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Just thinking about how we're in a cultural period of examining how ideas enter into people's heads. Inception, R*d p*lls, Disco Elysium, meme culture, and yesterday I just played a game called Griftlands where you can play a card game to 'incept' ideas into people's heads.On twitter.com
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Westworld arguably falls into this category of media as well. So do a few other less successful pieces of media. I think we're hitting a real moment where our entertainment is trying to handle what it means to 'manufacture consent' when it is happening all around us.Permalink On twitter.com
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What a lot of these get right is how it just makes all communication so much harder & more draining b/c you never know who has decided to take some shitty piece of misinformation, make it a part of their core worldview, and is going to talk about it like it is just a fact of lifePermalink On twitter.com
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Then there's a huge cognitive load to just recognize what's happening, that someone's normalization of some shitty dumb internet post is sneaking into your brain and you have to put energy into debunking it for them or setting up a firewall where you just have to block that out.Permalink On twitter.com
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I particularly like how Disco Elysium shows this whole process as both ludicrous & dangerous. The whole thing is dumb, dumb as P*zz*G*te is, which is to say -- foolish on its face. But you soak in any dumb idea long enough without the right immunity, you get compromised.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also... I hate how it makes it harder to talk to people, especially now everyone is stuck inside & soaking in the internet. Like... now everyday conversations are fraught with misinformation about... minor minor things that seem not even worth getting upset about.Permalink On twitter.com
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So do you challenge a dumb minor conspiracy theory in a convo with or just let it go & hope it isn't leading them into something really bad? That happens and you don't want it to!Permalink On twitter.com
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B/c sometimes you get a friend who wrongly thinks fluoride is bad or soy makes you effeminate and you wave your hand and are like *uhhh I don't think so* and move on and it ends there, and sometimes they turn into weird survivalists or join a YouTube cult over it.Permalink On twitter.com
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