The diktat of entertainment: We no longer fight for truth, but for rightness. Truth is heavy, unwieldy, slow. Equality is light as a feather; a flashy hashtag, a shiny pixel. It is not about what is true, but what feels true. 🧵 - ThreadSky

doemela.bsky.social • 51 days ago

The diktat of entertainment:
We no longer fight for truth, but for rightness. Truth is heavy, unwieldy, slow. Equality is light as a feather; a flashy hashtag, a shiny pixel. It is not about what is true, but what feels true. 🧵

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doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

We wage an endless battle in echo chambers full of affirmation, trapped in the acoustics of our own rightness. Meanwhile, the world burns. Literally. The air shimmers, oceans boil, animals disappear. But who is watching that, when a new TikTok trend goes viral?

doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

Why worry about melting ice caps when you can join yet another online feud on X? The digital theatre is running at full speed, with every day bringing a new show, every controversy, a new drama. And we, the audience, cheer, cry, click but never rise from our seats.

doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

This displacement the demolition of meaning, the diminution of complexity, erodes the foundation of our democracy. Technology, once the promise of progress, now feeds us ‘AI slop’ superficial, algorithmically generated drivel that amuses, blinds and cripples us.

doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

As Neil Postman warned in Amusing Ourselves to Death: "We do not lose ourselves in tyranny, but in triviality. We are oppressed not by violence, but by an endless stream of manipulated stories that exactly fit our world view, illusions packaged as truth."

doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

They spin alternative truths that seduce millions (with AI-generated images), which floats on emotions, not facts, not because they are accurate, but because they shine. This is no longer politics, this is theatre. The danger?

doemela.bsky.social•51 days ago

That these artificial realities not only divide us, but also hand us over to power structures that keep feeding us exactly what we want to hear. But what happens when AI breaks that reality into pieces, replaces it with an illusion, and then traps us in the comfort of our own

gl1tchd3v.bsky.social•51 days ago

well stated 🙏

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