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I was watching one of my many "research programs". (Us conspiracy guys need to stay on top of world events, ya know.)
Any way this fella made the most valuable point I think I've ever heard in terms of a rational, clear, explanatory breakdown of what's happening with young "techno-elite" people today and why it means the end of western civilization as we know it.
Essentially this point (he makes several) is that because so many young and middle aged people today have spent their formative years tethered to social media devices and inputs, they (we, really) lack the ability to have meaningful discord based discourse. These techno-elite people are so "plugged in" to their twitter, instagram, FB and like social media feeds that they are neither willing nor even communicatively capable of extracting themselves from the warm, supportive womb of like-minded, but largely anonymous and distant blips and screen-names that make up their informational and social existence.
In short, because people have become so dependent upon their phones, their twitter feeds, their instagram posts and the FB pages (and even their Steeler Nation boards) they are honestly retarded communicatively. When someone offers a separate life-view, it is entirely too easy to blast that completely anonymous and invisible person on twitter and then block them forever. Furthermore this can be done in the safe cocoon of "same-speak" that the individual has created for himself or herself making an echo-chamber of positive feedback.
And the worst part? There's no going back. There can be no breaking of this cycle. we have become so dependent on our technology, our group-think and our perfectly insulated world views that truly nothing can break us from our unhappy state, much less our future generations who will be exposed to even more innovative technologies touted as "eye-opening" and "social" when in fact they are little more than attractively packaged shackles for our children's minds.
There is no escape. We have gone beyond the point where our technology has made us morons.
Any way this fella made the most valuable point I think I've ever heard in terms of a rational, clear, explanatory breakdown of what's happening with young "techno-elite" people today and why it means the end of western civilization as we know it.
Essentially this point (he makes several) is that because so many young and middle aged people today have spent their formative years tethered to social media devices and inputs, they (we, really) lack the ability to have meaningful discord based discourse. These techno-elite people are so "plugged in" to their twitter, instagram, FB and like social media feeds that they are neither willing nor even communicatively capable of extracting themselves from the warm, supportive womb of like-minded, but largely anonymous and distant blips and screen-names that make up their informational and social existence.
In short, because people have become so dependent upon their phones, their twitter feeds, their instagram posts and the FB pages (and even their Steeler Nation boards) they are honestly retarded communicatively. When someone offers a separate life-view, it is entirely too easy to blast that completely anonymous and invisible person on twitter and then block them forever. Furthermore this can be done in the safe cocoon of "same-speak" that the individual has created for himself or herself making an echo-chamber of positive feedback.
And the worst part? There's no going back. There can be no breaking of this cycle. we have become so dependent on our technology, our group-think and our perfectly insulated world views that truly nothing can break us from our unhappy state, much less our future generations who will be exposed to even more innovative technologies touted as "eye-opening" and "social" when in fact they are little more than attractively packaged shackles for our children's minds.
There is no escape. We have gone beyond the point where our technology has made us morons.