Because no one does catty bitch better than a split tail.
I wonder, sometimes: does she think this shit still works to change opinions? Can she be so disconnected from real, non-professional class people such that what she thinks matters?
There are just so many useless people out there...
It's not about the claims themselves, it's about the sensory bombardment. Each round doesn't have to be match grade when your firing at 50,000 rounds a minute.
People will get feelings from stories like this, and they'll hold onto the feeling, but NOT REMEMBER where it came from.
It needs to be said more often because your last paragraph is on the money.
Most people would fail a Turing test. They're basically ameboes. Stimulus response. Stimulus response. (Granted I don't believe in free will to begin with so I'm coming at this from a fairly dark place as far as "the human spirit" goes)
The end result is it doesnt actually matter what anybody does or doesn't do, all that matters is what's memorable and framing. That's the basic idea of "fortifying an election" the number of people who are UNABLE and I don't mean haven't learned, I mean lack the capacity, to parse connotation and denotation separately is way higher than those who can.
"Republicans pounce" indeed. The fact that pounce, point out, seize, hold accountable, raise questions, bring up, push, question, call out, and comment on are exactly the same thing is lost on 80% of people.
I think your way underselling most people, and free will. Most people are simply not as you say. Most people are not actually NPC's. They are trained to be NPC's by the media and education on specific topics. This is where the Ghelman-Amnesia effect comes into play, as well as familiarity bias.
Most people don't think much about politics, so their cognitive load is entirely based on other topics. They know what they know about, and what effects them in their daily lives. Relying on conditioning for things like politics is merely an efficient use of their time because the effects of government, particularly federal, have very little direct and immediate effect on their lives.
The conditioning which is built to offload cognitive load is not easily given up because not having to worry about cognitive load is a major benefit. No one wants to be the weirdo droning on about the mechanisms of political intrigue, especially if feedback is not explicitly apparent.
As such, the media indoctrinates people more based on those feelings because they have actually conditioned people for decades to subscribe to a narrative that has pre-built conclusions for everything, so the only thing left is emotional stimulation which is just responding to whether or not the issue is difficult or complex enough to not fit into the narrative, causing emotional distress from cognitive dissonance, and adding to cognitive load.
What you are seeing is not animal psychology. You are seeing a highly refined, highly trained, mass psychological conditioning that is designed solely to make people's cognitive load lessened; while actually betraying them in the long run. It's a deception.
If free will weren't a thing, deception and counter-deception wouldn't even be necessary.
Your argument would be valid to me if I was only talking about politics. I'm not.
I'm talking about every aspect of life. And the PAINFUL slog it is to get people to even play pretend at critical thinking.
The conclusions that people draw from information is in my experience, barely even tangitally related to what the information actually IS.
And again, if I only saw this in politics id say you have a point. But it isn't. There are programed blindspots, I'm not disagreeing with you there. And there are people who could otherwise make connections and leaps of logic that don't because of that programming. But in my experience the vast majority couldn't. Even without the programing.
Free will is a separate issue, I don't believe it exists and I've yet to hear an argument that was convincing. Most boil down to "but it'd be totally lame if it didn't exist" and I don't find that paticularlu compelling.
Because no one does catty bitch better than a split tail.
I wonder, sometimes: does she think this shit still works to change opinions? Can she be so disconnected from real, non-professional class people such that what she thinks matters?
There are just so many useless people out there...
It's not about the claims themselves, it's about the sensory bombardment. Each round doesn't have to be match grade when your firing at 50,000 rounds a minute.
People will get feelings from stories like this, and they'll hold onto the feeling, but NOT REMEMBER where it came from.
It needs to be said more often because your last paragraph is on the money.
Most people would fail a Turing test. They're basically ameboes. Stimulus response. Stimulus response. (Granted I don't believe in free will to begin with so I'm coming at this from a fairly dark place as far as "the human spirit" goes)
The end result is it doesnt actually matter what anybody does or doesn't do, all that matters is what's memorable and framing. That's the basic idea of "fortifying an election" the number of people who are UNABLE and I don't mean haven't learned, I mean lack the capacity, to parse connotation and denotation separately is way higher than those who can.
"Republicans pounce" indeed. The fact that pounce, point out, seize, hold accountable, raise questions, bring up, push, question, call out, and comment on are exactly the same thing is lost on 80% of people.
I think your way underselling most people, and free will. Most people are simply not as you say. Most people are not actually NPC's. They are trained to be NPC's by the media and education on specific topics. This is where the Ghelman-Amnesia effect comes into play, as well as familiarity bias.
Most people don't think much about politics, so their cognitive load is entirely based on other topics. They know what they know about, and what effects them in their daily lives. Relying on conditioning for things like politics is merely an efficient use of their time because the effects of government, particularly federal, have very little direct and immediate effect on their lives.
The conditioning which is built to offload cognitive load is not easily given up because not having to worry about cognitive load is a major benefit. No one wants to be the weirdo droning on about the mechanisms of political intrigue, especially if feedback is not explicitly apparent.
As such, the media indoctrinates people more based on those feelings because they have actually conditioned people for decades to subscribe to a narrative that has pre-built conclusions for everything, so the only thing left is emotional stimulation which is just responding to whether or not the issue is difficult or complex enough to not fit into the narrative, causing emotional distress from cognitive dissonance, and adding to cognitive load.
What you are seeing is not animal psychology. You are seeing a highly refined, highly trained, mass psychological conditioning that is designed solely to make people's cognitive load lessened; while actually betraying them in the long run. It's a deception.
If free will weren't a thing, deception and counter-deception wouldn't even be necessary.
Your argument would be valid to me if I was only talking about politics. I'm not.
I'm talking about every aspect of life. And the PAINFUL slog it is to get people to even play pretend at critical thinking.
The conclusions that people draw from information is in my experience, barely even tangitally related to what the information actually IS.
And again, if I only saw this in politics id say you have a point. But it isn't. There are programed blindspots, I'm not disagreeing with you there. And there are people who could otherwise make connections and leaps of logic that don't because of that programming. But in my experience the vast majority couldn't. Even without the programing.
Free will is a separate issue, I don't believe it exists and I've yet to hear an argument that was convincing. Most boil down to "but it'd be totally lame if it didn't exist" and I don't find that paticularlu compelling.