“These are the same people who would lose their minds if their city government told them they could only buy food from vendors the city had approved, licensed, and taxed at thirty percent of every transaction — who understand instinctively that such a system is about control and extraction rather than safety.

“They accept the identical arrangement from a private company without complaint because the phone is pretty and the UX is smooth and the alternative sounds hard.”

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#LearnedHelplessness #AbdicationOfAgency #BigTech #CorporateMasters #ProtocolsNotPlatforms

RE: https://mementomori.social/@juhani/116316794732185026

Maybe it was just a question of time, but #advertising has been out of control for far too long, and it will just get worse. With time, most have become numb, and entrenched in #learnedhelplessness.

The next frontier are our #dreams, which is actively researched[1], but our dreams are already affected merely through constant commercial bombardment in the environment we live in[2].

[1] https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/advertisers-are-hijacking-your-dreams-scientists-say/
[2] https://the-media-image.com/insights/market-insights/brands-entering-our-dreams-consumer-research-report/

I met an gen z who:

-Studies in vocational school in computer sciences. Developper track or helpdesk
-Gamer
-Has never build a PC
-Has never installed an OS
-In school HAVE to use Microsoft products for EVERYTHING!
-Is a really smart student

Is the schooling one reason why people don't yet use linux as much? Are some schools just Microsoft training centers?

#education #microsoft #linux #learnedhelplessness #bigtech

@ryan another thought i had from https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/id/eprint/1399/1/Poremba_Critical_2007.pdf when it comes to #brinkGames it's best or maybe necessary for people to break rules by their own volition, in some ways these games can encourage that, but is it possible to make people break the rules or is that a paradox? Similarly when it comes to players taking #agency and making their own rules collaboratively, can you build that into the game or does it have to come entirely from the players? This comes back to a thing ive been thinking about of how do you 'teach' people to have agency, or is that an oxymoron? Perhaps a game could foster this by having rules don't allow continuation unless a player decides to take the agency for themselves? How could that be encouraged, and maybe could it be a way to break people out of the mindset of #learnedHelplessness ?

#sociology

@CStamp @ZDL @mikelovesbikes @wendinoakland @todymotmot @profdc9 @GutterPoetry @zakalwe

you would think people would notice the extensive #psyop to convince the #left to not vote, via various methods: #learnedHelplessness, #toxicIdealism, premature empty cynical capitulation, "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" and other endless bullshit, and understand that what they should do is #vote