Masturbatory Egoism

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"Are you smarter than a 3rd grade school student?" .... Masturbatory Egoism of social media simulacra. Reactionary comment messages on social systems that boil down to: "I am smarter than Donald Trump", "I am smarter than Elon Musk", "I am smarter than Russia", the very low low bars of popular screen game show of people declaring they are smarter than others

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TOPIC: "a non-trivial percentage have been brainwashed to vote for idiots so rich people dont have to pay taxes. its not much more than that." <<< Brainwashed voting population (lemm.ee)

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Topic: Brainwashed Population programmed to vote

"The newspapers have to have bad news, otherwise there would be only ads, or good news. Without bad news we could not discern the ground rules of the environment. This does not necessarily mean the environment is bad, but it means its operation upon us is total and ruthless. The environment is always the brainwasher, so that the well-adjusted person, by definition, has been brainwashed. He is adjusted." - Marshall McLuhan, Vision 65 (October 1965)

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[–] RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A nontrivial number of people deluded themselves to not vote

a nontrivial number have lost their hearts and minds to Elon Musk X computer meme cloud computing systems and have no ability to tell they have done so. It's unbelievable what audiences of Rupert Murdoch's HDTV Fox News and Elon Musk X media platform believe / the alt-reality they live in. “What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.” ― Joseph Weizenbaum, MIT researcher / expert, 1974