Escaping The Cave

#17 - The Social Media Disease: The Illusion of Knowledge & Democratized Opinion

Technology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself.  Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: "my ignorance is equal to  your knowledge."

Also: 

-The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data.

-The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan.  

-What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars?

-When avatars attack

-A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Episode about Twitter, and more.  

 

Elias Aboujaode's Virtually You: 

https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-You-Dangerous-Powers-Personality/dp/0393340546

 

Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: 

https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750

 

Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death: 

https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1558613196&sr=1-1

 

 

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Detecting the Disinformation: Tribal Warfare, Slithering Fascism (2014)

Recorded in 2014 shortly before the first podcast ended, this episode discusses my initial Facebook purges, Trumpism (before Trump), the social damage inflicted by echo chambered disinformation (fake news) on facebook as well as the human inclination toward delusional tribalism. Not recommended for those looking for Sausage Party Hope! Definitely recommended for those wanting to reflect back on the not-so-distant past and reminisce on how we got here. And how things not only haven't changed, but gotten worse. 

 

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