Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks agoSocial media lead to things like maga and the ruse of Nazis in Europe. It’s not necessarily tech itself that is making us dumb, it’s reeling people in through simplicity, then making them addicted to it and ultimately exploiting this.
Libra@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
No, fear and hatred lead to things like MAGA and the rise of Nazis. Social media makes it easier to fearmonger and spread hatred, no doubt, but it is by no means the cause of those things.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
It definitely is the enabler though. Without social media, propaganda could never have spread as fast. And it also brought together every village idiot. I know of simpleminded people who never uttered a racist word in their lives before. Now all they talk about is how the AfD will save Germany from the brown people. This is literally brainwashing. So I stand by my comment that social media is the cause of all this.
Libra@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
For sure, I even said so.
I hate to break it to you though; I grew up during the Cold War and propaganda was literally everywhere before the invention of the internet. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Red Scare?
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
I know it had always been there. But social media has made it so much more efficient. It’s hard to compare it with traditional media.