Music industry cartels were often articulated by bands as being abusive to authentic art. Book industry, music industry, etc. Popularity is a force few people are willing to openly criticize. Mob mentality of "we all like the sound of this one speaker's voice" even when that speaker is preaching hate or teaching terrorism.
Again, this was written in 1985, long before the Apple iPhone and Twitter:
"fifteen years on since the media became a cartel"
It is what audiences desire. Nobody forced Twitter into being the largest media platform in all human history. Nobody forced the Apple iPhone upon people.
FICTION has ALWAYS out-sold NON-FICTION. Fiction has always out-sold out-popular sincere authentic science.
This was published in 1985 by a #NYU professor of media ecology, media for media experts teacher:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
Putin / Kremlin won since March 2013, hearts and minds lost everywhere. USA hates upon USA. Exactly what Putin wants, Surkov style nonsense being eaten up.
People have been conditioned to blame the USA people instead of blaming Russia for convincing them that it was USA people. Surkov monomyth memes are self-destructive, even to domestic Russia and the Middle East.
“given that we’re buddies and on the same side, which performance do you think best serves our mutual interests in controlling our brainwashed populations?” #SurkovWon
"It's incoming but the vast majority if any of the leadership of 1/6 have (not) been punished. We are welcoming fascism in, not really doing anything to stop it or take steps to eradicate it.... Despite ALL of our freedoms and human dignity being on the line all we seem to be capable of doing is talk, complaining, ultimately nothing."
People have actively normalized it by refusing to call Putin / Kremlin out and defending USA against Russia meme invasion. Surkov won, hate won.
I'm not even posting this reply on #BlueSky because the message format is so incredibly short you often can't say any complex idea that won't get reactionary response instead of getting people to break free of the pattern. Not that Mastodon has shown much better.
A hates B, B hates C, C hates A, it's one big cycle of hate brain chemistry. Martin Luther King Jr. was right about how hate wrecks the human brain.
Left vs. Right. Which teacher recommends this? New vs. Old world order, Kings vs.
@jefftiedrich "nobody could have predicted Donny’s cultists would be this easy to con."
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, 1995
@jefftiedrich "nobody could have predicted Donny’s cultists would be this easy to con."
#MassMindDenial you have right there, nobody could predict #Surkov media techniques of 2011 onward, eh?
Nobody could have predicted that millions of people would become so addicted to media messages of the Apple iPhone that a toilet-sitting #NYC status symbol Tweeting would be the perfect Russia symbolic attack...
If Russia owns Rudy Giuliani's heart and mind, people mock and insult back. Entirely predictable, Pavlovian response. That isn't DEFENDING the USA, that is empowering Putin. Surkov media techniques work that way.
Surkov media tactics are to turn important and serious topics of society into amusing junk information. Without study or awareness of Neil Postman's 1985 social theories about media behavior, Surkov mastered it by experimenting on Russia domestic population.
Donald Trump has all the symptoms of being an Apple #iPhone addict, television addict, who does not grasp the impact media from the Kremlin has on his mind and how people all around him are being targeted by Russia. Society has largely failed to defend leaders of all ages.
If you have a 4 year old child attracted to run out into the road and get hit by cars you have to either imprison them (confine them physically with walls, barriers, fences) or somehow communicate to them by training to stay near the parents, etc?
We don't teach Media Ecology and Mass Mind Psychology to every person, yet every person has a smartphone or is influenced by films and television.
"How the fuck in this day and age of unlimited knowledge resource of the internet can you not even know what a DVD is? You dont even have to use something to know about it. I wasn't around for records or 8-tracks but I know of their existence."
"Apparently stating facts is taking sides now. Also why are they even allowed to lie like it's just normal? Yes, the media has a responsibility to keep them in check, but that doesn't mean a politician just gets to yell fantasy. I'm sure they'll find a way to weaponize fact checks too, give it some time."
#SurkovWon - see "Russia and the Menace of Unreality By Peter Pomerantsev"
Clergy in #Israel and #Iran - #USA and all over should be using all their Mosques, Churches, Synagogues and temples to preach that war and hate is bad. War is going on right now between Israel, Iran, terrorist groups.
I see politicians being reported on, where are spiritual leaders encouraging people to love and have compassion for all people? To work on sharing and understanding? Where are the psychologists of war and hate? Very few, absent. Not on YouTube preaching "love strangers, all"
You know what attracted Elon Musk to Twitter? The hum of cloud computing, fragmentation of ideas. People look at the tiny short messages that made Twitter so famous since year 2006. You know, like SMS / text messages were short. But Twitter had no such technical limit as the basis for text messages.
The smashing of understanding into fragments is what I think attracted Elon Musk to Twitter.
#CarlSagan called it "10 second sound bite" in 1995 book, before 2006 Twitter existed. Sagan was right.
