Tag: mainstream

All of Your Advice is Kind of Outdated for the Problems that I’m Going Through

[… but] there’s all of this context to explain it — and so hopefully it’s a book that gives some compassion to that [viewspective?]

“What the Internet Did to Girls – Freya India” (“Walk-Ins Welcome #388“) [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-388 ], ca. 2:12 – 2:48

See also my current ongoing series (roughly about the “business plan” of “social media”):

I think at the end of the day: that’s populism

Under populism the feeling is very strong that they work for us — and they answer to us. And with these mainstream administrations — whether it’s Obama, Biden, George W. Bush, … — it’s like: well, the wise men are running the government, so we need to sit by quietly and let them do their important work.

John Kiriakou , Joe Rogan Experience #2392 , 2:13:05 – 2:13:38 (image clipped @ 2:12:40)

Are People “Exposed” (or “Siphoned Off”) to Echo Chambers?

Keywords: Journalists , Scientists

It probably matters whose opinion someone pays attention to:

If you open, say, a mainstream newspaper back in the day, [and] you go to the opinions section (like I’m an opinion writer), you’ll read …

https://www.jrepodcast.com/episode/joe-rogan-experience-2082-dr-debra-soh [ca. 1:29:10 – 1:29:25]

— yes: you’ll read something. You might agree or disagree with it, but the real question is: is it mainstream or is it echo chamber?

I generally don’t expose myself a lot in public. I prefer to express myself, thank you very much.