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I really want to respond to, and point out some things that I think are fallacies in your thinking. But I won't. What I will do is point out that your comment,

I really want to respond to, and point out some things that I think are fallacies in your thinking. But I won't. What I will do is point out that your comment, my desire to comment on it, and others decision to do just that -- that is precisely why the media focuses on low brow trash. It drives discussion, interest, and ultimately a nonstop target for clicks, which generates revenue. Now let's talk about the rover. Man isn't that cool. Yeah, it's cool. Wow. Yeah.. wow. See those pictures? Yeah. They're cool huh? Yeah. Yeah... It's quite unfortunate that there's now such a strong profit motive in pushing controversial and divisive topics. The internet was supposed to be the great uniter. Unforeseen consequences, as always.

PaulHoule 8y ago
I like that asteroid footage, I like anything about minor planets and dream that there will be a trillion people living in the Kuiper belt. That is not trash at all. The Buddha says that "enticing speech" is a sin and the primary difference between low brash trash and high brow trash is the size of the market. I think if you want to be transhuman in 2018, other than swimming with fins, you should be hacking your attention. I spent 4 years without looking at the mass media regularly and I then I got more normal and I can point the fallacies in my younger self's argument and find that there is something good in television, video games, etc. Facebook on the other hand turned into something like cigarette smoking in less than ten years. So if you want to get better than normal results consider your own attention and innovations that help people pay attention differently: anti-Facebook could be the basis of many a business.
- mojomark 8y ago
  I think you misread Tango's comment. He's not saying the asteroid rover landing is trash, quite the opposite. @Tango: I think you're right about the inability of most consumers of US media to form intelligent opinions and discussion about such abstract events. However, I would charge the media to convey the importance of such events. On the other hand, sadly, long gone are the days of consumption of in depth aggregated (the best & richest) media and also the personal investments of time people used to make consuming such rich content. Here are the days of real housewives of 'blank' (feel free to subsitute housewives for politicians). We can [must] do better.

PaulHoule 8y ago

I like that asteroid footage, I like anything about minor planets and dream that there will be a trillion people living in the Kuiper belt. That is not trash at all. The Buddha says that "enticing speech" is a sin and the primary difference between low brash trash and high brow trash is the size of the market. I think if you want to be transhuman in 2018, other than swimming with fins, you should be hacking your attention. I spent 4 years without looking at the mass media regularly and I then I got more normal and I can point the fallacies in my younger self's argument and find that there is something good in television, video games, etc. Facebook on the other hand turned into something like cigarette smoking in less than ten years. So if you want to get better than normal results consider your own attention and innovations that help people pay attention differently: anti-Facebook could be the basis of many a business.

mojomark 8y ago
I think you misread Tango's comment. He's not saying the asteroid rover landing is trash, quite the opposite. @Tango: I think you're right about the inability of most consumers of US media to form intelligent opinions and discussion about such abstract events. However, I would charge the media to convey the importance of such events. On the other hand, sadly, long gone are the days of consumption of in depth aggregated (the best & richest) media and also the personal investments of time people used to make consuming such rich content. Here are the days of real housewives of 'blank' (feel free to subsitute housewives for politicians). We can [must] do better.