"The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality," The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel wrote in an article about hurricane conspiracies headlined: "I'm Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is." - October 19, 2024 - America's gullibility crisis, Zachary Basu

Your sources all overlook the changing role of women, inexpensive personal computers, DSL access.

The Pentagon was not the underlying source of the Arab Spring. As I said, I predicted it using Marshall McLuhan and James Joyce in 2009.... while I was living in Austin, Texas and studying media ecology of new commercial social media systems and all the Americans showing off their bling bling life to the world.

"A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women"
By Michael Slackman
May 26, 2007
"ALGIERS, May 25 — In this tradition-bound nation scarred by a brutal Islamist-led civil war that killed more than 100,000, a quiet revolution is under way: women are emerging as an economic and political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world."
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/africa/26algeria.html

What is the “monomyth problem”?

[email protected] "Unified Theory of Fiction and Non-Fiction" talks about it here on lemmy.

We have known for 2000 years that "I love Jesus" is wrong, "I love Allah" is wrong, "I love Yahweh" is wrong, "I love God" is wrong. Bible verse "1 John 4:20" from the Levant. And I am NOT a believer that the Bible is historical factual history. It is science fiction. But the behavior problems towards fiction, "alternate reality games", is a crisis now more than ever with what Cambridge Analytica and the Kremlin Released in March 2013 on the World Wide Web

You continue to show you are a true believer in the Kremlin and do not see the Pale Blue Dot global perspective of the "Tower of Babel" problem, languages and metaphor systems.

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"The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot poem

What concerns me is social media users who can't escape the immediate social media enviornment and show the dozens of articles already describing this by medical professionals, unable to demonstrate they can get on the same pages of information on a topic and instead only want Donald Trump and Elon Musk kind of inline media environment sources.

Why can't we just all repeat the same story every day until every person in USA gets on the same page?

Why do we have to generate millions of unique messages that all pass like ships in the night and nobody ever gets on the same page at the same time?

1. Psychologist-backed documentary labels Trump 'malignant narcissist' https://www.france24.com/en/20200901-psychologist-backed-documentary-labels-trump-malignant-narcissist

2. The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists. Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/

Why do people not work towards getting everyone on the same pages of the problem, instead finding engagement in discussing the problem over and over and over independently on social media platforms and different communities and different messages for over a decade, since year 2014?

Egomaniac sure. But it’s important to recognize

I think media consumers go into egomania discussing how they are better than Donald Trump day after day as a form of egoism on social machine systems, "engagement" about how they are so much mentally healthier than one single person. Unable to see Mass psychosis of the entire population behaving that way. Forest for the trees problem.

Your entire reply was only about the icon status symbol of a single person, Donald Trump, and entirely skipped the other assertions I made in the message you replied to.

.3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

.4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

.5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

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.

Forgive me for thinking I was as memorable to you as you to me.

These days I can barely remember my own self in all the mass mind / group think concerns I have.

I said I choose my illusions. Like you with the Great Seal.

I wasn't given much choice, perhaps not as in bad shape as someone born in 2020 in Palestine who can't escape, but in our own way technology and history imprison us. What's my nightmare is how many people seem to enjoy defeating other people and building technologies that empower our self-destruction.

I find no goodness in my society around me marching towards something worse than 1937 Germany. There are much better ways to learn and make mistakes than to build systems and devices of wrecking goodness.

We could be learning, and teaching, and sharing much better things....

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

As if Donald Trump from Reality TV "The Apprentice" with side-kick Rudy wasn't show-running amusing enough for the population to mockery every day in the first term, now in 2024 they added Elon Musk X media platform influencer to the entertainment spectacle. Surkov governing is irresistible to We The People. Social machines have been worshiped at every step of this mass dehumanization.

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher

Putin has the ESP

No, it isn't Vlad Putin, it is Vlad Surkov. Surkov understands that people on social media who react-comment with Twitter-Length Tweet-thinking of 4 words are easily controllable with media systems. Vlad Surkov openly explains this, but the people on social machines who have brain-damage from their machine lust can't seem to put two and two together and get anything near 4 or higher. Reacting only to clickbait and headlines, giving up their free thinking skills to meme-patterns.

Vlad Surkov: "The illusion of choice is the most important illusion, the main trick of Western democracy especially…. The rejection of this illusion in favor of the reality that everything is predestined will allow society to reflect first on our vision of democratic development," Surkov wrote. "Foreign politicians talk about Russia's interference in elections and referendums around the world. In fact, the matter is even more serious: Russia interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it."

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“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT computer science research, 1974

You are in no position to lecture me on morality.

I'm not lecturing you on it. I'd rather you go away and stop commenting to me.

The morality problem is global. People can not tell "good from bad", which is the meaning of the word "morality".

People think ELon Musk's ideas about empathy are good, for example.

You clearly can’t see the hypocrisy.

You believe that Lemmy conveys what I understand and see. You have a media ecology literacy problem. I suggest you study Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman. [email protected] community on Lemmy for that.

Putin vows to 'finish off' Ukraine and mocks size of British army after 'reassurance force' announced

28 March 2025

Vladimir Putin has vowed to "finish off" Ukraine and mocked the size of the British army after a "reassurance force" was announced.

Putin made the remarks while aboard a new nuclear submarine during a visit to an Arctic naval base on Thursday.

He claimed Russian forces have the "strategic initiative" along the Ukrainian front line and had reason to believe his army would "finish them off".

He also reaffirmed his claim that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term expired last year, lacks the legitimacy to sign a peace deal.

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

.... see also: [email protected] "Counter Vlad Surkov methods"

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"As one journalist put it: "It is a strategy of power that keeps any opposition constantly confused." A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is undefinable. It is exactly what Surkov is alleged to have done in the Ukraine this year (year 2014). In typical fashion, as the war began, Surkov published a short story about something he called non-linear war. A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control." - BBC, Adam Curtis, year 2014 video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9_L9GRRsQo

If you have a proper insurance system and social safety net, then veterans wouldnt need special treatmenty because everyone just gets what they require.

if social media users of Mastodon, Reddit, Bluesky could actually bother to read a book or even Wikipedia about the January 1944 "Second Bill of Rights" and make it front page of every social media site for day after day for 6 months, the problem would probably be progressed. This was 5 months before D-Day to liberate France from Nazi Germany, but all people do on their Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Samsung Smartphone / Android devices is share kitten images and dumb as fuck memes in celebration of ignorance...