#16 - The Social Media Disease: Virtual Mobs, Conformity, & External Truth
May 14, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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Episode description
Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones.
Also:
- Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them
- Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency
- The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism
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