I’m still not seeing a specific accusation.
I’m still not seeing a specific accusation.
Well, you answered your own question 3 times. Consider the nature of that kind of conversation.
In a nutshell, thinking coarsens as it passes hand to hand. First-hand is finest. Fourth-hand is a crude and nigh-solipsistic.
So that’s one argument for independent thought.
If you wish to accuse me of any of that then you will need to be specific.
Otherwise, well, who’s the fascist now?
That’s a semantic argument about the salute. It makes no reference to nazis. You have nothing.
But nobody apologized for nazis.
You are like one of those little bugs that make noise at night. But instead of a melodious cheeping you just go “nazi nazi”.
It’s also the Roman salute, which predates nazis and fascists.
And you gotta admit, it’s a powerful gesture.
Also, he runs a company that makes spaceships. Which is pretty awsome.
Think about that while you work your shitty 9-to-5
I think that isolating oneself in a cave might be best.
Imagine an illusion, the matrix, built not of scifi machinery but of habit, maintained by the presence of others.
Get alone and the habits dissolve. And then the invisible becomes visible.
Because drugs are bad mmmkay?
And drugs are defined by tv shows. Drugs are pills.
Also, talk about drugs anywhere and you’ll encounter 40-somethings with an unreasonable hatred of drugs. They get crazy. That’s the “just say no” propaganda talking. It was pushed in the schools in the 80s, and we still hear the echoes.
It’s a testament to the power of media and propaganda.
When both sides are full of professional liars, that won’t work.
We might have to settle for not knowing.
Yes of course.
But by what method or algorithm does this DECENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA system protect us from propagandists and censors?
What is a method in THAT?
Distributed tagging and voting? The grace of our benevolent moderators? Something else?
I mean, combatting propaganda and censorship is the #1 issue here.
How do we protect ourselves from propagandists and censors? Large, small, popular and individual.
I might add, “become comfortable with uncertainty”. Because nothing drowns you in a swamp of bullshit like an excessive need for certainty.
That’s the best way
our thoughts are given form by language and vocabulary
And our experiences, and our intelligence, too. Right?
Which makes the challenge one of navigating that mess.
There is the theory that we feel emotions first and then we think only to justify the emotion.
This would imply that it isn’t the thinking that needs to be managed but the emotions.
Brave and creative.
Come on @Infinitus@lemmy.world . It’s just talk. You aren’t afraid of talk, are you?
Are you afraid that you might say the wrong thing? That you might get in trouble for saying the wrong thing?
That’s pretty darn weak.