What Social Media Society has done since year 2013 is make discourse so horrific, conversations so terrible and bad, that anyone who asserts authentic goodness gives up. Catherine Fitzpatrick said this in 2014, and it’s become USA social media attitude. Dehumanize, mock, insult, insincere, mind-fuck, manipulate. Anyone with something positive and good to share has had mental breakdown or just learned to avoid goodness topics.
If you stay within tribal lanes or technical topic lanes, pro-technology, pro-famous people, you will get supporters. But if you speak and share ideas of goodness for all people, you will be insulted and mocked into giving up. All pro-goodness for everyone people gave up. It wasn’t just Malala in Swat Valley, Pakistan with the Taliban, it was a Internet-wide behavior that started to dominate in 2014 with the Putin Media Invasion / IRA. People have lost all ability to see how dehumanizing and bullying became all the time, and people just outright avoided drawing any attention that would get attacked for desiring goodness / progress of humanity. Marshall McLuhan extensively described this when he referenced “The Emperor Has no Clothes” and in his Vision 65 lectures about people being normalized by media.
“The newspapers have to have bad news, otherwise there would be only ads, or good news. Without bad news we could not discern the ground rules of the environment. This does not necessarily mean the environment is bad, but it means its operation upon us is total and ruthless. The environment is always the brainwasher, so that the well-adjusted person, by definition, has been brainwashed. He is adjusted.” - Marshall McLuhan, Vision 65 (October 1965)
“Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955
Good Friday April 18 2025 evening
What Social Media Society has done since year 2013 is make discourse so horrific, conversations so terrible and bad, that anyone who asserts authentic goodness gives up. Catherine Fitzpatrick said this in 2014, and it’s become USA social media attitude. Dehumanize, mock, insult, insincere, mind-fuck, manipulate. Anyone with something positive and good to share has had mental breakdown or just learned to avoid goodness topics.
If you stay within tribal lanes or technical topic lanes, pro-technology, pro-famous people, you will get supporters. But if you speak and share ideas of goodness for all people, you will be insulted and mocked into giving up. All pro-goodness for everyone people gave up. It wasn’t just Malala in Swat Valley, Pakistan with the Taliban, it was a Internet-wide behavior that started to dominate in 2014 with the Putin Media Invasion / IRA. People have lost all ability to see how dehumanizing and bullying became all the time, and people just outright avoided drawing any attention that would get attacked for desiring goodness / progress of humanity. Marshall McLuhan extensively described this when he referenced “The Emperor Has no Clothes” and in his Vision 65 lectures about people being normalized by media.
“The newspapers have to have bad news, otherwise there would be only ads, or good news. Without bad news we could not discern the ground rules of the environment. This does not necessarily mean the environment is bad, but it means its operation upon us is total and ruthless. The environment is always the brainwasher, so that the well-adjusted person, by definition, has been brainwashed. He is adjusted.” - Marshall McLuhan, Vision 65 (October 1965)
“Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955