Excellent read. Pass it along to the teenagers in your life.
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No effin kidding. This ongoing quest for evermore recognition is beyond pathetic.
If it continues, humanity is doomed to disappear by terminal self-absorption.
It’s no fun being groomed for sex, or being gang-bitched by rival girls via the convenience of social media. Mean girls have been empowered to destroy via social media.
SDA should introduce a feature where commentators can up-vote other commentors’ comments.
Wow, it was worth reading the whole thing just to get to this line…
“The ultimate freedom is a free mind…”
I had trouble getting past this (obviously Communist) former Google employee telling me that the US consumer isn’t really getting a “choice” with shelves full of “identical” toothpastes. This FOOL doesn’t seem to understand how the Free Market and Free Will works. He doesn’t seem to understand human nature wherein we copy success. So if one type of toothpaste becomes extremely popular as a result of consumer CHOICE … then everyone follows to replicate that success. Add to that the subtle nuances introduced to the base product to siphon off buyers interested in YOUR particular alteration … and you’ve got capitalism at its best. Guess what, you “highly educated” Google doofus … the toothpaste aisle all looks alike because NOBODY WANTS to spread a tooth powder on their teeth anymore. What an “impressively educated” moron!
Sorry to get distracted from the main topic … but this Communist is playing his own parlor magic tricks on the gullible corners of your brain … to get you to admit that all toothpastes are alike … and you don’t really have any “choice”. Utter nonsense … the CHOICE(s) have been made long ago. And until some new innovation or revelation takes place … the consumer WINS! The consumer has shaped the market and the product.
People like this TOOL are why Google needs to be busted up and regulated. And don’t bother trying to convince me that Free Markets don’t require ANY regulation. Nonsense.
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.
I’m the expert. trust me, I will protect you.
Yeah right. Defend a billion peoples’ minds from anti-socialist, anti-globalist propaganda?
Maybe people are quite capable of defending their own minds thank you very much. AT BEST, this is such an arrogant attitude to make one vomit. And the worst is …
What the Utopians never seem to understand is that not everyone thinks like you. If all of society were like me, there wouldn’t need to be police or jails because people would do the right thing, and armies would be a thing of the past because nothing would be worth the horrors of war (because the enemies would be like me, so reasonable). Then again, I’m an aspie so I see a lot of things in black and white.
The rules don’t need to be put in place to deal with reasonable folks. “Go punch a Na$i” shouldn’t be reasonable in a discussion for the sole purpose that it’s not discussion, it’s stopping discussion. Further, it isn’t reasonable when one doesn’t describe what a Na$i behavior is. The rules that Google and TwitFace are putting in place are actively against reasonable folks who disagree with them. The TwitFace censors use their projection to figure “everyone who sees what I see and doesn’t agree with me must be evil”, so otherwise reasonable people and reasonable presentations must be hidden from public view cause they are evil, because their approach is different from that of the TwitFace. Antifa are the current incarnation of the fascists, but are so ignorant of history and what fascism means that they think they oppose it.
Nowhere is this more apparent to me than in the blinders applied against PragerU. Nothing rude or vulgar, just simple and understandable and wise testimonials and explanations. That are banned like they were kiddie-porn. Because the projectionists cannot bring themselves to experience and argue a different way to look at the world.
Even polite discourse is now intolerable incitement, where words alone are deemed violent so requiring defensive thuggery.
Punk is the new stormtrooper. Assault so obvious intimidation is their stock and trade.
And of course they have overreached in Portland, going way past annoying, and are headed for a clampdown.
No more cop bystanders please.
Without social media, like the Daily Mail, and its ilk, social superstars sink sadly into obscurity (and who would really miss them, except others without lives of their own).
No effin kidding. This ongoing quest for evermore recognition is beyond pathetic.
If it continues, humanity is doomed to disappear by terminal self-absorption.
… or terminal termination …
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/04/suicide-rate-rises-among-young-people-in-england-and-wales
It’s no fun being groomed for sex, or being gang-bitched by rival girls via the convenience of social media. Mean girls have been empowered to destroy via social media.
SDA should introduce a feature where commentators can up-vote other commentors’ comments.
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Life follows Art:
Karma Chameleon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw
100% Yep..!!
Wow, it was worth reading the whole thing just to get to this line…
“The ultimate freedom is a free mind…”
I had trouble getting past this (obviously Communist) former Google employee telling me that the US consumer isn’t really getting a “choice” with shelves full of “identical” toothpastes. This FOOL doesn’t seem to understand how the Free Market and Free Will works. He doesn’t seem to understand human nature wherein we copy success. So if one type of toothpaste becomes extremely popular as a result of consumer CHOICE … then everyone follows to replicate that success. Add to that the subtle nuances introduced to the base product to siphon off buyers interested in YOUR particular alteration … and you’ve got capitalism at its best. Guess what, you “highly educated” Google doofus … the toothpaste aisle all looks alike because NOBODY WANTS to spread a tooth powder on their teeth anymore. What an “impressively educated” moron!
Sorry to get distracted from the main topic … but this Communist is playing his own parlor magic tricks on the gullible corners of your brain … to get you to admit that all toothpastes are alike … and you don’t really have any “choice”. Utter nonsense … the CHOICE(s) have been made long ago. And until some new innovation or revelation takes place … the consumer WINS! The consumer has shaped the market and the product.
People like this TOOL are why Google needs to be busted up and regulated. And don’t bother trying to convince me that Free Markets don’t require ANY regulation. Nonsense.
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked.
I’m the expert. trust me, I will protect you.
Yeah right. Defend a billion peoples’ minds from anti-socialist, anti-globalist propaganda?
Maybe people are quite capable of defending their own minds thank you very much. AT BEST, this is such an arrogant attitude to make one vomit. And the worst is …
What the Utopians never seem to understand is that not everyone thinks like you. If all of society were like me, there wouldn’t need to be police or jails because people would do the right thing, and armies would be a thing of the past because nothing would be worth the horrors of war (because the enemies would be like me, so reasonable). Then again, I’m an aspie so I see a lot of things in black and white.
The rules don’t need to be put in place to deal with reasonable folks. “Go punch a Na$i” shouldn’t be reasonable in a discussion for the sole purpose that it’s not discussion, it’s stopping discussion. Further, it isn’t reasonable when one doesn’t describe what a Na$i behavior is. The rules that Google and TwitFace are putting in place are actively against reasonable folks who disagree with them. The TwitFace censors use their projection to figure “everyone who sees what I see and doesn’t agree with me must be evil”, so otherwise reasonable people and reasonable presentations must be hidden from public view cause they are evil, because their approach is different from that of the TwitFace. Antifa are the current incarnation of the fascists, but are so ignorant of history and what fascism means that they think they oppose it.
Nowhere is this more apparent to me than in the blinders applied against PragerU. Nothing rude or vulgar, just simple and understandable and wise testimonials and explanations. That are banned like they were kiddie-porn. Because the projectionists cannot bring themselves to experience and argue a different way to look at the world.
Even polite discourse is now intolerable incitement, where words alone are deemed violent so requiring defensive thuggery.
Punk is the new stormtrooper. Assault so obvious intimidation is their stock and trade.
And of course they have overreached in Portland, going way past annoying, and are headed for a clampdown.
No more cop bystanders please.
Without social media, like the Daily Mail, and its ilk, social superstars sink sadly into obscurity (and who would really miss them, except others without lives of their own).