The earthworm considers the hawk to be vile.
The hawk is a terrible digger and crawler. The hawk can’t appreciate composted vegetable scraps. Those big flappy wings and dangling claws, so ugly.
My point is, the world is large and you are small. So be humble, you are probably wrong about everything.
So you’d sacrifice individuality? That’s a good scifi one.
If The internet gets good enough with chips in our head and everything. I guess that’s what we’d basically have. Access to each other’s memories and senses. Just ghosts and an internet of flesh
A sacrifice is something you like and want to keep, but you’re going to give it up for a higher good.
Super better. All the important stuff free and top quality. Moonbase.
Not really a sacrifice if it’s something you don’t want
Would you sacrifice your flesh? No more body. Brain slurped out at birth, wired up to the internet.
Would you sacrifice your sex hormones? No more estrogen or testosterone.
If you understand your subject then you can use your own words, no need for citation.
If you do not understand your subject then citation will only make things worse.
If you put half the effort into your answer that you put into picking nits, a fine conversation might happen.
Shameless pedantry aside, what about my actual point?
One intended to persuade, yes.
We sometimes call that variety of advertising, “propaganda”.
Linux is dirt easy. Same desktop interface as Windows except easier and way way less bullshit.
A proper mindset would be a desire for a free, easy operating system.
So you grab a cheap old computer. Download the latest version of Debian. Install it (selecting the “Mate” desktop option, it’s my personal fave). And that’s it. Google any further questions.
I’m not referring to advertising in a metaphorical sense. I am referring to actual advertising.
Do you have any understanding of your own? This secondhand, copy pasted stuff rings hollow.
Advertising first occurred at 1000000000 BC when rhe first female dog advertised her availability by spraying pheromones into the air, thus persuading male dogs to etc.
(I should be getting paid for this)
If I address every silly claim I’ll be here all day.
Given this technology of persuasion (advertising). A technology that is insanely powerful (so powerful that convincing literally everybody of literally anything is a power that is comfortably within our grasp). What would it look like if everybody was persuaded to believe some total bullshit?
I mean what would it look like, to us, if we found ourselves in the midst of such a predicament?
Advertising is a method of persuasion.
It’s as old as civilization.
We advertise for various reasons, selling products is just one of them.
And yes, over time, we have developed new advertising techniques.
A body of techniques is what’s referred to as a “technology”.
That would imply that I am wrong about something and so are all my friends.
My cherished belief, in which I am heavily invested, upon which all of my important ideas are based, is actually total bullshit.
Given the choice between that hard truth and a tasty lie, I might choose the lie.
The artist is smarter than you.