RoundSparrowPeople in USA are constantly amused and entertained by Donald Trump. The population, We the People, celebrate ignorance day after day since June 16, 2015 in a never-ending attraction to stupid humor and comedy. A nation wrecked by dumb jokes.
Catherine is not complacent@RoundSparrow we aren’t all amused. Unfortunately a large percentage of our population would rather be entertained than governed. The rest of us get through the nightmare with dark humor with the understanding that That Creature cannot stand being mocked.
@CatDragon It really is not difficult or challenging to all go to the public library and locate one book.
All get on the same page. All get on one book and say: Hey, this is a well written book.It has 27 authors. Isn't 27 people enough? Do we need 49? 75? Or is 27 writers good enough?
Instead, people make comments on media platforms. Over and over and over. People can not resist their intimate touch screen, making comments about Donald Trump. Instead of removing Donald Trump, people keep wanting to create original combinations of words about Donald Trump.
People will not get on the same page and say...we all have a common problem.
This book was published October 3, 2017 - an intelligent and thoughtful woman organized 27 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dangerous_Case_of_Donald_Trump
@RoundSparrow Stop. I knew he was a festering pile of trash in the ‘80’s as did most of the people I know. Howard Stern picked him up as a controversial clown for his radio show. There are probably four degrees of separation or less on the east coast for people he did not pay for work done. I could name scandals you have never heard of.
And yet with all that enough people thought he was the fake persona they watched on that stupid reality show.
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And yet with all that enough people thought he was the fake persona they watched on that stupid reality show.
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@RoundSparrow short of assassination there was literally NOTHING we could have done. Families shattered over support, lifetime friendships burned to ash. The media was thrilled with him because controversy sells. Those of us who KNEW I mean fucking KNEW what the result would be were attacked by MAGAs who took him to be their savior. We stopped making eye contact or responding to strangers in public. I am weary of people who weren’t and aren’t here judging our lived experience.
@RoundSparrow as to the library? I support it financially and when the town budget comes up. As to the book? I have indeed read it but it told me nothing I didn’t already know.
@CatDragon " it told me nothing I didn’t already know."
In other words, you only care about one person, self. #EgomaniaUSA
Just like Donald Trump.
The problem isn't that people can not read a book. The problem is attraction to stupid commenting.
@CatDragon "short of assassination there was literally NOTHING we could have done."
#GunWorship ignorance.
People can go to the #NonFiction section of the public library and quote other people, book authors, instead of writing original unique comments. Mastodon comments. People can keep repeating those authors over and over and over and over and ask people to get "on the same page" of topics.
@RoundSparrow I am done. You have decided to paint every person as being ignorant, ill informed, and semi literate. I have no patience for judgement without solutions.
@CatDragon "I have no patience for judgement without solutions."
The SOLUTION is simple. Stop creating original English prose. Stop creating original content. Stop commenting on meme sites.
Quote the same books, keep quoting them, #RepeatingRepeater
@RoundSparrow if we only quote the same books where will new books come from?
@CatDragon You can go to ChatGPT and have it arrange every combination of original words and patterns of messages over and over and over.
That's the problem you don't seem to grasp. Everyone is on different pages.
In year 2010 a term was created to describe what created Donald Trump.
year 2011, 2010 ... is before the 2016 election of Trump.
#Trump is a product of Twitter-thinking #TwitterThinkNation
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"The term filter bubble was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser circa 2010. In Pariser's influential book under the same name, The Filter Bubble (2011). It was predicted that individualized personalization by algorithmic filtering would lead to intellectual isolation and social fragmentation."
Stop being attracted to your own original authoring and quote the same page of the same book and stick to quoting it. Declare it is more important than other topics. More important that the sports scores, video games, comic books, entertainment, banal dumb shit all around on media.
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“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It can lead us to deny, defend, minimize, or rationalize away something that doesn’t fit our worldview.” ― Dr. Bandy X Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Published October 3, 2017. Page 273. Chapter "TRUMP'S DADDY ISSUES"
@CatDragon Why are you commanding me to "stop"? Are you so addicted t Trump content you go around telling people to "stop" who call out how dumb and stupid 300 million people are.
Just because people think they know Trump is dumb does not mean they have resisted ignorance itself. Apple iPhone / Apple iPad / Android devices and Mastodon have made people super-dumb. Television news networks have made people ignorant and dumb.
The avoidance of nonfiction serious books, printed on paper, is evident in all the junk information people create and share. Self-evident.
@RoundSparrow I said stop because you are being patronizing.
@CatDragon You are the one commenting on my postings. You are the intruder here to defend the self-evident ignorance of a nation.
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by American sociologist and mass media scholar Neil Postman. "
