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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Link to TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive

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

There's probably a better, more precise, trope I'm fishing for in my mind... more like where someone is doing long-term research and study.... or has gain experience over a period of time due to unique job opportunities... location of experience (often remote or exclusive)... expensive or security-restricted hardware access (like a medical virus laboratory)... and is unable to explain their concept due to their interpersonal abilities or time-compression of documenting the experience and information itself.

At the moment I can't come up with a solid example and haven't dug in for a TV Trope link...

Information system dynamic, experience, even diseases of humanities often present this pattern. Even on a massive scale. "The Spanish governor of Cuba, Diego Velazquez, then sent a larger force under Hernán Cortés, with instructions to trade with the inhabitants. Cortés had more ambitious plans, however, and after landing on the coast of Veracruz, in 1521, made his way to Tenochtitlán." They not only introduced new weapon technology, methods of combat, travel technology of ships, diseases such as smallpox... there was of introduction of new languages, eating customs, religious beliefs and faith systems, new methods of media - printed books from the newly invented printing press.