What I've been seeing for years I would now call Public Emotional Bluster, the propping up of old stories and facades that are supposed to mean something now - when they don't. Without the needed public education processes including and especially in MSM media, people who don't go looking for better sources want to believe what they alre…
What I've been seeing for years I would now call Public Emotional Bluster, the propping up of old stories and facades that are supposed to mean something now - when they don't. Without the needed public education processes including and especially in MSM media, people who don't go looking for better sources want to believe what they already believe, which is these days a lot imbedded in for-profit media which in itself has become a drug. It thrives and profits on the most base human emotions of fear and greed that keep people in ignorance. Media literacy needs to be taught very early.
What I've been seeing for years I would now call Public Emotional Bluster, the propping up of old stories and facades that are supposed to mean something now - when they don't. Without the needed public education processes including and especially in MSM media, people who don't go looking for better sources want to believe what they already believe, which is these days a lot imbedded in for-profit media which in itself has become a drug. It thrives and profits on the most base human emotions of fear and greed that keep people in ignorance. Media literacy needs to be taught very early.
👏👏👏I would include visual literacy in that education. So much of the lies and gaslighting are mediated through subliminal use of visual cues.
Have you ever heard of Visual Teaching Strategies? A friend of mine has been involved with this effort which he says is quite successful.
No I haven’t. I will certainly look it up.
Thanks 🙏