Bard spotting on Bluesky 03 October 2024

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Did you know that people can be persuaded to behave sociopathically, narcissistically, sadistically, to be open to manipulation and employ manipulation themselves, and they often will not even realise it's happening, or will rationalise away the objections arising from others or their consciences

spookos.jpg 👻🪟 (@vortexegg.regretfully.online):

Something we have to reckon with is the possibility fascism isn't some aberrant and exceptional political movement, but is instead inherent to a facet of the human condition and that requires nonstop vigilance to ensure that it doesn't flare out of control whenever enough haters agglomerate together

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Fascism is a recent phenomenon. It arose when newspapers, radio, films, television arose. It is an expression of mass, one/few-to-many authoritative communication.

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It's not just Fox News, it's the entire medium of Cable TV.

It's not just the New York Times, it's the entire medium of newspaper periodicals.

It's not just those one-to-many mediums, either.

4chan, KiwiFarms, 2015 Reddit, Facebook, YT comments all provide broadcast channels to astroturf

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Sometimes by design, sometimes by misfeasance

The problem is that society was structured for many, many hundreds of thousands of years to listen to the wise person with the excellent oration and diction, follow his or her lead

We've had radio for ~100 years

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Without learning any German, find and listen to a radio broadcast by Hitler.

He had a voice made for radio. For the microphone. It transcends wow and flutter, pop and hiss, and becomes a pulsed hyperreal elocution

Ms. Penny 🌅🧙♀️ Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Trump isn't just a man. He's a Dalek, has this hyperreal machine built around him, translates everything he does and says into what the machine wants to proclaim.

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