Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights — Page 15
It is eye-opening to study the TV media from 3rd world nations. It's terrifying how self-biased, self-absorbed, and insulated it is. But then you have to go one step deeper and realize that your own culture's media is like this too when viewed from a neutral outside frame.
Study the local TV media of North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. It should leave you shell-shocked. These represent kinds of epistemic bubbles. By exploring these bubbles you get a sense for just how limited and self-biased the views of all cultures and peoples are. Imagine how limited your mind would be if you didn't know English and grew up in one of these 3rd world TV media bubbles and never learned any of the concepts from Actualized.org. Yikes! Yet that is most of the world.
But the hardest thing of all to see through is the epistemic bubble of American culture and media, because it is so polished, well-produced, and globally dominant. You can escape North Korea or Iran, but will you escape America?
More:
“Unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God: for the like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; raise yourself above all time, become Eternity; then you will understand God. Believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, all arts, all sciences, the nature of every living being. Mount higher than the highest height; descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God.” ― Giordano Bruno
Burned at the stake by Christians for contradicting their stupid dogmas.
Schools across America are adopting PragerU propaganda videos as official school content.
American conservativism is so stupid it's shameless. The most important thing for conservatives is to indoctrinate children into their flavor of closedmindedness. It only takes a few years to indoctrinate a child, and a lifetime of work to undo. It's asymmetric warfare against truth and reality.
Of course universities have their own kind of progressive bias and ideology, but it's not nearly as anti-reality.
There is a new on-going war for corruption of social media influencers for political purposes. This war has only begun and will get worse in the years to come. You cannot trust any popular social media influencer or political commentator to not be receiving payment for their positions and opinions. Generally speaking, social media influencers and personalities have no epistemic nor ethical standards nor oversight. That means they will readily take money from political actors to covertly promote their agendas and ideologies.
Billionaires, interest groups, and foreign governments are going to pay lots of money to purchase social media influencers. There are going to be scandals in this domain over the coming years. As mainstream TV news media collapses in popularity, podcasters, YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagramers, and social media celebrities will become the new vectors of corruption. Money and power follows the eyeballs. Any social media personality with a million or more subscribers will be under great pressure to accept bribes for peddling political propaganda and there is no policing nor transparency for this. They will also rationalize it to themselves as for the greater good. So it's going to get bad.
Be careful — liberals and leftists are not above corruption. Corruption is not a conservative-only problem. But just imagine how much worse the situation is for conservative influencers. You can't trust a single one of them not to be bought because they are epistemically shameless.
As I've said for a long time now, alternative media is going to be more corrupt than mainstream media. And that's coming true. Because there's no accountability and these people are uneducated amateurs. At least many mainstream media people have journalism degrees and they have huge pressure from such a big spotlight. Meanwhile alternative media is a dark alley where ghouls and vampires jerk each other off in the shadows of relative obscurity. You cannot trust an average Joe TikToker to have journalistic integrity.