So, if you don’t think anyone can help them

I didn't say that, can you quote where I said that?

I said nobody has been able to, that doesn't mean the future is written and undecided.

why do you do what you do?

I think good is good. I personally think the USA is a hell-hole since Q4 2014 and I've been hospitalized over a dozen times because I can't stand how people hate each other and use social machines like Lemmy, Bluesky, Reddit, Twitter to promote mass dehumanization and hate.

I felt it was a matter of Civic Duty and I contacted the Pentagon for help and assistance in year 2015. I haven't given up on love and compassion just because other people keep teaching Hate Harder to every problem. "I reported it in 2015 under Biden/Obama! At the time, I did not know it was Russia attacking social media, but I knew it was hard core Joseph Campbell / Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller level Mythology, and I reported it! I was BOOTS on the Ground in North Africa Arab Spring, December 2010. I know my shit!" - August 17, 2015 is when I telephoned the Pentagon.

I used to work for Telos Federal Systems at age 16 as an Apprentice during the cold war, so I had some training on Kremlin information warfare.

Nobody else was stepping up, so again, my civic duty.

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"Most people can't stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody's not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right. So a sort of numerical interpretation of what's right. But I'm here to say to you this morning that some things are right and some things are wrong." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.

Sure, and I'm 55 years old, and I've heard this told to me every day of my life that I verbally communicate since age 12 in 1982. The same conformity enforcers who want to wreck you for using language outside of their ego system.

This is why I traveled to the South America (Arica, Chile) to live in 2004, how I predicted the Arab Spring on December 16, 2009 from Austin Texas study of social media systems and the newly emerging smartphone culture, and went to Algeria in North Africa on December 3, 2010 - and over to the Middle East for the Syria war outbreak to monitor in Amman Jordan in March 2011 for a couple years.

I just couldn't believe how much people murder and kill and go to war with each other over the most superficial shallow values of language and communications. But after all that experience in Africa / Middle East, I fully understood and recognized what was happening when Cambridge Analytica and Russia unleashed on the World Wide Web in March 2013 the 5,000 language and communications alternate reality game patterns onto Reddit, Twitter, news comment sections... because the way to wreck human minds more than any other way is to communicate slightly differently.

May I give you a little unsolicited advice? It will be the same advice that I believe made me more effective with my messaging. also, it was hard advice for me to get at the time, but it has worked wonders.

You know what worked wonders for me facing up to the egomania of people who want to direct you how to communicate? James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake fro 1924 onward. www.WakeIndra.com

I also teach it over on [email protected] Lemmy community.

James Joyce's excellent writing has a lot of cures for language, Tower of Babel, egomania in English readers and communicators!

Even our dumbest fellow humans are smarter than we give credit.

This isn't about smart or dumb. This is about [email protected] people not being able to distinguish "good" and flocking to bad, especially with social machine devices in their hands and HDTV media distortion. How people think that what they consume on social machines is the same as reality itself.

"Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man." - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966 www.LazyWake.com

the people that you need to reach and teach (and you have many good things to teach) are not like us.

They are inside the 5,000 Kremlin alternate reality games, and the Middle East Bible / Torah / Fiction alternate reality simulacra story patterns, MonoMyth fiction patterns. As I have been doing full time since December 16, 2009 - I can only try to get people to recognize the danger this poses to humanity when Hate Harder is their core value and faith.

“Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”

I haven't read it, thanks for the pointer.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television is a 1978 book by Jerry Mander, "who argues that many of the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus cannot be reformed"

Boy, the same concept applied to the iPad and iPhone medium and technology....

The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011), it was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation. The bubble effect may have negative implications for civic discourse

Trivialization is the act of making something seem less important, serious, or complex than it actually is. It involves reducing something to a trivial or insignificant level, often with the intent of dismissing or minimizing its significance.

The constant meme machines hammering the 5,000 alternate reality screen games upon the population, people trivialize it.

Fox News language and thinking that conditions minds with wealth televangelism of Rupert Murdoch's media systems. People trivialize it, act like it is normal, and refuse to study media ecology of how it influences every other media platform. When education and learning and understanding is presented how the Mosque and Church and Synagogue do the same thing as Rupert Murdoch media environments to empower land lords and kings over everyday people, people dismiss it, trivialize it, act like it is unimportant topic.

The anti-intellectualism problems of meme-think Twitter-thinking meme-head society people trivialize and LOL and are so amused that they can't even understand what they have lost. Russia has won your heart and mind with surreal comedy and absurd humor, and all you do is mock humanism and goodness itself in favor of mocking and name-calling and LOL at orange skin color and poopy diapers of Donald Trump and side-act Elon Musk all 2024 and year 2025.

