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surely you recognized this as a wholly manufactured issue designed to, as everything is these days, further the bifurcation of reality by creating needless divi

surely you recognized this as a wholly manufactured issue designed to, as everything is these days, further the bifurcation of reality by creating needless division and strife over absolutely fucking nothing, just to give "the two sides" yet another thing to argue and demean each other about? the pattern is beyond obvious at this point, I really hope people are catching on.

genderwhy 4y ago
The pattern is the point. I don't think people are going to catch on because it's fun for them to ride the wave. If the man on the tv tells me M&Ms are not sexy anymore and that's bad, I have a week of outrage over it before he tells me gas stoves are good. Those outside of that loop see it as obvious, but when you are in it, it's real hard to get to the surface.
mrguyorama 4y ago
So gas stoves being fingered as the cause of 20% of all american children asthma cases is a "manufactured issue" now? You can buy an air sensor for $300 and confirm this issue yourself. I've never bought into the "gas stoves are better for cooking" nonsense that people always spout. I think they just fail to try and learn how an electric cooktop works, and just assume their way is the best way. I'm expecting commercial kitchens to make the move to induction, though I'm interested in hearing why that might not happen.
- adamrezich 4y ago
  since you're not seeing it, here's the pattern: first, the New Current Thing drops—out of nowhere. overnight, something that was a complete non-issue mere hours before, is suddenly a super important issue that everyone needs to have an opinion on. facts and figures are presented with minimal if any context, academic rigor, or peer review. half of the population believes it all, 100%, at face value, because these are Scientific Facts and Figures. there is zero admission of having just believed something completely different only hours earlier, possibly for their entire lives up until the day of the New Current Thing dropping. the other half of the population does not believe these things, continues to have the same opinions about the New Current Thing as they did the day before, and finds joy in being as obstinate about it as possible on social media. in mere weeks, if that, this New Current Thing will be completely forgotten—there will be no change of public policy, but politicians "on each side" may return to "their side's" take on the matter in future debates. rather, we will have moved on to the Next New Current Thing, which will follow almost the exact same pattern. (though, the "sides" may be reversed, depending on the topic at hand.) no positive change to society is achieved as a result. the only change is that people now have yet another reason to dislike each other, yet another insult-arrow in their get-mad-on-social-media-quiver. the chasm between the two common broad perceptions of reality widens. take note the next time a New Current Thing drops, and see how closely it dropping and the discourse surrounding it hew to this general heuristic. if you allow yourself to examine these things dispassionately and remove yourself from the resulting emotionally-charged discourse, you might notice that this sort of thing happens more frequently than you'd think. you'll start to become shocked at what people are willing to immediately believe and internalize as fact, wholesale, with merely the slightest possible nudging—and how the other side is content with merely hurling sarcastic insults right back at the other side, completely unaware that their side of the public discourse's role is also fully intentional, entirely planned for. it's all about reducing the signal-to-noise ratio and deepening interpersonal division.

genderwhy 4y ago

The pattern is the point. I don't think people are going to catch on because it's fun for them to ride the wave. If the man on the tv tells me M&Ms are not sexy anymore and that's bad, I have a week of outrage over it before he tells me gas stoves are good. Those outside of that loop see it as obvious, but when you are in it, it's real hard to get to the surface.

mrguyorama 4y ago

So gas stoves being fingered as the cause of 20% of all american children asthma cases is a "manufactured issue" now? You can buy an air sensor for $300 and confirm this issue yourself. I've never bought into the "gas stoves are better for cooking" nonsense that people always spout. I think they just fail to try and learn how an electric cooktop works, and just assume their way is the best way. I'm expecting commercial kitchens to make the move to induction, though I'm interested in hearing why that might not happen.

adamrezich 4y ago
since you're not seeing it, here's the pattern: first, the New Current Thing drops—out of nowhere. overnight, something that was a complete non-issue mere hours before, is suddenly a super important issue that everyone needs to have an opinion on. facts and figures are presented with minimal if any context, academic rigor, or peer review. half of the population believes it all, 100%, at face value, because these are Scientific Facts and Figures. there is zero admission of having just believed something completely different only hours earlier, possibly for their entire lives up until the day of the New Current Thing dropping. the other half of the population does not believe these things, continues to have the same opinions about the New Current Thing as they did the day before, and finds joy in being as obstinate about it as possible on social media. in mere weeks, if that, this New Current Thing will be completely forgotten—there will be no change of public policy, but politicians "on each side" may return to "their side's" take on the matter in future debates. rather, we will have moved on to the Next New Current Thing, which will follow almost the exact same pattern. (though, the "sides" may be reversed, depending on the topic at hand.) no positive change to society is achieved as a result. the only change is that people now have yet another reason to dislike each other, yet another insult-arrow in their get-mad-on-social-media-quiver. the chasm between the two common broad perceptions of reality widens. take note the next time a New Current Thing drops, and see how closely it dropping and the discourse surrounding it hew to this general heuristic. if you allow yourself to examine these things dispassionately and remove yourself from the resulting emotionally-charged discourse, you might notice that this sort of thing happens more frequently than you'd think. you'll start to become shocked at what people are willing to immediately believe and internalize as fact, wholesale, with merely the slightest possible nudging—and how the other side is content with merely hurling sarcastic insults right back at the other side, completely unaware that their side of the public discourse's role is also fully intentional, entirely planned for. it's all about reducing the signal-to-noise ratio and deepening interpersonal division.