March of the frogs

[babushka]

Tinfoil hats required.

What happened on these "forums" do we suppose? Infiltration? From who? Alphabet soup, marketing, media, .gov, syndicates, grifters? All of the above for sure, but that's no different from any other part of life.

What do you see when you walk into the supermarket and pick up a basket? The news and magazines with pretty faces.

Allot of question marks, I apologize.

We all come from different walks of life, times and places. A forum to me is a discussion board, a place to find information, a place to share in projects and journal them. Threads used to be long running, filled with photos and other trivia.

How is it today? Repetitions of shortform content. A two hour youtube video could be read in a couple of minutes. It's the density of the information...I remembered...I remember being shocked when someone looked down at me with scorn: "how can I be so dumb to still spend time reading, I should just watch a youtube video. That's what people do these days." 

The scorn I received was from a disdain for my "old fashioned" ways. But how is it now? How much information is in social media posts?

Everything is a billboard and the news is written from the billboards. Verbiage and inferences. 

Everything requires a reaction, a statement, there is no discernment. There is no discernment because the information contains very little data. It's all trust me bro's, yeah this and that's and no no no

[Ninurta]

It's a low-information society trapped in a high-information world.

Nowadays, most "learning" is accomplished via videos, and I can't learn anything that way. There is no time to ponder, reflect, and internalize the information, and it's far too tedious to try to rewind videos and find the right spot for reviews and such, referring back to previous information to make concepts link together. With a book, it's usually just a matter of flipping a couple of pages, and there you are.

The net result is that people can no longer properly internalize their learning, and the result of that is a low-information society.

I think that, really, is by design. Whomever is calling the shots simply can't have us proles starting to think and gain actual knowledge, then think that through and piece together information that was not specified to begin with - it's not to their advantage for us proles to be able to discover things and think them through.

So they give us videos instead.

The same goes for manuals on operations of things like various softwares. It's harder and harder to find actual manuals, instead manuals are housed in things like .chm files, which are crap for looking things up when you need specific answers. And "training" videos - those have the same drawbacks as "teaching" videos when it comes to learning things like software packages. They're crap for trying to find specific answers to specific questions.

The printed page is becoming an anachronism, and society is becoming all the poorer for it. One day, probably not far off, libraries full of information will be nothing more than museums, and all of the knowledge they contain will be lost to the masses.

But we don't really need all that knowledge to properly serve our "betters", now do we?

So they engineer a low information society of mere servants, serfs, and slaves rather than thinking free men. It's better for them, and safer for them that way.

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