It is sickening, sick society, bottom to top, and has been since Q4 2014 when the Putin Media Invasion of Cambridge Analytica mental payloads had been deployed for 18 months. People can not get enough of mocking Donald Trump's image and mimicking his mass dehumanization behaviors on Twitter.

“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985

The FAA is now a laughingstock too

April 10, 2025 another problem. As if all the corporate influence Boeing 737 MAX shit wasn't enough. Any benefit of doubt is disappearing fast in 2025.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/planes-collide-dca-per-members-congress-board

no, it's fine / no problem. I corrected it (I hope). Again, thank you. Be well.

I also have a constant problem when I type that I write "Untied States" instead of "United States"...

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“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.” ― Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban. October 8, 2013.

USA will be on mobile networks that the rest of the world will not support, Apple iPhone and Apple iPad will not be anywhere near leading edge of technology - the rest of the world of total 8.0 billion people will dump the USA status symbol of Apple iPhone that every Hollywood star and politician holds... nation of 0.34 billion in own world where it thinks Apple iPhone is the best in the world.

And the USA made Apple iPhone will have Trump-approved content filter and undo ability of any journalists, press, citizen who does not comply with Donald Trump messaging values on social machines.

I’d argue it started with Bush and his No Child Left Behind bullshit. It forced a certain curriculum to leave out common sense and critical thinking skills

Children aren't the problem. it's adults who get their constant education off anonymous memes. The year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone changed everything about USA society. We had the Fox News Rupert Murdoch problem since 1996, but the shit memes people flock to and "shit postings" addiction are the learning / education / study problem.

Shitpostinh education is very predictable adult education outcome. Cal Sagan predicted in in 1995: “Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding (from 1995) of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, year 1995

They seem to “know” the direction they need to go in to improve the situation, but they are incapable of making a decision that results in a better outcome.

In mental disorders, that is called "Executive Function" - which I suffer from greatly when fighting the Kremlin information warfare. The irony is not lost on me that the psychology industry calls it "Executive Function" and that's the executives in the White House they are manipulating.

Peer pressure, advertising, marketing, propaganda, union busting - all tend to converge on using techniques to manipulate this area of the mind and overwhelm it or cause disorder of some kind.

Look at the techniques from year 2014 onward that Russia used to manipulate mental function of people regarding pandemic / vaccination / defense against diseases: Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency", the study found. It examined thousands of tweets sent between 2014 and 2017. Vaccination was being used by trolls and sophisticated bots as a "wedge issue", said Mark Dredze from Johns Hopkins University. "By playing both sides, they erode public trust in vaccination, exposing us all to the risk of infectious diseases," he said. ... "A significant portion of the online discourse about vaccines may be generated by malicious actors with a range of hidden agendas," said David Broniatowski from George Washington University. The researchers reviewed more than 250 tweets about vaccination from accounts linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). In February the agency was named in a US indictment over alleged election meddling. The IRA tweets used polarising language and linked vaccination to controversial statements about race, class and government legitimacy, the researchers said.

leaders using religion symbols and religion holidays to champion death-wishing upon those they disagree with.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: "It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong."

“Some people are afraid of ghosts, some of spiders or snakes- in those days we were afraid of our fellow human beings.” ― Malala Yousafzai , I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

I was looking through posts on Lemmy and came across a long list of posts solely linked to reddit

If they copy the content of the Reddit over to Lemmy and other places, I think that's a good thing. Public resources of information, Usenet roots of social media, are incredibly important. Reddit (content) isn't built upon private social media, it's primary public shared social media, and preservation and community accessible content (advertising free on Lemmy) is valuable to the whole World Wide Web / Pale Blue Dot. We need more and more Wikipedia style content that is contributed to all humanity and not so many people obsessed with egoism and self-centered content creation.

What boggles my mind is that people actually spend LOTS of money to buy those award thingies and they send that to each other, the abject level of consoomerism.

Actually that's what people do to Mastodon and Lemmy operators, they donate money to the owners directly. I'm far more for that than psychologically manipulative advertising and marketing of the Edward Bernays style funding the site.

I think Reddit in 2022 should have returned to open source like they were in earlier decades, fully release the source code, became a non-profit corporation, fully disclosed their accounting / financed like Beehaw does, an been run by donations only - renouncing advertising. Openly publish moderation logs and openly disclose what they are removing / ongoing SPAM attacks, etc. Be the the long-form (not short-length Twitter-length) Google Search hit-results website leader that appeals to book readers ( Read-it ) length consumers.

Instead, they went the opposite of a non-profit Google Search engine destination for research and discussion and became a source of marketing and advertising content for Corporate America values / Elon Musk values.