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Tag Archives: retard media
Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word
I have an important announcement to make: I’ve learned something — and what I learned has helped me to change my course. Many years ago, I started using Facebook (in large part because one of my friends said “facebook” was … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, brand name, brand names, brands, fake news, Hope & Change, irrational media, language, manipulation, propaganda, rational media, retard media, slogans, suckers, wisdom of the language
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Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, advertising industry, attitude, audience, closed, communication, communications, communities, community, express, expressed, expression, expressions, free speech, group, groups, illiteracy, illiterate, in-group, language, languages, linguistic communities, linguistic community, literacy, literate, mean, meaning, means, mutual, negotiation, negotiation of meaning, open, out-group, participate, participating, participation, patron, patronage, patronise, patronize, patrons, propaganda, rational media, read, reader, readers, reading, relationship, relationships, retard media, target, target audience, targets, understanding, write, writer, writers, writing
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Only Fools Rush in to Build on Top of Closed (Secret, Proprietary) Platforms
Last week Amnesty International published a report about the online platforms of the leading surveillance giants – see my brief post about it @ Find News. What I find particularly signficant about the news is not the recommendations for public … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, development, Facebook, fool, fools, free market, Google, governance, historical, history, market, marketing, online marketing, policy, privacy, promotion, promotional, promotions, propaganda, rational, rationality, recommendations, regulation, retard media, secret, sucker, suckers, surveillance, technological, technology
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Scripts, Stories, Narratives, Filling in the Gaps without Resorting to Fake News and other Propaganda Techniques
I have recently been minding my gaping gap and just the other day I was talking with someone about filling in the gaps, so I’ve decided to give you all a what’s update (I’m thinking that could maybe catch on … Continue reading
The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy
I have written about the widespread pandemic of illiteracy for many years, and I find it odd that there has continued to be an attitude of toleration to the phenomenon – even among people who I consider to be quite … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, illiteracy, intemperance, literacy, propaganda, retard media, temperance, tolerance, tolerant, tolerate, toleration
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The Rationality of Interdependence vs. Independence (+ Self-Reliance + Inter-Reliance)
Many people are upset. They are upset with something the Donald did. Apparently, they feel somewhat dependent on stuff Donald does. Donald does stupid stuff – and so do you. We all do stupid stuff. Whether or not Donald realizes … Continue reading
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Tagged depend, dependence, dependent, fake news, independence, inter-reliance, interdependence, media, reliability, reliable, reliance, rely, retard media, self-reliance
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It’s Not What You Think It Is
My friend Jean Russell shared a really fascinating meme the other day on facebook. The main gist of the idea was that “you are what you think”… such that rather than “I am what you think I am”, in fact … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertising, deconstruct, deconstruction, internet, media, media deconstruction, propaganda, retard media, site, sites, television, tv, web, website, websites, World-Wide Web
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What are you going to do about it?
I have a friend who works in the field of healthcare, and we were talking about corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries – the kind that leads to patients getting misdiagnosed and mistreated. I had shared something I had … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertise, advertisement, advertising, alternative currencies, alternative currency, anonymity, anonymous, authentic, authenticity, bond, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, care, careless, cash, construct, construction, constructs, engage, engagement, failure, identity, meaning, meaningful, meaningless, money, power, rational media, relationship, relationships, retard media, social, social construct, social construction, social constructs, social engagement, social system, social systems, society, success, successful, system, systems, trace
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Should You be Concerned about the Rate of Literacy if Over 99% Are Illiterate?
When people were living in caves, probably most of them didn’t create cave paintings. Certainly none of them spoke English – and the alphabet hadn’t even been invented yet. The rate of literacy was without the shadow of a doubt … Continue reading
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Tagged controversial, controversy, development, evolution, illiteracy, illiterate, law, literacy, literate, natural language, natural law, nature, rational media, retard media
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The Rationality of Buzz
It’s early on a Monday morning – I would say “bright and early”, but it’s so early that the sun is still nowhere in sight. At any rate, the week is about to begin and so I figure it’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, buzz, conditioning, consumer, consumers, fact, facts, habit, habits, history, internet, literacy, media, news, news publisher, news publishers, Pavlov, printing press, propaganda, psychology, publish, published, publisher, publishers, publishing, retard media, technology
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