12-02-2024, 03:31 PM
(12-02-2024, 03:20 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: i am thinking of things like the video in the op as a pinball machine, with two bumpers left and right bouncing the topic around with projection and reflection and finger pointing. bewildering chaos. my point about the overton window was that yes the contrast of the caricatures of stodgy-government-rearguard and the foxnews-vileright-hottie is a false one, because both of them see the audience as a commodity or a market to be entertained or informed according to their standards. they externalize people. much of the audience has tired of their pinball game and has wandered off to take a walk in the woods and they're still trying to make a newer shinier machine to bring them back into the arcade. maybe the get it and maybe they dont but they really can't ever admit it if they do because it would invalidate their business model and the games they make their living off, and thats fine because everyone needs some anchor of self-definition, but demanding that others remain chained to their old paradigms seems somewhat laughable.
looking to abc or sky for truth or trust is like asking a loanshark for financial advice.
it is like people who look for illumination or an escape from the mirrormaze by way of internet rants. they just don't get it.
My neurons are activating again. The contrasts was pretty striking and bizarre coming out of sky news, they just don't get it ja
IdeomotorPrisoner we normally post warning on local groups here when pets go missing. It happens in waves, best get used to it. Still don't have enough neurons to quote properly sorry
compassion, even when hope is lost