As 2020 Olympic games competitive distractions were finishing a scientific Climate Change report comes out that Climate Change time line predictions are worse than previously predicted, seriously scary scary.
My above example has nothing to do with citizenry’s own present day employment skills lives. Such rolled over stories have simple to understand themes, hence when looked at, all varieties of media presentations, media could be judged as keeping audiences dumb.
One unfortunate outcome being a percentage of people are anti covid-19 vaccine dose injectors, once such simplistic judgemental people had judged not to get vaccinated, admitting to themselves being wrong is quickly repressed, maintaining anti vaccine beliefs, enjoying/reinforced by media shock-jocks anti vaccine, anti lock-down statements.
Seinfeld approved George’s idea for a produced show about nothing. What is a show about nothing?
Television programs about: cooking; Farmer Wants a Wife; Survivor; The Bachelor; The Chase; Are You Paying Attention; the list goes on… have simple themes of: approval; criticism; competition. Add anticipation delay silence “wait for it” which competitor(s) gets thrown out to the competition, simple curiosity inspires people to watch. Once each episode ends audiences are left with nothing thought provokingly tangible.
The previous reading about canned laughter I claim conditions listeners to laugh at sentences that aren’t humorous. Laughing reduces listeners ability to think what’s previously said, often audiences are (ADHD/bipolar) repressing prompting thought.
Enthusiasm for sports which has little to think logically about anything other than competitive winning, reinforces simplified thought. Repeatedly pursuing competition sports weakens human incentive to think past the value of in-depth thinking.
There exists a 2006 movie entitled “Idiocracy”, I suggest humanity is half way there, in that sports heroes are far more celebrated than say Nikola Tesla the man responsible for promoting A.C. alternating current electricity generation to that of Edison’s D.C. direct current simplicity. If I have confused you the reader about AC Vs DC adds to my argument that humanity is half way there to “Idiocracy”, which is not the fault of people but the fault of political and corporate leaders whom wish to control population’s thought processes, keeping working class as working class manual labour dumb.
Doesn’t matter whether watching sports, movies or serious news stories, good verse evil competitive outcomes end of stories, “nothing” thinkable exists before stories conclude.
When Climate Change scare stories are reported few detailed ideas, forest fires being closely situated to desert areas, drought and periods of wind coming off deserts have been drying forest growth for extensive periods.
How Climate Change can produce longer periods of drought in areas, and higher rain fall flooding in other areas, weather forecasts blame ocean warm water currents and seasonal winds, seems unconvincing that climate change is real. My claim, governments are using scare stories to redirect many people whom have limited experience in realising manipulative propaganda, media using difficult to doubt science magic to be believed true because media report climate change concerns using evidence of extreme weather events, as simple to understand as a magical god exists based on priests & pastors repeatedly preying to a magical god.
Most all television documentaries about wars and old histories are “as it happened” stories using simple to no explanations. Once school leavers find careers, very little of these historical knowledge will aid workers careers.
Face to face learning also known as chalk & talk is designed to sabotage students ability to learn. Most subject matter has little to do with student’s future careers, that curriculum subjects are more data suited towards examination questions. Child aged student emotions are enhanced in competition with each other.
Students reading book knowledge allows information to directly enter human brain’s subconscious memory at reader’s own ability to comprehend. Readers can stop reading at any time to contemplate what had been read. If ideas weren’t fully understood, readers could pursue different analogy readings before continuing reading assignments. Face to face learning has teachers setting the pace of understanding, student remembering what’s being heard could be fractured, incorrectly understood making further understanding more difficult.
Schooling system provided books can be deliberately sabotaged, made difficult to understand using pointless complex sentences and/or simple obvious statements avoidance, resulting in reading all about nothing. Teachers have to explain what books were apparently trying to express, providing employment for teachers.
Myself hearing school students verbally expressing themselves, the lack of detailed subconscious memory analogies aiding formulated spoken English, instead hearing short simple to my standards, shallow heard statements indicates to me students need to encode into memories what they’re hearing into short simple analogies. Are students learning or being dumb down by having teachers speaking ideas that students have to quickly understand, conclude ideas into short attention span phrases used to express future embarrassing expressions of limited intelligence.
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