Tahuyaman (02-16-2020)
I often wonder how humans allow themselves to be fooled and played in this play called life. Interesting reads below on topic.
"There’s little in this world that has the emotional manipulative power of a good tribalized — us versus them — narrative. It’s a contagion, and thanks to social media, or “participatory propaganda,” highly viral."
"Believing in conspiracy theories is a psychological construct for people to take back some semblance of control in their lives. It inflates their sense of importance. It makes them feel they have access to “special knowledge” that the rest of the world is “too blind,” “too dumb” or “too corrupt” to understand."
"I can explain the art and purpose behind throwing a Purple Heart veteran under the Fox News bus. First, we must talk about narratives. In my time at Fox News, narratives were weapons of mass emotional manipulation, what the Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller defines in “Narrative Economics” as “contagious stories” — as he put it in a paper of the same name, “a simple story or easily expressed explanation of events that many people want to bring up in conversation or on news or social media because it can be used to stimulate the concerns or emotions of others, and/or because it appears to advance self-interest.” One recent report said that we find information or misinformation “22 times more memorable in narrative form.”"
'Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient - As a former talk-show guest host on the channel, I can explain the art and purpose behind attacking Colonel Vindman.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/o...fox-news-.html
Articles linked in OP:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03084-4
and this:
"The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities to deeply felt values and needs. Narratives “go viral” and spread far, even worldwide, with economic impact. The 1920-21 Depression, the Great Depression of the 1930s, the so-called “Great Recession” of 2007-9 and the contentious political economic situation of today, are considered as the results of the popular narratives of their respective times. Though these narratives are deeply human phenomena that are difficult to study in a scientific manner, quantitative analysis may help us gain a better understanding of these epidemics in the future."
Robert J. Shiller Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance
https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul.../d20/d2069.pdf
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Agent Zero (11-23-2019)
How crazy alt righties got pwnd by a conervative web site:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlins.../#3b7ecb78e9b5
il·lib·er·ali(l)ˈlib(ə)rəladjective1.opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior
"illiberal and anti-democratic policies
synonyms: intolerant, narrow-minded, unenlightened, conservative, reactionary;
How crazy alt righties got pwnd by a conervative web site:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/berlins.../#3b7ecb78e9b5
il·lib·er·ali(l)ˈlib(ə)rəladjective1.opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior
"illiberal and anti-democratic policies
synonyms: intolerant, narrow-minded, unenlightened, conservative, reactionary;
Trump plays his base with an act of concern while in the background his only support is for image and his wealthy supporters. One wonders when Americans will wake and 'Make the White House Great Again'? Oh and make America concerned and proud again.
'President Trump’s Budget Hurts Veterans Through Extreme Cuts to Crucial Programs'
https://budget.house.gov/publication...ucial-programs
'The 2019 Trump Budget: Hurts Struggling Families, Shortchanges National Needs'
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federa...national-needs
"The Pentagon recently identified $3.6 billion worth of military construction projects it’s willing to kill in order to build 175 miles (282 kilometers) of border wall. The projects included a $63 million middle school in McConnell’s state of Kentucky, though most of the projects are outside the continental U.S."
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...s-senate-test/
'Trump is diverting another $7.2 billion in military funds to build his border wall''The funds transfer would bring the total amount devoted to border wall construction under Trump to $18.4 billion.'
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/210653...l-construction
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
I believe Obama had every genocidal maniac in Africa to a white house dinner. What a slime ball.
They finally caught up with Trump corruption on this issue.
'Trump Fined $2 Million Over Fishy Veterans Fundraiser'
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019...undraiser.html
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/p...-from-vietnam/
Wanna make America great, buy American owned, made in the USA, we do. AF Veteran, INFJ-A, I am not PC.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." Voltaire
Safety (06-10-2020)