On this server we are often victim of this stuff, i hope we can all improve

  • ex_06@slrpnk.netOPM
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    15 hours ago

    If one of them proposed locking the populace into an eternal doomscroll to keep them from fighting capitalism

    I didn’t get to choose that preview, idk if it’s a my bad thing or a lemmy thing

    but still i didn’t write that little sum up and it doesn’t really represent the article

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      14 hours ago

      It’s not just the little sum up. Let’s look more…

      “Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act.” Wrong - persuasion is the exact purpose. Persuading people to donate money, buy more shit, stay brand-loyal… That’s why oligarchs spend money on social media. Their alliances with each other are temporary, and meticulously defined to maximize their individual gain. Everything about their behavior says they aren’t allies.

      “Everything on social media is designed to make you think [you’re the main protagonist in a sea of NPCs, from previous paragraph],” said Cross. “It’s all about you—your feed, your network, your friends.” Ahh, okay, so the reason so many people on social media think they’re the main character isn’t because they already thought that way and the anonymity lets them express themselves more freely. No no, it’s because social media is “designed” to make them feel that way. Well alrighty then, more conspiracy. Social media didn’t evolve like everything else, somebody had a grand design for it.

      Gimme a break. What I feel is that I’ve spent enough time and effort on this.

      • ex_06@slrpnk.netOPM
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        13 hours ago

        you are kinda criticizing the finger that points at the moon (and to be clear, i too disagree with some of the rethorical stuff of the article) but doesn’t really make sense to discuss with this:

        Gimme a break. What I feel is that I’ve spent enough time and effort on this

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          13 hours ago

          Well, you said the little sum-up wasn’t the main point of the article, so I took the trouble to bring out a couple parts from the article that I felt say the same thing as the sum-up. Now all you can add is some lyrical bit about a finger pointing at the moon? Alright, have a nice day.