Random Thought Thread

[Fonedork]

It’s easier to manipulate people who are experiencing fear, anger, etc. When you’re in a state of threat activation it narrows your cognition and impairs higher thinking, makes you more susceptible to accept particular facts supporting a particular message.

 

[Hammer67]

It’s easier to manipulate people who are experiencing fear, anger, etc. When you’re in a state of threat activation it narrows your cognition and impairs higher thinking, makes you more susceptible to accept particular facts supporting a particular message.

The mainstream media recipe, in a nutshell.

 

[Fonedork]

The mainstream media recipe, in a nutshell.

All media afaik

 

[Hammer67]

All media afaik

And nothing new. When people complain about the current state of media, I encourage them to read a newspaper from 100 years ago. It's always been about sensationalism, manufactured drama and selective truths. There never was any "golden age of journalism," imo - even those highly esteemed journos from the supposed "golden age" lied to people all the time.

 

[JB in LV]

Few ever want to remain journalists. Most want to become columnists, podcasters, tv talking heads, serve a particular point of view. The worst want to inject themselves into the story.

majored in it for half a semester - Pauly Shore, Son in Law

 

[Blues]

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

^ this

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Oftentimes, when you hear someone espouse an idiotic idea, odds are it's not their idea. It was put in their head by someone, often someone who knows better.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

As a young man I realized that it is important to know what it is that you think about something and, why you think it.

As I got older I realized it's okay to not know what you think about something. But it is critically important to know why you think something.