humanity gone mental, influenced by influencers

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"Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." Marshall McLuhan

This particular media environment is mostly one person's attempt to organize fragmented concepts and presentation on the very complicated topic of how the Mass Mind / educated mind of individual people relates to society they live in at the time - and how they learn and acquire new information and experiences. Topics are also likely to focus on group behaviors, conformity influences, mob mentality, trending changes and information - how this all relates to personal self-awareness, education about the persona, and how much freedom there is to swim against the stream or river.

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Loss of control, often dramatized scene in fiction stories where a character physically travels, has a large amount of information to share - but limited time. "Come with me if you want to live" (tvtropes.org)

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[–] RoundSparrow 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Repeating,,.

Learning takes time, experimenting takes time, organizing information takes time, proofs and peer review takes time.

And skill. A core of this topic of /c/mental_influenced is that it is entirely possible to have spent years developing your own mind but not have the ability to communicate or convey that.

It's probably easier to describe the opposite. "News readers", "social media influences", "actors", "politicians", often project leaders, executives in business. What they can often have is social characteristics, language, style, fashion, exclusive roles (of power or control, for example), foundation / founder positions, communication media environment tools (examples: radio, TV station, satellite phone in a remote area, printing machine, t-shirt production), technique, mannerisms, consumes or dress, stage name, on and on and on, the list is likely endless as to the persona masks people wear.

Be it described merely as a gimmick, a trope, a particular technology way of presentation (SMS length message, original Twitter length of message - vs long-form "War and Peace" 1225 page book, 3 second meme animation looping vs. 3 hour Oppenheimer IMAX film.... poetry vs. prose, complex metaphor vs. organized machine code to print 'hello world', encoding formats, typefaces, again an endless list of what people may fetish, season with, prefer, choose, be considered cool or dated, and in-fashion or annoying from over saturation.