Hard to OVERSTATE how many people on social media are ignorant about Hybrid Warfare and don’t read December 11, 2020 analysis how Putin is defeating USA.: https://lemm.ee/post/60013341

  • RoundSparrow @ .ee@lemm.eeOPM
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    5 days ago

    They just pretend to be ignorant.

    I completely disagree. I question people about very basics such as the meaning of the pyramid on the USA dollar bill, money / currency, and they are completely ignorant. They think “13 is an unlucky number”, did the Founding Fathers of the USA think that? I don’t just accept what they say at face value, because people in the USA so often parrot Fox News or parrot memes of social machine systems.

    I suggest you study media ecology, the USA education systems have completely overlooked the need to teach people about these coherency problems: “It means misleading information–misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information–information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985 !BackTo1985@lemm.ee

    “[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985