“There’s also the fact that we all imagine ourselves to be somehow immune to the way that the information feed shapes our understanding of the world. But it is precisely the belief that we are immune to it that makes us so susceptible to it. It is because we don’t think advertising works on us that it works so well, it is because we think that, you know, propaganda can’t affect the way we vote that propaganda is so effective at changing the way we vote. We need to think harder about this stuff and not imagine ourselves as being people floating above a sea of information, and instead understand that we are fish swimming in that sea of information.”
“Yeah, the idea that we are at all separate from many of the things that go on in our culture is buck wild. It’s part of us, we’re part of it, we can’t separate ourselves from it, and just because something happened in a movie doesn’t mean we’re going to be that thing, it’s not like a direct 1:1 relationship, but everything that we do is informed by culture. We cannot escape that, so we have to be aware of it.”
(Oh so nicely succinct and well put. They are, after all, called hidden views and biases for a reason. Are you human? If yes, then you have biases. It isn’t about being good or bad, right or wrong, it’s just something we do. We create our reality, out of the many fragments that surround us, forget that we did, end up with biases, and then, in the immediacy of our lived experience, not recognize that those realities, views, and biases are acting upon us. Not to mention emotions and identities, the likes of which we totally pretend we are above and unaffected by. We get trapped, of a fashion. And the only way to not be trapped and hooked is to acknowledge that there is a trap, own our humanity, and practice being mindful to notice when the hooks come up. Then we remain free to see, to be, and to choose.)
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