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Free your mind from this rat race
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Escape!
Pop quiz time! How do you get 46,000 people to forward an
article that amounts to nothing more than gibberish? You give it a sensational
headline. After all, most people don't read anything more than the headline
before forwarding anything on to the masses. That's how the true thieves in the
temple get to us. They know it's like herding sheep blindly through a fantasy.
Because few people question what they read anymore. It's all clickbait for the
rat race and its time we escaped. Now that I have thoroughly confused you, let
me explain exactly what I am talking about here.
It seems that the satirical news site Science Post wanted to
have fun with people so they made a post on Facebook with the headline, "Study:
70% of Facebook users only read the headline of science stories before
commenting." Now the text of this post was nothing more than lorem ipsum
but that didn't stop more than 46,000 people from sharing the post with their
friends. Now let's think about that for a minute. First, the post is nothing but lorem
ipsum. For those of you who may not know
what that is, lorem ipsum is defined as:
In publishing and graphic design, lorem
ipsum is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a
document or visual presentation. The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled
section of De finibus bonorum et malorum,
a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed
to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.
So, lorem ipsum basically amounts to nothing more than
gibberish. Now, let's look at the post's headline, "Study: 70% of Facebook
users only read the headline of science stories before commenting."
According to this, 70% of the people who read this should have commented
without reading the article (which they couldn't read anyway because it was
gibberish). I don't know how many commented but more than 46,000 people shared
it. How do you share an article that is total gibberish? I don't get it! Come
on people, free your mind from this rat race!!!
Now to show you that the above incident is not a fluke. A
new study by computer scientists at Columbia University with the French
National Institute shows that 59% of the links that are actually shared on
social media have never been clicked. Once again, herding sheep blindly through
a fantasy! Wake up children! Free Urself! Almost 60% of people retweet articles
without ever actually reading them? Then what's to be expected from 3-3? Absolutely nothing! The Purple Army knows what I'm talking about! Anyway, here
is part of the Chicago Tribune's article on the subject:
Worse, the study finds that these sort of blind peer-to-peer shares are
really important in determining what news gets circulated and what just fades
off the public radar. So your thoughtless retweets, and those of your friends,
are actually shaping our shared political and cultural agendas.
"People are more willing to share an article than read it," study
co-author Arnaud Legout said in a statement. "This is typical of modern
information consumption. People form an opinion based on a summary, or a
summary of summaries, without making the effort to go deeper."
To verify that depressing piece of conventional internet wisdom, Legout and
his co-authors collected two data sets: the first, on all tweets containing
Bit.ly-shortened links to five major news sources during a one-month period
last summer; the second, on all of the clicks attached to that set of shortened
links, as logged by Bit.ly, during the same period. After cleaning and
collating that data, the researchers basically found themselves with a map to
how news goes viral on Twitter.
And that map showed, pretty clearly, that "viral" news is widely
shared — but not necessarily, you know, read. (I'm really only typing this
sentence for 4 in 10 people in the audience.)
The researchers made a few other telling observations, as well: Most clicks
to news stories, they found, were made on links shared by regular Twitter
users, and not the media organization itself. The links that users clicked were
much older than we generally assume — some had been published for several days,
in fact
But most interesting, for our purposes, is this habit of sharing without
clicking — a habit that, when you think about it, explains so much of the
oft-demoralizing cesspool that is internet culture. Among the many phenomena
we'd tentatively attribute, in large part, to the trend: the rise of sharebait
(nee clickbait) and the general BuzzFeedification of traditional media; the
internet hoax-industrial complex, which only seems to be growing stronger; and
the utter lack of intelligent online discourse around any remotely complicated,
controversial topic. (you can read the full article here)
So is this the colonized mind? Is this the microchip in your
neck? When will we wake up and realize
that they are force-feeding us the story they want us to hear and not the
truth? You can see in the study above how we propagate their lies by taking
their stories viral. We base our opinion on the summary of a summary or an
opinion of an opinion. We need to do the work and go deeper than that so grab
your scuba gear! Ask the questions that need to be asked! Don't be afraid to
find the truth! Free your mind from the rat race and FREE URSELF!
If U look, Ur sure gonna find
Throughout mankind's history
A colonized mind
The one in power makes law
Under which the colonized fall
But without God it's just the blind leading the blind
Love4OneAnother! Love4EachOther! Love4UsAll! Peace &
B-Wild!
