4Chan / Twitter values “For the lulz” nation who thinks Fox News is hilarious, a 78 year old “edge lord” leading the nation as a shit-bird Tweet king on the toilet is funny. As long as everything keeps people entertained with technology.
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” ― Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, 1992
“What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT 1974
The problem is that a lot of the people that believe this, were told by almost everyone in their life that the reason they’re miserable is because of immigration or those uppity black folk, not because of poverty.
They’re cheering right now because from their perspective, they’re finally seeing something being done about the root of their problems.
They think that after this business is done, they’re going to live in 1950s post-war America rather than 1950s post-war Germany.
During their “golden age” millionaires were taxed at over 80% and there was Jim Crow. They think bringing back Jim Crow will fix things, but they ignore the idea of taxing the rich.