-1- wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:45 pm
gaffo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:02 am
thinking is becoming extinct.
thanks to the hive mind of
facebook and smartphones
While I applaud your hatred for facefuck, and high-IQ phones, I think thinking is becoming more and more rampant. People are out-of-work, more and more people. They have to do something with their time, and after watching television, the next easiest thing they can do is think. It's easy, cheap, readily available, and interactive entertainment.
100-percent off base here Sir.
"interactive entertainment" - is "squirrel!!!!!"
the opposite of thinking!
D. Thourou (mild dyslexic - you can figure out whom i am refering too).
put any man in a cabin/cell - for a few months - no tv no radio (books though are GREAT and one should have access to)..................and he will then be forced to think in silence.
we call this thinking.
lol.
you are refering to mechines to prevent us from thinking via distraction.
note - i do value thoughtful electronic media (criterion level movies, TV stuff made my thoughfull men - Serling/etc..............but one has to think first in order to value the "distraction mechines" to serve only thinking material.
-1- wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:45 pm
I am still surprised why society hasn't yet produced a demagogue who steals the thoughts of others and substitutes his or her own agenda in their places seamlessly. I mean, the Internet as a venue for that is ideal: readily available, universal, reaches almost everyone in the nation.
it took 15 yrs but its here now:
via Trump's Tweets and Alex Jone's Infowars, this guy was a nut WAY back - i saw him in Austin via ACTV in early 90's - back then the twerp was harassing Bruce Todd in front of grocery stores.
both now have an army of vile nittwitts.....that number in the millions.
-1- wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:45 pm
I think the problem lies in people's willingness to spend a lengthy time on one subject, one topic, or one speech. A ten-minute video may capture the attention of 60 percent of the people, but it may not be long enough to pack enough convincing power into it to make a real impact.
fully agree.
my old Youtube channel was made up of 60's/70's tv shows - obscure stuff (obscure as in not viewable anywhere else - and why i offered it (as well is them being good quality - removed for copyreich violations after 6 months (2 yrs ago now).
stuff like Gideon's Way, The Defenders, Callan, Danger UXB, The Human Jungle, The Senator.
stuff i found in parts on YT years earlier, then bought the DVDs of - and converted to mp4 for uploading to my channel in full series (in order to allow others to discover and appreciate).
but only those with an attention span ever would - 350 did - i had that many subbers before channel ("Z-channel" - in reference/honour to an actual z-channel of the early 80's i rem and liked as a kid) was removed.
all my programming was OLD (pre1980) - because such shows valued character development and plot.
over noise and special effects.
I just glad i have a TV and DVD player (and DVDFAB - to remove fking region codings!) that can playback all the great TV shows in PAL format - like Gideon's Way/The Human Jungle/Callan..........that will NEVER be offered here in America NTSC form, or bluray (the former due to region code fking lawyering, the latter due to lack of popularity to ever offer these shows in Highdef format.
callan was shot in vid tape and so will never look good, the other two were shot on film and would look really good in highdef.
thanlfully i have DVDFAB, if they are offered in highdef in future for brits, i'l buy them and strip the fking region code so i can view my own vids.
it did this with Wickerman BD, The Shout BD and Colluden/War Game BD (none offered here in America- only for Europe region - DVDfab removed the fking region code of my bought BD's - and the DRM freed films playback fine on my american Oppo for my american self.
fking lawyers ;-/.
-1- wrote: ↑Tue Aug 14, 2018 12:45 pm
A third problem in having a demagogue steal the thoughts of most Internet users is the diverse society we live in. Even native Americans (not meaning only First Nations, but people who were born in the USA) are divided into sharply differentiated groups. To produce a crossover convincing idea is not easy.
ya, i know - but never understood the tribal mentality of "my group".
i was born and raise without tribe.
as a univeral humanist.
my bland universalism is what give me comfort (the concept and my belief we are all the same).
this somehow for some reason has been under attack since the Plitical correctness of the late 80's showed up.
now it is all about being Tribal ;-(.
I hate tribalism!