“If you ever feel like you have responsibility for something simply step outside of it and interrogate then sell the narrative of interrogation.”
This line helps me understand every parent that monetizes their child / home / family via YouTube. Regardless if the interrogation is presented as authentic or just blatantly commercial.
That's because the hyper personal is supposed to be expressed through myth to transmit properly. Culture is transmitted through myth and there are real stories immbedded in it that the subconscious can understand and the conscious mind is not meant to.
"Propaganda is the phrase 'you’re not supposed to do that' repeated by the populace as it is transformed into the pitiless censor of itself."
So...would (most?) *traditions* then qualify, specifically the ones that seem to be conducted without connection to their ostensible raison d'etre? I suppose they fall in a slightly different category, 'you're *supposed* to do that.'
Surprisingly good, glad I saw this. I find it embarrassing that people just jump on everything like a Kanye song right after his whole sexual thing with his cousin or something (though I don't interact with news networks, I unfortunately get second hand information by being minimally on social media lol) is like a type of humiliation ritual by proxy for the right. People are so easily guided all over the place like during Trump's first term the second a runway was attacked everyone became moral nutcases as if it were Armageddon instead of posturing. That made me leave social media for awhile lol because I find the fickleness annoying. Moral attonment/condemnation signaling especially get me ready to completely detach from any social media lol... Humanism abounds!
“If you ever feel like you have responsibility for something simply step outside of it and interrogate then sell the narrative of interrogation.”
This line helps me understand every parent that monetizes their child / home / family via YouTube. Regardless if the interrogation is presented as authentic or just blatantly commercial.
That's because the hyper personal is supposed to be expressed through myth to transmit properly. Culture is transmitted through myth and there are real stories immbedded in it that the subconscious can understand and the conscious mind is not meant to.
"Propaganda is the phrase 'you’re not supposed to do that' repeated by the populace as it is transformed into the pitiless censor of itself."
So...would (most?) *traditions* then qualify, specifically the ones that seem to be conducted without connection to their ostensible raison d'etre? I suppose they fall in a slightly different category, 'you're *supposed* to do that.'
Thank you, Dimes. This is an excellent post, imo.
Amusing ourselves to death mentioned 🎉
Surprisingly good, glad I saw this. I find it embarrassing that people just jump on everything like a Kanye song right after his whole sexual thing with his cousin or something (though I don't interact with news networks, I unfortunately get second hand information by being minimally on social media lol) is like a type of humiliation ritual by proxy for the right. People are so easily guided all over the place like during Trump's first term the second a runway was attacked everyone became moral nutcases as if it were Armageddon instead of posturing. That made me leave social media for awhile lol because I find the fickleness annoying. Moral attonment/condemnation signaling especially get me ready to completely detach from any social media lol... Humanism abounds!
That was one helluva read. Great stuff!