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> Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will Being saturated by Modern Media is an exercise of Free Will. An attack is an act of force that requires activ
by ckastner 9y ago
> Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
Being saturated by Modern Media is an exercise of Free Will.
An attack is an act of force that requires active defense. The Modern Media is not forcing me to ready anything, nor do I have to actively defend myself against the Modern Media.
If turning of your cell phone for a period seems like an unfathomable task to you, perhaps you didn't have that much Free Will in the first place.
- dclowd9901 9y agoIf free will, as we understand it, is the ability to renounce things despite our brain injecting itself with endorphins while we're subjected to it, then you're right: it's quite nothing at all aside from having a strong constitution. The problem is we're talking about the manipulation of the brain's fundamental functions that undermine even low level thought processes (including determination). It's scarcely different than brain washing, and I don't think you can just blame the individual on this, when these efforts are aimed at the peak of the bell curve. This is something that we have to resolve or risk forfeiting civil society.
- ckastner 9y agoYour argument is sound, but nevertheless, I'd still argue that if one is susceptible to manipulations of this sort, there wasn't much Free Will to be DoS'ed in the first place. Manipulations of this sort have been effective long before Modern Media were a thing. I see them as just one instrument, but I don't believe that fixing this instrument will fix the problem.