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@mike69 saidIt rather depends on what you mean by "combined consciousness". If person X agrees with person Y about what person Z said ~ regardless of the medium of communication ~ does that mean X, Y, and Z have "combined consciousness"?
Yes fmf, if you wish to be childlike. Is tech creating a monster of confusion and hate of one another that protrudes out to us through our screen?
Do you agree, disagree feel it’s off a little?
Why, thoughts?
@mike69 saidIs tech creating a monster of confusion and hate of one another
Yes fmf, if you wish to be childlike. Is tech creating a monster of confusion and hate of one another that protrudes out to us through our screen?
Do you agree, disagree feel it’s off a little?
Why, thoughts?
I assume by "tech", you mean social media and the internet? There's certainly a great deal of unedifying stuff online but I think the self-same "social media and the internet" exaggerate its influence in terms of how many people it affects.
I think figures like Tucker Carlson are doing harm [I don't think he has a counterpart on the other end of the spectrum, otherwise I would mention one] but that's TV, it's not really "tech".
@fmf saidTalking of "spreading hate", I think Tucker Carlson is perhaps arguably the most notorious mainstream purveyor in the U.S. at the moment.
I think figures like Tucker Carlson are doing harm
But his influence is exaggerated I think. "Tucker Carlson Tonight remains No. 1 by a substantial margin, averaging 443,000 viewers from the measurement in Q1 2023. The Five remained in second (357,000) with Hannity (317,000), and Jesse Watters Primetime (304,000)". That's taken from adweek.com.
This means there are 331,557,000 Americans NOT watching Carlson each night. But he draws the attention of the rest of the media. And I think this serves to exaggerate the number of people who are affected by his various messages of alleged "hate".
This is still TV, though, rather than "tech".
@fmf saidOk, thank you for your input.
Talking of "spreading hate", I think Tucker Carlson is perhaps arguably the most notorious mainstream purveyor in the U.S. at the moment.
But his influence is exaggerated I think. "Tucker Carlson Tonight remains No. 1 by a substantial margin, averaging 443,000 viewers from the measurement in Q1 2023. The Five remained in second (357,000) with Hannity (317,000), and Jesse Watte ...[text shortened]... affected by his various messages of alleged "hate".
This is still TV, though, rather than "tech".
@moonbus saidMy "consciousness" is not "combined" with anyone else's, at least not in a way that those two words might conceivably mean when paired as a collocation.
The hate and fear are generated primarily by people who sign on to toxic narratives.
I don't see any of my views or behaviours, for example, or those I admire and agree with, as being metaphorically adjacent to "trumpets" or "plagues and destruction".
Such insinuations are, in and of themselves, a kind poisonous rhetoric tossed casually into the public domain.
The old "Are we our own Gods?" rhetorical gimmick is one used lazily by theists who live in parts of the world run largely by believers and followers of religions but who - high on their own supply of sanctimonious misanthropy - want to denounce and propagandize about the non-believing minority in their midst.
@fmf saidOk, thank you for trying and the effort.
My "consciousness" is not "combined" with anyone else's, at least not in a way that those two words might conceivably mean when paired as a collocation.
I don't see any of my views or behaviours, for example, or those I admire and agree with, as being metaphorically adjacent to "trumpets" or "plagues and destruction".
Such insinuations are, in and of themselves, a kind po ...[text shortened]... ous misanthropy - want to denounce and propagandize about the non-believing minority in their midst.
@mike69 saidYou have such a great mind and waste it on unsettled internal issues.
You have such a great mind and waste it on unsettled internal issues. May God be with you and his wisdom guide you my brother.
It is not an "unsettled internal issue". It's your terminology in your thread title.
Don't run away.