Subj : Re: Computers
To   : FISSILE SYNTAX
From : MIKE POWELL
Date : Thu Jul 18 2024 08:01:00

³ MP> I feel like that has to do with people gravitating to social media sites,
³ MP> especially those that echo their own beliefs, for social interaction that
³ MP> they don't get on news sites.
³
³ A lot of this is the sense of seeking out a frame of reality which matches
³ one's own.  I read, in a disciplined way, across the political spectrum, and
³ the one constant I notice is the belief that one position on that spectrum
³ approximates reality as it currently is, with other positions being distortions
³ and the people who hold those positions being deluded in some way.
ÀÄ[FS=>MP]
 
Very insightful, and true.
 
³ I am a skeptic of my own frame of reality.  I know that I've changed my mind on
³ a lot of issues over time.  But as a consequence of this, I've never really
³ trusted anyone's take on "how things really are," regarding well-written
³ opinions as, essentially, elephant parts.  The smartest people on different
³ parts of the spectrum give me a limited, partially-insightful perspective, and
³ I try my best to synthesize this into a flawed, sloppy, but perhaps workable
³ approximation of reality as it truly is.
ÀÄ[FS=>MP]
 
"Experts" on both sides reflect their position on the spectrum in their
opinions for certain, making the truth more difficult to find.
 
³ People's assuredness about their views of the world adds a weird kind of
³ surreal screwheadeness to the whole affair.
ÀÄ[FS=>MP]
 
Sort of reminds one of those sci-fi (and mock sci-fi) movies and shows
where someone under the influence of the prevailing view seems so
confident that this view is correct and makes perfect sense.
 
The Twilight Zone episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" is an example of
what I mean.
 
³ Social media, as you point out, really does concentrate people into narrative
³ feedback loops which encourage viewing a subjective experience as some kind of
³ apprehension of objective reality.  And when you read carefully across the
³ spectrum, one constant you notice is how horribly people misrepresent the
³ opinions and motivations of their opposition.
 
Yes, they have a tendency to grab onto the opinions and motivations of the
most radical members of the opposition without taking into account there
are other, more rational people who beieve the same things, but for more
thought out reasons.
 
³ All of this makes me skeptical that anyone really knows what is going on.
ÀÄ[FS=>MP]
 
I am not certain that the people behind some of the things that happen even
know what is going on.
 
Mike
 
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