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This is basically all of media now, there is no such thing as objective media of any kind anymore, everything produced is meant to pander to some group or another.
Even if we accept the passing of the internet, we have to also understand that this is how it's going to be always, forever. Unless social attitudes broadly change, this is just what the world is going to do with recordable content from now until eternity.
Everything you see, no matter your political ideology or attitude or values, is cultivated and selected just for you to reinforce your beliefs even if that reinforcement is inaccurate.
A few of you reading this are going to frown and downvote and roll your eyes, and to this I warn you: the more you think you're outside of this system, or the more you think you're invulnerable to manipulation... the more vulnerable you really are.
I can't be the only person on here that's fully off the algorithm/surveillance grid. It's still possible to get caught in bubbles the old-fashioned way, I guess. I try to listen to something/someone new and weird every once in a while.
I basically only use Youtube to watch let's plays (video games) never dipped my toe into other media site to see how it tries to show that stuff. Then if I need something new to watch I'll find newer games I may be interested in and search accordingly or watch older videos of people that I enjoyed.
I'm sure that keeps me in the bubble of entertainment vs political stuff but really I've rarely seen that stuff pop up. I'd probably stop all together if I only saw some of the crap I've heard of people's experiences.
New can be interesting but rather just prefer a good player explaining why they're playing like they do. Some strategy games (paradox) can be quite complicated to understand the finer points. Makes life better not hearing/watching dumbasses.
No you're right, the only way to win the game is to not play.
As long as you're staying aware of what you're taking in, and you regularly think about how you're thinking, you'll be miles ahead of the broad swath of humanity.
At first I frowned and rolled my eyes Then I read that and thought, Hmm yeah they're probably right I'm in my own privately curated echo chamber. But, it can't be all that bad if that private echo chamber is all about compassion and empathy, right? Sometimes living in a bubble can be a bit healthy right? I dunno, rambling.
Some of us are bombarded by right wing propaganda off the internet. When I come home, I don't want to be bombarded by it online. You want to know what radicalized me? Being "conservative presenting" and getting to hear what republicans really think when there's not a minority or "liberal" in the room. None of them have a single idea of their own and just revel in cruelty. That's what they think offline and when they think they're in "good company." Online, they just engage in bad faith arguments and it gets tiring counting them constantly.
That's a good point, what do we choose to feed ourselves? There's massive industry built around people's food diets and almost no attention paid to what our media diets are like and what they're doing to us.
I think at the end of the day we all need to really understand how maliable our brains are and how easily we can change the way we think just because of the stuff we're watching or listening to, and this has been an unpopular topic for a long time because it makes people worry that what they enjoy might not be good for them, but I think as long as we stay aware and keep our diet varied enough we probably will do a lot better than people who just mindlessly draw emotions from people shouting on Twitch streams all week long.