How Social Media Endangers Knowledge

//worried that Trump’s rise threatened the country’s foundational Enlightenment ideals//

Ahh, looks like even the ENLIGHTENMENT is what is defined by the media and corporates.

I absolutely agree. This is why I try to stay off social media to begin with.

Maybe people can talk with more person with social and they realise not everybodie is the pogo the most unfreeze in the box ahahahah sorry cant resist on this one

As Neil Postman noted in his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the rise of television introduced not just a new medium but a new discourse: a gradual shift from a typographic culture to a photographic one, which in turn meant a shift from rationality to emotions, exposition to entertainment. In an image-centered and pleasure-driven world, Postman noted, there is no place for rational thinking, because you simply cannot think with images. It is text that enables us to “uncover lies, confusions and overgeneralizations, to detect abuses of logic and common sense. It also means to weigh ideas, to compare and contrast assertions, to connect one generalization to another.”

(From linked article)

I agree that we (particularly North American mainstream culture) have in many ways lost common sense, reason, logic, and wisdom and have gotten lost in an endless pursuit of good feelings and entertainment.

These are thoughts that should be thought, IMO, and shared and thought and discussed some more!

I think I'd like to read more books worth reading. Eventually. After this show series.

Yes, but I said I "try" to stay off social media xD
Meaning I am on less places than I used to be on.

Knowledge is the aim to be rich. Nowadays richness and knowledge is tied up very closely; probably, it always works in history this way. Knowledge is your time; if you don't care about time, you don't care about knowledge. None of us possess ourselves, because we're just puppets in government's hands. To be free you need to know, but what are you going to do if you don't have any knowledge? 

Epictetus said: “Leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”  This statement doesn't work neither today, nor yesterday. Only rich survive, the rest of people will die. So, knowledge is da key to da future.

You was right about psychological position of gaining knowledge of the most of people. That's right, mostly people don't want to get knowledge, but 'd rather they want to get just something to satisfy their hungry. So, I-net for G-dvernment is like fishing. And you're right about facts gaining, but it's s@d that facts applies with concepts, ie the one who produces a concept the one who draws some world for the fact. I mean if a detective's found a blood and a corpse - it's a case one, but it's not like that for a cannibal dude.