United States of America is self-destructing, self-harm. Hate harder values, Twitter-thinking / Tweeting-think behaviors and attitudes, using systems to mass dehumanize We The People, egoism / egomania abounds. The Russian information warfare started in March 2013 and nothing has been able to get people to defend or turn away from self-harm behaviors in USA.
5,000 alternate-reality fiction patterns
https://www.facebook.com/konstantin.rykov/posts/10210643558675446
“Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.” … “Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.” … “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”
A dishonest yellow journalism for profit media created a need for alternative sources of information. Legacy media sold their own rope to hang themselves.
Legacy media sold their own rope to hang themselves.
Yes, they adopted meme-speak and clickbait of social media since year 2013, they should have stuck with serious sincere content and not reducing all problems into Twitter-thinking fiction Tweet-length ideas and concepts just because the audience was flocking to that to lose an information war to Putin / Russia / Kremlin.
“Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.” … “Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.” … “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”
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“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
Pretty rich hearing this from conservative rag The Hill. When you consider that under Trump’s second term was the only time when speaking out against him might have been dangerous, it’s a bit hilarious that that’s when they decided to start.
Pretty rich hearing this from conservative rag The Hill
Social media users of 2025 seem entirely unable to distinguish Fiction from non-Fiction, all they care about is “Brand Bad” !BrandBad@lemm.ee - who assert “The Hill is always trash”, “Fox News is always better” logic of information sources. https://lemm.ee/post/60498310
Instead of scrutinizing each idea independently for factual non-fiction reality, all people do is praise brand loyalty of media systems.
it’s a bit hilarious
Social media users in 2024 and 2025 can only mock and mockery, unable to resist absurd humor information warfare. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee
it’s a bit hilarious
“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information–misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information–information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee
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“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III ‘to prove a villain.’ Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is ‘banal’ and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.” ― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of EvilI like the idea of this !c and I don’t actually disagree, but I really don’t know if I want to have an internet argument right now. Good luck.
I really don’t know if I want to have an internet argument right now
Yha, we wouldn’t want to blame Twitter-thinking Tweeting-length responses to problems for the downfall of the USA, because we avoid confronting religion, politics, “Internet arguments”, sincere debate, assert goodness… there are kitten photos on the front page of streaming meme amusement mills such as Lemmy and Reddit that attract much more.
We sure wouldn’t want to get out of our easy chair and stand up for goodness. That might be called an “internet argument”, a thought-terminating cliché.
“Hybrid War Lost”
This isn’t a community for memes and amusement mockery like are so popular since 2013. “Британские учёные из Cambridge Analytica предложили сделать из 5 тысяч существующих человеческих психотипов - “идеальный образ” возможного сторонника Трампа. Затем… положить этот образ обратно на всё психотипы и таким образом подобрать универсальный ключик к любому и каждому.” … “Следующим шагом необходимо было разработать систему передачи задач и информации, чтобы никакая гэбуха и АНБ не смогли её спалить.” … “Дальше оставалось только загрузить эти данные в информационные потоки и социальные сети.”
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“a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again. It is an improbable world. It is a world in which the idea of human progress, as Bacon expressed it, has been replaced by the idea of technological progress. The aim is not to reduce ignorance, superstition, and suffering but to accommodate ourselves to the requirements of new technologies. We tell ourselves, of course, that such accommodations will lead to a better life, but that is only the rhetorical residue of a vanishing technocracy. We are a culture consuming itself with information, and many of us do not even wonder how to control the process. We proceed under the assumption that information is our friend, believing that cultures may suffer grievously from a lack of information, which, of course, they do. It is only now beginning to be understood that cultures may also suffer grievously from information glut, information without meaning, information without control mechanisms.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
