Why should anyone read such large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials? They likely won’t, and will move on.

The fact they are addicted to Tweet-length and Tweet-think is the problem. Neil Postman's book is only 184 pages, it is in any used bookstore from 1985 for probably $6 cost. "large amounts of text, not knowing someone’s credentials" - Neil Postman is not difficult to read, there are even videos that cut the subject down to brief consumption.

6 minutes and 15 seconds on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETUGwC9jXCM

I created a Lemmy community too:

[email protected]

If you saw my old reddit account, you would have seen similar walls of text. I still say the same things. but, now i feel like more people actually listen, learn, and respond.

I understand what you are saying, that TLDR and ELI4 stuff sells better. I have known that since Neil Postman's book came out in 1985. I'm entirely self-aware of how I communicate and the kind of craving and advice you have about how to mimic Donald Trump and Elon Musk and be much more popular in year 2025 on social machine systems.

There are two major media cults in USA:

1. Fox News media cult, consumers of "wealth televangelism" of Rupert Murdoch content creators, who are attracted to Donald Trump media press content. They adore powerful billionaires, attracted to lordship symbolism. Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk Twitter / X media platform, many others provide this media cult content.

2. People who hate Donald Trump, who constantly talk about Russian piss tapes fetish, Donald Trump shitty / poopy diapers fetish, Donald Trump fashion and cosmetic, his orange skin color, Donald Trump's golf course visits. This media cult is attracted to Donald Trump content to mock the status symbol of POTUS on the world stage. These cult aficionados flock to surreal humor, absurd comedy, gallows humor, insult comedy, symbolism arrangement humor, and mass dehumanization mockery that Donald Trump and Elon Musk generate from the White House / Twitter social machine media platforms.

There are many variations of media cults, like Catholic vs. Protestant readers of the same storybook, The Bible imported from the Levant to North America. They all adore fiction storytelling, they are media cults of fiction and avoid intelligent non-fiction at all cost. They adore the mocking that Donald Trump White House provides since Q4 2014, the total mockery of humanism in favor of media content and media machines (HDTV for Fox News, social media machines for meme streaming networks like Twitter, Reddit, Bluesky, etc).

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a "basket case of clowning around" on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It's the entire population of Untied States of America.

NATO / USA lost the Hybrid War that was launched in March 2013 against the World Wide Web.

1. Kremlin brags that only 1% of the manipulation Hybrid War content has been discovered and removed. NATO has entirely been unable to defend, 99% flies under the defense radar of Five Eyes (FVEY).

2. Russian military was able to completely get past USA FBI, CIA, NSA, and whatever else the Pentagon has. Competely unable to defend the population against Russian Hybrid Warfare. "For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation." "the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD penetrated the computer network of a university adjacent to Red Square back in 2014, only to later realize they had tapped into APT29, aka Cozy Bear, one of the Russian government-affiliated organizations that penetrated the DNC and targeted other US government departments". "It was Dutch intelligence operatives that hacked into some of Russia's own institutions -- including their closed-circuit television cameras."

3. Putin and Surkov's "Operation Matthew 4:19" global manipulation of everyday people included turning social media consumers into Russian assets of the Hybrid Warfare who deliberately spread measles and COVID-19 virus during the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University validated evidence going back to year 2014.

4. Absolutely no defense has been found against this Hybrid Warfare since it was unleashed in March 2013. "At the NATO summit in Wales last week, General Philip Breedlove, the military alliance’s top commander, made a bold declaration. Russia, he said, is waging “the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.” It was something of an underestimation. The new Russia doesn’t just deal in the petty disinformation, forgeries, lies, leaks, and cyber-sabotage usually associated with information warfare. It reinvents reality, creating mass hallucinations"

We haven’t given this guy 120 billion big difference.

Can you elaborate please? who is the "guy" and what is the 120 billion in reference to?

Ha! The tisim is strong with him and his ability to see himself as the actual perpetrator of evil is lost on him….

I have autism too, and I'm his same age. What Elon Musk completely lacks is any learning, study, and understanding of morality. He loves machines, he loves technology. Like almost all his social media users on Twitter / X, Startlink ISP, who would sell their soul for machines... they value content and hardware, not human persons.

“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

I’m not sure there’s a psychiatrist left on this earth who could fix this mental wreck…

They are almost all cowards, unwilling to confront people like Doctor Abraham Brill who manipulates crowds for money.

The whole for-profit medical industry earns money off people being mentally sick from all the mass dehumanization coming out of Elon Musk and Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch and Vlad Putin (to name only a few), they are all part of the industrial complex.

Only a tiny tiny few number of them speak up about the source of the problems: “Using the DSM V”, or the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a bedrock text that helps mental health professionals define and treat mental disorders, “it is easy to see that Trump meets the behavioral criteria for antisocial personality disorder,” the open letter said. “Even a non-clinician can see that Trump shows a lifetime pattern of ‘failure to conform to social norms and laws,’ ‘repeated lying,’ ‘reckless disregard for the safety of others,’ ‘irritability,’ ‘impulsivity,’ ‘irresponsibility,’ and ‘lack of remorse,’” the letter said.

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“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Canadian Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951

Julius Möttönen, a doctoral researcher at the University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology and the study’s lead and corresponding author. “This should get more attention in both healthcare and schools.”

And politics. When studying "world hate affairs" of why people in the White House and Russia are threatening Greenland and USA ritualized adults who think Joe Rogan is a good source of knowledge and education start chanting "JD Vance couch couch couch" and chanting "Canada, 51st state by military force", and chanting "DEI bad, Department of Education bad, shut down universities, shut down colleges, remove liberal arts from schools" and all the other MAGA chanting against comprehension, education, learning, study, reading books, etc in favor of Reality TV entertainment and Joe Rogan / Elon Musk media empire (X streaming memes social machines) owners and leaders...

how does anyone even describe the United States of America year 2025 in prose English? It's impossible to describe the anti-intellectual brain damage values and brain damaging Fox News / Joe Rogan thinking that is praised as public education and daily teaching systems. Fucking impossible to write how horrific it is to have brain damaged people praised as "alpha male leaders" in year 2024 and year 2025.

Clown Population. The clowns inside the White House are only a small fraction of a total society of mock for mock, reactionary mocking, clowns. The entire nation is a “basket case of clowning around” on social machines / HDTV media machines / mockery.

People like to play a game of psychological denial and say ONLY MAGA is the clowns, only the White House is the clowns. It’s the entire population of Untied States of America.

That so many academics / school systems / teachers / educators are falling for this snake oil is very alarming. The very people who have access to information systems to research topics go with the flow of the latest apps and trends blindly without validating and researching that the tools don't have massive harm problems.

“But to what extent has computer technology been an advantage to the masses of people? To steelworkers, vegetable-store owners, teachers, garage mechanics, musicians, bricklayers, dentists, and most of the rest into whose lives the computer now intrudes? Their private matters have been made more accessible to powerful institutions. They are more easily tracked and controlled; are subjected to more examinations; are increasingly mystified by the decisions made about them; are often reduced to mere numerical objects. They are inundated by junk mail. They are easy targets for advertising agencies and political organizations. The schools teach their children to operate computerized systems instead of teaching things that are more valuable to children. In a word, almost nothing that they need happens to the losers. Which is why they are losers.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992

Important Reminder

August 24, 2018

All across the world every major news site covered this story in August 2018. Even Fox News covered it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192