:cornbread_going_goblin_mode: :shrimpzi: Elfie :shrimpzi: :nafo: on Nostr: To extrapolate on what Yang said and go beyond the utterly gay and useless but most ...
To extrapolate on what Yang said and go beyond the utterly gay and useless but most common definition of the phrase: "The pen is mightier than the sword"
It's true in a sense that words and letters are above violence, but not as an alternative but as framing device, just as Julian very aptly says at end "there's always someone making history" meaning that violence is inescapable.
However violence isn't without context and context is everything but objective, perpetually shifting through the millennia.
When Yang argues that through the pen it's possible to correct the dictator from a hundred years ago, he means propaganda, but what is propaganda? It's not whatever bullshit definition it has, it's actually all media to more or less extent.
This is not a problem of modern media, nor a trend, not even something caused by the emerging technologies, but rather the very nature of human communication. In the same way humanity loves patterns, it also loves ideas and thinking inside the frame of those ideas.
That's why there will never be an honest journalist or a non biased article, because it's impossible to think outside the context in which we exist. They only thing you can hope for is a bias for good and not the other way around.
Husky_1685071064956_4RNF8NF6WU.mp4
It's true in a sense that words and letters are above violence, but not as an alternative but as framing device, just as Julian very aptly says at end "there's always someone making history" meaning that violence is inescapable.
However violence isn't without context and context is everything but objective, perpetually shifting through the millennia.
When Yang argues that through the pen it's possible to correct the dictator from a hundred years ago, he means propaganda, but what is propaganda? It's not whatever bullshit definition it has, it's actually all media to more or less extent.
This is not a problem of modern media, nor a trend, not even something caused by the emerging technologies, but rather the very nature of human communication. In the same way humanity loves patterns, it also loves ideas and thinking inside the frame of those ideas.
That's why there will never be an honest journalist or a non biased article, because it's impossible to think outside the context in which we exist. They only thing you can hope for is a bias for good and not the other way around.
Husky_1685071064956_4RNF8NF6WU.mp4