My use of #hashtags is confusing a lot of people, good to have some signal in the noise on this subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext am using them in the way the #WWW was designed to use them.
#KISS
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My use of #hashtags is confusing a lot of people, good to have some signal in the noise on this subject https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext am using them in the way the #WWW was designed to use them.
#KISS
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters
in reply to vagabond • • •We typically found little to be confusing about your hashtags, once you explained them. For example, we didn't understand what you meant by #stupidIndividualism until you linked it to #postModern notions of individualism.
We absolutely love your #dotCons tag to describe the likes of the #CAGEMAFIA (eg. Cloudflare-Amazon-Google-TwitterBuyer-Microsoft-Apple-Fakebook-IBM-Akamai cabal).
We will continue to use that hashtag until the threat of #technoFeudalism is over.
sj_zero
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters
in reply to sj_zero • • •@sj_zero
Touche. Yes, individualism in many forms is bad, but there is a #postModern form that went unnoticed and indeed celebrated for decades and that is the, "if-you-believe-it-then-it-is-true" form, and it was basically allowed to permeate all forms of media, and the effects of which still affect us today.
sj_zero
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •So the modern skeptic question is "how do I know I exist", and one response to that was "I think therefore I am", but the postmodern extrapolation of that appears to be "I think therefore I am therefore I am whatever I think and so is everything else because I can't actually count on anything else objectively speaking"
And the danger of this becoming a major cultural force that's separate from standard modern liberal conception of individualism is that postmodern radical individualism that doesn't even agree that objective facts exist which contributes to the "two screens" problem we've got.
Am I on the right track?
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters
in reply to sj_zero • • •@sj_zero
That seems to be an example of it.
What do you mean by "two screens problem"? Is that where two people can see different statistics that can lead them down a path of towards division? Or something else?
vagabond
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •sj_zero
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters
in reply to sj_zero • • •@sj_zero
Yes, apparently a lot of #PRManagers and #writers for #politicians know how to write to two audiences at the same time. It's really one of the most #dishonest of skills.
Most of the time it seems to revolve around saying as little as possible and repeating #focusGroup-tested three-word-slogans, but entire speeches can be written that mean different things to different people.
sj_zero
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •I can absolutely believe that. Throw the right platitudes out without crossing the line into actually advocating anything, then you can say something two different people interpret two completely different ways.
I remember one election in the 2000s, and one of the things I said was "the worst thing a politician can ever do is actually tell you what they plan to do; if you don't say anything people can imagine whatever policy they want in your words. If you say what you're going to do then they can disagree with it".
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters
in reply to sj_zero • • •@sj_zero
Imagine if, by law, a candidate had to outline concrete #policies to be duly elected.
vagabond
in reply to Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters • • •@dsfgs @sj_zero
am more messy - imagine if people trusted each other.