[ExI] what did we learn?

[William Flynn Wallace]

I have changed the way I use the internet in just the past year.  We
understand how good news agencies have become at tuning their message
to their audience.  Everything became politics, celebrities and news
of the weird.  But that isn’t really what our world is about.  Those
things are an aspect of it perhaps, but not really what is happening.
If we over-focus on politics, celebrities and news of the weird, we
get a distorted view of the world.



spike*   OK - good - so what are the alternatives for the average
person?    bill w*



On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
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> >>…I guess my point was more in line with scapegoating the internet as an
> obvious solution once it's identified as THE cause of our current woes.
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> >…Maybe I was too clickbait-y, and sidetracked myself. What I was supposed
> to be suggesting was: What if it's our *use* of the internet (not the
> internet itself) that's the biggest problem? Analogy with fire. Or knives.
> Or just about any technology, really.
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> I have changed the way I use the internet in just the past year.  We understand how good news agencies have become at tuning their message to their audience.  Everything became politics, celebrities and news of the weird.  But that isn’t really what our world is about.  Those things are an aspect of it perhaps, but not really what is happening.  If we over-focus on politics, celebrities and news of the weird, we get a distorted view of the world.
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