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[matrixmann]

Media ruins the logical thinking of people. Lacking reality experiences, and increasing the lack by taking in what they say, people adopt the logic of amateurs which don't know exactly what they're talking about.
They get filled with wrong and simple information which doesn't reflect physics or historical content.
It is a second dimension which exists virtually; its news and its contents work in this sphere, but nowhere else.
There're as far off reality as the moon is from the earth.

But because people lack knowledge about reality, they tend to believe these simple-minded world views.
They don't know that there's not just a few moderates who fight an evil regime, but the same group which received weapons and means for the last few decades, they don't know that there's not just a revolution going on, but foreign forces paying and enlisting activists for an issue they've been planning all along abroad and they don't know that it's not whole political parties but single persons who are member of a certain society which never is mentioned which advocate certain political changes.
They believe it's about culture fights if there's an armed upheaval, if it's about a woman being fired from a high position that it's because of her being the frame that she is.

They get urged to think with a mind that's been built up by stories that fairytale writers invented.
None of that reflects reality, but owning nothing which verifies the given information which could possibly tell them about the discrepancy in between, the assumption remains that this world works that easily.

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

And people have also been taught that their opinion is just as important and valid as an experts. So you see these people lacking knowledge of reality, but utterly convinced that their ill-informed opinion is just as 'valid' as the experts.

[matrixmann]

Would rather say it's the syndrome of parrot-like repeating what they've seen. "I've seen this on TV, so it must be true!", "I've seen this on the internet, it was very convincing!"
You know, someone tells them a story and within their already fucked up sense for logic they find it convincing as hell and so they repeat it to everyone who comes by or who opens up the topic.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

It amazes me these days just how low the bar is on something becoming 'true', like, once somebody has seen it re-tweeted once, it becomes a 'fact'.

Reality has never been so thin.

[matrixmann]

Think this is a result about what I complained above.
A combination of lack of will and lack of ability to check what is told in its material reality.
But I think because of the lack of knowledge of technical possibility, because everyone assumes his reality works like a Hollywood movie, they don't even come to the will to check something for its substance.

Since I see that reality and physics are completely different in the reality than in fiction, fiction has started to bore me off. Because I do see that things are synthetic. And since then, if in doubt, always try to look it up, always try to check it exactly. (Sometimes even a search in the engine helps you if you see which sources report a thing and which sources don't report a thing.)