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Originally Posted by NY_refugee87
The cognitive/rational, critical thinking part of your brain is either being clouded by boxed wine, high soy diet, or Florida's heat...
Blames the proliferation of social media. Cites "hate speech". Don't go blaming a cartoon now! Your posts are contradicting themselves.
Jabs aside, stop feeling. Start thinking. Think before you post craigiri...
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Well, I'm surely not going to debate if you claim to be the ultimate guide to guns and self-defense....
But what I am going to claim to be, and rightly so, is one of the very first 1/10th of 1% of Americans to understand the online world (say, back in 1984 and ever since) and do all the calculations which involved the "network effect"....
Now, if you don't know the difference between one person, a hundred people and BILLIONS of people, it is unlikely I am going to be able to school you in such. But I can provide some hints.
First - since I like very much to come to agreements, let's agree that propaganda works...well. If it didn't, the the Russians, Germans, Brits, Americans and other governments must have been crazy to invest so many resources into it. In fact, we could continue to say that the trillions spent on "marketing" (propaganda...almost always) was also wasted money....
It wasn't. Propaganda, brainwashing, peer pressure - ALL these things work, and they work well.
The mass of humans just cannot help themselves. Attention=Energy and people are drawn to horror, terror death and destruction like a moth to a flame.
If we also agree that sick people have existed forever...that is, there is a bell curve of sanity and even of anti-social behavior. But in the olden daze.....those people sat largely alone. Now, they have people like those in this thread spreading around their "interpretations and twitter comments" of anything and everything they desire.
Like a monkey given cocaine (the monkey stops eating, having sex or being a regular monkey...forever), these people are drugged...the more people that watch and comment, the more they try to attract more people. They often get PAID for smearing feces on the wall.
All I can ask you to do at this point is to consider the network effect.
"exponential, benefit gained by users of a platform for each new user that joins the platform."
Exponential. Meaning more. VASTLY more. Like why BILLIONS use Facebook. You are effectively telling us that this makes little difference and that only a rifle in our hands means anything.
Not true. The Pen is MUCH mightier than the rifle.
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