General Discussion

I thought of reality tv because I have been pondering this whole influence thing and how it works when you want to avoid it. It is a very trashy form of entertainment, but it seems to work by the mastery of emotion manipulation. That is all Trump has.

I forget which Shakespearean play it is from “neither a borrower nor a lender be”. But I like to extend that to influence “neither an influencer nor influenced be”.

Because a herd tuned and directed this way or that is scary..I think the planet is overpopulated and not enough resources are being spent on a complex species and a dictystelium fruiting body is not the best thing to emulate.

I saw a DUer mobeau6 once say that an educated populace is the only security against this state of affairs and it struck me. It was in reference to Jan 6 I remember.

DUers have often said things that stayed with me. I remembered them even during the worst years of my life when I was not even on DU.

I see life get cheap where it is over abundant. Our overlords globally are very ugly humans.