"I miss the Information Age because the Influencer Age really sucks"

[Budi]

@reclaimthefight
I say, much too often, that I miss the Information Age because the Influencer Age really sucks.
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Quote of the day ~

[peacebuzzard]

1. yup. its a cheap shot for advertising

and transforms logic to quips.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Some of the people who so called influenced others (their dubious claims) are a joke.

Just because they have XXX number of views/viewers etc. means somehow that they deserve freebies, etc. from retail establishments etc. if they give a 'shout out' to their viewers about their products etc. IMHO, this is a joke and I don't need some young kid/teenager or the like telling me what to do / to buy / etc.

These people are giving the entire field a bad rep and the honest ones who do use their genuinely earned influence to truly swing some sales towards reputable companies. Everyone is trying to grab a piece of the pie I guess, even if they have 100 or so followers or the like, they're an influencer.

[Layzeebeaver]

3. Sorry but since the 50's it's entirely been "The Advertising Age"

Everything is an ad these days.

(just posted that as @SkippytheKanga4)

[Hortensis]

4. He said it, all right. Horrifying how influence stories are

mindfucking the "understanding" of millions, by rewriting history, current events, who we are, morality right in their heads.

Not just cyberwar agents working for a state. Any halfway clever sociopath who can't get a job with a respectable information source can claim to have inside information on social media and develop a following who open their heads for his manipulation and profiteering.

[Maxheader]

5. used to be financial gurus commanded the high paycheck.

Now it's experts in social demographics. Understanding what

the consumer wants. ...

[Hortensis]

6. Manipulators do require people to give them access to their heads.

They now know so much more about how the brain works and have developed very sophisticated techniques to subvert it. Reading a few articles like me doesn't begin to cover it, and most people don't even begin to suspect how far it goes beyond jingles telling you to eat your Cheerios.

The consumer doesn't want his favorite delusions used to change who he is into someone he would never have wanted to be, and that's what's happening, much less turn him to destruction of his own society, ruining the futures of all he cares for.

[John Ludi]

7. The documentary

The Century of the Self is a good use of around four hours to see the history...and trajectory...of how we've arrived here and where we are probably going (by inference). Constant triggering of the limbic system and base motivators for decades has created an incredible level of systemic psychological dysfunction in our culture. The Influencer Age is the next step into the abyss.

Glub glub glub...

[hatrack]

8. Mass suicide by endorphin hit . . .

Beats Flavor-Aide, I guess.

[John Ludi]

9. I can't remember

exactly the name of the experiment or the exact way that they played out, but at one point researchers wired the pleasure centers of rat brains to a button/lever that would trigger those centers...with the result that a fair amount of rats died of starvation after a while.

I kind of think our whole culture is doing that in macrocosm now.

[aocommunalpunch]

10. That's all Boebert and Greene are: influencers.

Generating outrage brings the clicks. They're not representing anything but themselves.