*Anti-woke counterrevolutionary podcast focused on the invasive ideological species and the widespread confluence of money, boutique ”news” propaganda, psychology, and hyper-connective tech: The Social Media Disease. Videos on Spotify and ToddzillaX @ YouTube.
Episodes
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
More on agitation propaganda and the psychological effects of propaganda including: loss of individuality, suppression of critical thought, creation of the mob and how critical thought is literally impossible as part of a group, the creation of a fanatically self-righteous social "conscious" leading to the demonization of the out-group, and more on the sphere of the sacred. Then, how propaganda partitions society (identity politics) via verbal fiction creating sects of victims who only speak "to themselves."
Also:
- Propaganda's only heard by its choir creating alternate factual universes: The Echo Chamber
- Manchurian activists primed for provoked outrage & action: Marionettes
- The creation of an abstract verbal universe: Personal Realities spun from Collective Narratives & "fake news"
- Sacrificing self-dignity to "the cause" and the danger of surrendering to "something bigger than yourself"
- Stereophonic propaganda
- Reclaiming individuality by removing your dog from the fight: Privatized Detachment
Jacques Ellul's "Propaganda": https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Formation-Attitudes-Jacques-Ellul/dp/0394718747
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Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Congressional grandstanding for the cameras, Mueller's testimony: viewed and spun in parallel universes, deciding whether to read the report, voting your own self-interest (Yes! Do it!), the Current Events Man, asking the right questions, when boutique news becomes fatal, and the sacred Golden Calves.
Also:
- Leaving the mob
- Evolution lurks
- Mythology and the Devil within
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Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
The extreme left's totalitarian purity test and its search for Utopia's messiah; self-righteous moral certainty and the narcissistic narratives of the secular humanist religion. Then, agitation propaganda creates armies of proselytes and militants while unleashing an uncontrollable and destabilizing primal hatred for "the evil other." No one's immune; would you even know if you're devouring propaganda?
ALSO:
- Silent Collaborators
- The Sunday School of political insemination
- Political missionaries always rapping at the smart phone's door
- Being right vs. "looking" right
- Ignoring history
- You're solely responsible for protecting and maintaining your own mind
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Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Chris & Rich sit in on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. We discuss the achievement, the courage of those undertaking it, and how subsequent generations were cheated of their signature crowning moment in history.
ALSO:
-Data overload, informational suffocation, and how the compulsive "current events man" is actually less informed.
-Are we "really" evolving?
-Patriotic appreciation vs. copycat anti-Americanism
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Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 08, 2019
"He who defines is your master." More on twisting definitions as a malicious propaganda tool, how institutional propaganda systems affect a population, and where a species oblivious of its own shortcomings ultimately ends up.
Also:
-Communing with the organic dead
-There's no such thing as collective critical thought
-Intelligence as a handicap
-Foreshadowing a Walter Lippmann re-think
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Thursday Jun 27, 2019
Thursday Jun 27, 2019
Are we representing ourselves accurately via these one dimensional social media avatars? I update the digital detox progress and talk about my over-amplified virtual projection, Toddzilla, destroying meaningful relationships, how the tweet is in the eye of the beholder, missing a funeral for a friend, and maybe a faint glimmer of not-so-Sausage Party Hope.
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Friday Jun 21, 2019
Friday Jun 21, 2019
Hi New Zealand! Find yourself logging onto to the LaBrea Twitter Pit or Facebook and suddenly you've lost far more time to it than you intended? Me too. More on Digitally Enhanced Avatars, Digital Detox as a treatment for a distorted virtual perception/socialization as well as depression, anxiety, cynicism, and generalized anger.
Also,
-The universal nature of both our inner and shared stories
-Propaganda is a story.
-What happens when conflicting propagandas collide?
-Social Vengeance Warriors moving beyond "justice" and discrimination into thought control.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Thursday Jun 13, 2019
Todd, Rich, and Chris discuss the unwiring of social evolution, totalitarian tribes spawning skittish clones, and an exhausted "center" with nowhere to land that's not infested by puritans. Also: the outright refusal to see our own team's propaganda, the "wisdom" of youth, and more on thoughtless opinions and how "branding" affects Social Media Political Influencers.
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Cyber Space Monkeys continued. In part 1-of-3, I'm joined by Chris & Rich to discuss the effects of social media on individuals and society as a whole. Propaganda kerosene and the disinformation detonator, the connection between road rage and net rage, much of the IDW: for-profit social media brands and "right adjacent" influencers producing "content" for handouts, Nicholas Carr and how the Internet physically changes our brains, good deeds done solely to post the selfie, and more.
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Friday Jun 07, 2019
Friday Jun 07, 2019
No Politics! Lots of drilling to the "get the f**k away from me!" meltdown core.
-Bulls**t Jousting
-The truth probably won't set you free
-Sausage Party Hope and the fueling Audacity of Belief
-How & why disinformation works: a first person play-by-play.
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Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Lippmann. At 35:25: The difference between clever & smart and more on the DIKW pyramid and what happens when citizens ignore corrupt data.
The first 35-minutes:
- Justin Amash and the criticism from the left.
- Mueller's fumble and the Democrat's ensuing demand that he star in their 2020 reality show/campaign ad.
- To Impeach or not Impeach: just do it or STFU!
- Democrats are politically impotent to stop anything Trump does. How does that "protest vote" look now?
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Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
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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Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones.
Also:
- Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them
- Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency
- The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism
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Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
Haidt's elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. "Evolution didn't end with opposable thumbs."
- The thin veneer of civilization
- Self-dehumanization
- Extremists v. Moderate
- The Social Media Disease
Tuesday May 07, 2019
Tuesday May 07, 2019
Parties, their power-first representatives and constituents, fundamentalist ideologues, extremists, etc. are failing everyone.
Government institutions are melting down and the faith of the governed along with it.
Hey! What could possibly go wrong?!?
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Saturday May 04, 2019
Saturday May 04, 2019
Confused as to why your righteous demands aren't being met? Behold!
- Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together
- The Grand Design & Ideological Religions
- Making Enemies of Allies
- Haidt's Elephant
- Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind
- External Truth and Reason
- Authoritarian creep
- No Hitler references!
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Saturday Mar 24, 2018
Saturday Mar 24, 2018
First Social Media Disease antibiotic treatment. Starting with an X-Pod flashback to 2014, Todd discusses Cambridge Analytica before turning to more recent effects of our collective addiction to social media on society and how a bilateral abandonment of a commitment to basic common facts--in favor of tasty propaganda--is having a dehumanizing effect and rapidly eroding the social contract. Also: cyber space monkeys, avatars showing off for each other in the Matrix, and the digital-organic hybrid: meme belching Cyborgs.
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Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Recorded shortly after Robin Williams committed suicide in 2014, this was one of the most popular episodes from the old podcast. It covers many topics Friar Chris and I discussed in the previous podcasts, including the fraud of "normal", misguided identity, the emptiness of success, depression, and the performers need for praise and validation. Some of the early ideas surrounding the Social Media Disease such as personal “branding” and virtual facades are here as well as kernels of things that will become familiar to the regular listener, such as The Marrow of Humanity.
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Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
In this politics-free second of three, I continue chatting with Chris Dyson about his walk from Savannah, Georgia to Seattle which included enduring a turbulent breakup on the side of US-287 in northern Colorado, getting lost in rural Wyoming, and anecdotes and observations about some of the fascinating people he met along the way. Deeper topics include self-generated baseless fear, choosing existential isolation in the name of personal security, internal narratives, religion & spirituality, restless escapism, travel and aging, and more. (E)
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