After rotting in my queue for a couple of months, and one too many recommendations, I finally watched The Great Hack on Netflix. This feature-length documentary is worthwhile as a means to understand how our stolen data is not only being sold, but used to exploit the hole in our psychological firewall to manipulate and "trigger" what they call "persuadables" into a desired response or action. Or, non-action. It's essential if you're more than slightly interested in the subject. But...
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1/12/20: The Great Hack & The Great War of The 21st Century
After rotting in my queue for a couple of months, and one too many recommendations, I finally watched The Great Hack on Netflix. This feature-length documentary is worthwhile as a means to understand how our stolen data is not only being sold, but used to exploit the hole in our psychological firewall to manipulate and "trigger" what they call "persuadables" into a desired response or action. Or, non-action. It's essential if you're more than slightly interested in the subject. But...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
10/30/19: Disinformation '16, Weaponized Truth, Hillary The Halloween Zombie
This episode focusses mostly on disinformation and interference in the 2016 election and includes selected clips from the Your Undivided Attention podcast episode "From Russia With Likes" (#1) featuring disinformation expert Renée DiResta. Her expertise connects incredibly well to my Propaganda series. Topics include: the seemingly innocent methods used by the Russians exploiting personal identity to create online communities that can be manipulated via agitative identity politics later on, The Call to Action: The Manchurian Propagandist, more on the propaganda dopamine connection: validation, attacking trust in political institutions and the media, anger and apathy, exploiting freedom of speech, and the silliness of the "Global Public Square.
Listen to Your Undivided Attention here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/
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Listen to Your Undivided Attention here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/
ALSO:
- Hillary: probably right about Tulsi Gabbard
- Hillary: definitely right about Jill Stein
- Hillary: absolutely a Trump asset
- Hillary: continue your role as a public servant. Retire. Quietly.
- Americans subsidize European entitlements
- Trump's "foreign policy" could lead to universal education
- Media and Information Education: stat!
- Be sure you're subscribed to "Escaping The Cave"
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
10/24/19: Presidential Anarchy, Goebbels' Ad Company, and a Prayer
Trump's not actually retarded, is he? Pray with me, won't you?
Also:
*Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com
Also:
- Quitting smoking: it sucks
- No, seriously. I prayed.
- Nicholas Carr and the "influencer"
- Joseph Goebbels and Edward Bernays
- My poor little podcast is attacked by a zombie
- Happy Halloween?
- Fu*k Twitter
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Wednesday, October 9, 2019
10/09/19: Pinching The Impeachment Loaf
Are you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works: the wide-angle agitation propaganda lens. First, a virtual colon cleanse in the form of a micro-pod.
ALSO:
ALSO:
- Fuck Twitter
- Twice
- Hard
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*Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn't absolutely suck.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
10/01/19: Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary Hatred
An introduction to LeBon, his ideas on mobs, and The Psychology of Revolution--specifically hatred. The forthcoming electoral reality show, 2020's prepared script, how the spinoffs will be cast, and what happens when our Matrix Avatar Superheroes stumble into the Desert of the Real.
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ALSO:
- Unrealistic expectations in the steaming pile of Twitter
- Was it your childhood dream to be Saul Goodman?
- More on pseudo-environments and internal narratives
- Fcuk Twitter
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Friday, September 27, 2019
9/27/19: Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob
Institutions fail and democracy descends into mob rule when representative are paralyzed and terrorized by fear of their voters. Trump, Ukraine, and 2020's year-long electoral reality show disguised as an idealistic impeachment. Informational sectarianism and how it's easy to see "their" propaganda. Yours? Never! Their demagogue is your savior. There may be a way for a detaching informational unicorn treat that. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper; when everything is spin and propaganda, who's a political infidel supposed to believe?
Also:
Also:
- Alternate Informational Universes
- Half-assed media sophistication: not enough
- Why can't we watch the opposition's media without going nuts?
- Our dueling scandals aren't automatically mutually exclusive
- More on the the Current Events Man
- Media isn't free. You are the product being sold.
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*Also check out www.christophermedia.net & www.escapingthecave.com
*Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and and podcatcher that doesn't suck.
*Also check out www.christophermedia.net & www.escapingthecave.com
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