Elon Musk X media platform is common venue for masturbation to USA “left vs. right” egoism of tribal alpha-male intercourse
“Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?” … Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: “I am smarter than Donald Trump”, “I am smarter than Elon Musk”, “I am smarter than Russia”
Nope, Muslims are on a different book, Quran, than Christians, Bible.
Have you ever lived outside your home nation? I’ve lived in North Africa, Algeria - Islamic nation. I’ve lived in Jordan in the Middle East. I’ve lived in USA, my home nation where I am now. I’ve lived in Indonesia and Malaysia - Islamic nations. They are not on “the same page”, a Mosque is not reading The Bible.
I suggest you work on your media literacy. I suggest Finnegans Wake by James Joyce as study basis; !JamesJoyce@lemm.ee
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“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966
Yes, I understand all that. I didn’t mean that Christians and Muslims are on the same page with each other, but as individual groups they are on the same page, due to whatever propaganda they injest. Conservatives follow the Conservative Propaganda Machine, Christians follow the Bible, Muslims follow the Quran. Neo-Nazis/ White Supremacists have their websites and podcasts. Etc., etc.
Often those individual groups have similar objectives and will form alliances, such as the alliance between Christians, Conservatives, and White Supremacists.
My point stands that having everyone singing from the same sheet music isn’t the answer. That just takes mindless obedience, which is easily exploited by bad-faith entities. Encouraging people to render their own decisions based on Critical Thinking Skills, guided by a genuine sense of morality, is far more important to the health and security of a nation.
But you clearly didn’t understand what I was saying about the urgent need to get people on the same page, a “Super Wikipedia” and stop consuming junk comments on Lemmy.
I disagree with that. Having everyone relying on the same propaganda is what has brought us to this point. Too many people abdicate their responsibility to think responsibly to whatever their propaganda of chouce is, whether its the lies of the Conservative Propaganda Machine, or the mythology of their religious books. Any blind loyalty to a single source invites manipulation and exploitation.
People need to sharpen their brains, and question all statements coming from any Authority, know how to consult original sources for varification, and not rely on canned explanations from political and religious propagandists with their own evil agenda.
Yha, why would you want to feed people fiction and falsehoods as the same page to get on.
You seem to have a comprehension problem with the idea. I’ve lived in nations that mandate the Quran as the book to all be on the same page.
that’s not reality. I suggest you study this book: This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality is a 2019 book by Peter Pomerantsev about disinformation and propaganda, which covers such campaigns in multiple countries.
My “Super Wikipedia” is people adopting science. Carl Sagan ideas. see also: !sagan@lemm.ee community.
What I suggest you avoid is more and more comments on Lemmy, go with the books.
Books are just one more opinion, and too many people confuse opinions with fact. I prefer original sources, and draw my own conclusions, instead of relying on the interpretations of those sources by those with their own agendas.
Id rather watch the speeches, see videos of incidents, read data, etc. MAGAs believe that the Jan 6 Insurrection was a peaceful tourist visit because their news source of choice chose to not air clips of the violence, showing a few calm moments out of thousands of hours of video, to represent their story.
OTOH, i watched it first-hand from beginning to end. I know what they said in the pep rally, because i watched it, i didn’t rely on someone else’s interpretation. I watched them attack the Capitol, and fight with the police. Nobody can ever tell me it didn’t happen because it wasn’t on Fox News, or because their favorite pundit spoon fed them lies. I saw it with my own eyes, live and unedited.
Propaganda is too pervasive in our society, so i no longer trust any book or person’s opinion, even when they seem to be on my side. I verify everything before forming my opinion, and even then, my opinion is open to change with more verified information. I have never followed the Conservative Motto: “Dont bother me with facts, my mind is made up.”
that’s how Russia won since year 2013. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee
They are winning because they have convinced shallow thinkers to blindly trust a small number of media outlets that comprise the Conservative Propaganda Machine, and reject all else.
I reject “Opinion News” of ALL types, but I do not blindly follow ANY dogma of any type. That’s the difference.
That was true up until year 2012 in USA. Then in year 2013 the “Putin Media Invasion” came onto every media outlet and platform.
“Operation Matthew 4:19”
https://lemm.ee/post/60021835
Billionaires met in November 2013 and one month later announced in December 2013 that they were going to troll the entire world (over gender) to wage war against Ukraine - Operation Matthew 4:19