Treat propaganda like pollution. Regulate emissions. Fund local news. Teach bullshit detection alongside algebra. Cut algorithmic throttle on rage bait. Break the data brokers. Unionize teachers and pay them like neural infrastructure. Stop performing “dialogue” with people whose worldview is a subscription product. Organize the reachable middle and starve the click farms.
You do not bargain with a con. You break the Bezzle! You deplatform it, then you build a better on-ramp to reality. Pack your critical faculties and your running shoes. The house is on fire. We are the water.
That disconnect from reality is why my last vote for a Republican is twenty three years in the rear view mirror. I can’t abide religious nutters who think government is a tool they can use to insert their obsessions into my life.
100% correct!! Critical thinking did not die. It was harvested for ad spend and fed back to us as a form of dopamine. In my “Epistemic War Reports,” I refer to this as SECSV: saturate attention, enclose discourse, capture identity, and then apply selective violence to dissent. Voilà. Reflexive control in a red hat.
The fix is not vibes. It is operations. Treat propaganda like pollution. Regulate emissions. Fund local news. Teach bullshit detection alongside algebra. Cut algorithmic throttle on rage bait. Break the data brokers. Unionize teachers and pay them like neural infrastructure. Stop performing “dialogue” with people whose worldview is a subscription product. Organize the reachable middle and starve the click farms.
You do not bargain with a con. You break the Bezzle! You deplatform it, then you build a better on-ramp to reality. Pack your critical faculties and your running shoes. The house is on fire. We are the water.
That disconnect from reality is why my last vote for a Republican is twenty three years in the rear view mirror. I can’t abide religious nutters who think government is a tool they can use to insert their obsessions into my life.
Well said Neal and thank you.
They became a disloyal opposition in 2009 with the Tea Party and we still can’t talk about it. It’s … baffling … to me.