Isn't it funny how we used to act shocked at older politicians in the Internet age who still put on the old tricks and didn't seem to realize how fast information travels? Like Hillary putting on a southern accent in the South. "Don't they know we can see them?!""The internet is forever!" I think we realize now that they know we know, and they don't care. The brazenness with which they behave is a power move. The know the corporate media is in their pocket and will be all too happy to gaslight the rest of the population while they humiliate the ones paying attention.
The media is evil yes, but more importantly I hope you all brutally mock and shame any normies in your life who still believe what appears on TV and in the papers, or what any politician or climate activist says ever. That world only exists for the sleepy normies benefit but we all are forced to suffer the consequences.
I think we realize now that they know we know, and they don't care. The brazenness with which they behave is a power move.
I don't know that it's always flaunting power. They're still very capable of scraping by because most people usually don't know that something happened. Or, for something like this post's story, it's not terribly important.
As you've noted, information can spread fast now, but it still needs to be captured (filmed or documented) and shared to reach people. It has to overcome the volume and prominence of seemingly unlimited other information sources. And oftentimes, it will need to break through a person's preconceptions about the subject, which likely requires a steady supply of digestible related information.
With that said, it's a little difficult (well, extremely difficult because of my cowardice in social settings) for me to mock normies for not knowing information that is not present to them.
I don't necessarily disagree, it's sometimes a result of their strong sense of invulnerability and overconfidence rather than a conscious power move. Occasionally a bad take or stupid moment will slip through the media filter and when they can't lean on "Republicans pounce!" (in the US) they'll report on the "controversy" or how outraged people are - usually because it's embarrassing them a little too much. Then the politician will be forced to apologize with a wink and a smile. If that doesn't work and they continue to be an embarrassment, they'll find something unrelated like a sex scandal or bribery to take the actor down and replace them with a new actor.
Either way the more we can force that to happen the better, although it doesn't compare to pitchforks and torches at their doorstep. At least it gives us more stories to show to people who are willing to look.
hope you all brutally mock and shame any normies in your life who still believe what appears on TV and in the papers,
This doesn't work. Remember, every source they are being propagandized already has an air of authority.
You have to drag the Ghelmann Amnesia effect out on display for themselves. You have to give them a safe place to reconsider their thoughts (or more likely consider them for the first time), and then you have them walk through the problem through their own thoughts.
The big problem here with how most normies are conditioned is that they are trained NOT to think, but to trust the technocracy implicitly. That's why the charge of a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'misinformtion' works. They are relying on other people to do the thinking for them.
You can't berate them, because they'll just find another source of information to uncritically adhere to at best. You have to do it like training at the gym. They have to get used to feeling the weight on intellectual effort before actually trying anything serious.
Isn't it funny how we used to act shocked at older politicians in the Internet age who still put on the old tricks and didn't seem to realize how fast information travels? Like Hillary putting on a southern accent in the South. "Don't they know we can see them?!" "The internet is forever!" I think we realize now that they know we know, and they don't care. The brazenness with which they behave is a power move. The know the corporate media is in their pocket and will be all too happy to gaslight the rest of the population while they humiliate the ones paying attention.
The media is evil yes, but more importantly I hope you all brutally mock and shame any normies in your life who still believe what appears on TV and in the papers, or what any politician or climate activist says ever. That world only exists for the sleepy normies benefit but we all are forced to suffer the consequences.
I don't know that it's always flaunting power. They're still very capable of scraping by because most people usually don't know that something happened. Or, for something like this post's story, it's not terribly important.
As you've noted, information can spread fast now, but it still needs to be captured (filmed or documented) and shared to reach people. It has to overcome the volume and prominence of seemingly unlimited other information sources. And oftentimes, it will need to break through a person's preconceptions about the subject, which likely requires a steady supply of digestible related information.
With that said, it's a little difficult (well, extremely difficult because of my cowardice in social settings) for me to mock normies for not knowing information that is not present to them.
I don't necessarily disagree, it's sometimes a result of their strong sense of invulnerability and overconfidence rather than a conscious power move. Occasionally a bad take or stupid moment will slip through the media filter and when they can't lean on "Republicans pounce!" (in the US) they'll report on the "controversy" or how outraged people are - usually because it's embarrassing them a little too much. Then the politician will be forced to apologize with a wink and a smile. If that doesn't work and they continue to be an embarrassment, they'll find something unrelated like a sex scandal or bribery to take the actor down and replace them with a new actor.
Either way the more we can force that to happen the better, although it doesn't compare to pitchforks and torches at their doorstep. At least it gives us more stories to show to people who are willing to look.
This doesn't work. Remember, every source they are being propagandized already has an air of authority.
You have to drag the Ghelmann Amnesia effect out on display for themselves. You have to give them a safe place to reconsider their thoughts (or more likely consider them for the first time), and then you have them walk through the problem through their own thoughts.
The big problem here with how most normies are conditioned is that they are trained NOT to think, but to trust the technocracy implicitly. That's why the charge of a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'misinformtion' works. They are relying on other people to do the thinking for them.
You can't berate them, because they'll just find another source of information to uncritically adhere to at best. You have to do it like training at the gym. They have to get used to feeling the weight on intellectual effort before actually trying anything serious.