Escaping The Cave: The Toddzilla X-pod

"The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed." A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. People can't personally perceive the world beyond their own sliver of firsthand experience. Therefore, the Current Events Man is beholden, dependent upon, and therefore exploited by the propagandist and his digital distortions. If democracy is demands an "enlightened citizenry", it's likely doomed from the start. Paradoxically, there's a stab at some hope in here too. Weird.  ALSO: Te Nosce, bitches  Competing Scandals; Competing Networks; Competing Narratives  Smoking, Facebook, and associative dopamine addiction.     The Matrix and the Internet The responsibility and danger of exposing "their" delusion All Cats Meow Why we believe the ridiculous Finding hope in human imperfection More on likability and art The Hobgoblin   Where the hell is Jill Stein? #NeverForget   *Like it? Share it. You are the "marketing" team.