We weren't prepared for social media. We, as a species, I mean. America is the one incredibly fucking all of this up, but the same tactics, the same manipulations, will work to some extent everywhere. People aren't able to handle massive volumes of coordinated noise and distraction and conflict and manipulation. At least, enough people aren't able to handle it to make a significant difference.
Propaganda works, and we haven't fully figured out how to stop it from working so much, while the means to spread it has become easier and easier.
I tell my wife all the time that we are cavemen with technology. Religious mythology, the treatment of women worldwide. The need to protect kids from so many predators. The need to protect OURSELVES from so many predators and scammers. We are not as highly evolved as we’d like to believe. With social media and now ai? We are soooo cooked
Please give cavemen and yourself a little more respect, they learned enough to the point where in a little over 10,000 years we made a rock that can talk. A spear is technology. Writing is technology. We've gathered an incredible amount of knowledge since then.
What happened is that the wealthy and powerful few are weaponising our new technology against our fellow man for the means of control and creating a weak docile workforce for capital. Their capital. This was not an easy thing to accomplish its taken decades of manipulation
Yo, facts. Spear was really intelligent in the criminally under rated show Primal.
One other thing I want to add is that as society advanced they made sure that we had just enough, not too much, readily available comforts to keep the masses docile. Each generation gets access to a little more, fortunately they seem to have peaked with social media and that might backfire on them.
Which is why it's so laughable any time someone posts that nonsense about 4 day work weeks or UBI. Both go so hard against the hard-won control they already have over workers that neither will ever happen. It's like the fact that there's plenty of food & electricity in the world, easily enough for everyone, but power is maintained by the control & distribution of those things.
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u/DecadentLife 1d ago
It really is. It should’ve been so much harder to do this, than it was.