Some exceptions are made...
Posted on 04/19/2024 3:43:33 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
“Social media isn’t real life.” It’s a phrase we hear a lot. But is that really true?
When Congress threatened to block China from controlling TikTok, the company riled up a mob of tweens to threaten Congress. If the Senate gives in, the outcome will be real enough.
TikTok certainly is real life. If you doubt it, look at the rate of teenage girls who have themselves mutilated because of trans trends on the app, even younger girls who killed themselves over material in the app’s algorithm or the spread of verbal or motor ‘tics’ to teens over the platform.
Social media isn’t real in the same way as the wind and the rain, or the laws of physics or economics, it’s an alternate reality spread through the internal realities of our minds.
Before social media, there was just media, the concentration of mass media, radio, film and newspapers that wrecked much of the twentieth century and killed millions of people. It is no coincidence that some of the most destructive social and political movements arose in line with the growth of the media. It’s impossible to imagine Nazism or Communism without the media.
What made people think that the Third Reich or the Communist revolution were viable? The Communists and Nazis were savvy propagandists who took full advantage of newspapers, film and all the elements of modern spectacle to concoct an alternate reality for millions of people. The crowds at Hitler rallies or Communist marches were living in their own version of the real world. And it was not until Hitler shot himself in his bunker or the Berlin Wall fell that they woke up to find that everything they believed had been as delusional as anything on TikTok.
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FR is a form of social media.
The real politics of criminal minds and those who enable/support them.
Kindred spirits. Hate cellphones. My only social media is here on FR. I turned off the TV 40 years ago and swore never to watch again. So far, I’ve kept my vow.
DITTO...I hate talking on the phone
Have to disagree on this one. If media were to suddenly disappear we would still be fallen human beings disconnected from our Creator. As a result, we look to ourselves and others to give us what only He can.
Media become the voice of god when the One Irue Living God is relegated to the dustbin of history.
Yeah, my wife was a TV addict. Even slept with the TV on, which I hated. Got divorced in 1977, left all the TVs with her; have never had one in my diggings since. Even when I’m in a hotel room, the TV stays off.
True, but only barely. Nobody posts pictures of cats or restaurant meals on FR.
True. We had Christ in our lives before the invention of moveable type, which was I would claim the first form of mass media. Media is not required for Redemption.
Some exceptions are made...
Don’t forget smoke signals 😁
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