When money-hungry people imitate each other's successful tactics to get more money, it can look like a massive conspiracy to do some other thing. But oligarchs really don't cooperate on that scale. They see each other as competitors, not allies. If one of them proposed locking the populace into an eternal doomscroll to keep them from fighting capitalism, the rest would think, "What's in it for him? How is he trying to take market share away from me?" The vast majority of peasants don't even want to fight capitalism, so it's a non-problem. Some oligarchs might go along hoping to individually get something out of it, but they would think it was just alarmist bullshit that might benefit them.

[–] ex_06@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If one of them proposed locking the populace into an eternal doomscroll to keep them from fighting capitalism

I didn't get to choose that preview, idk if it's a my bad thing or a lemmy thing

but still i didn't write that little sum up and it doesn't really represent the article

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's not just the little sum up. Let's look more...

"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act." Wrong - persuasion is the exact purpose. Persuading people to donate money, buy more shit, stay brand-loyal... That's why oligarchs spend money on social media. Their alliances with each other are temporary, and meticulously defined to maximize their individual gain. Everything about their behavior says they aren't allies.

“Everything on social media is designed to make you think [you're the main protagonist in a sea of NPCs, from previous paragraph],” said Cross. “It’s all about you—your feed, your network, your friends.” Ahh, okay, so the reason so many people on social media think they're the main character isn't because they already thought that way and the anonymity lets them express themselves more freely. No no, it's because social media is "designed" to make them feel that way. Well alrighty then, more conspiracy. Social media didn't evolve like everything else, somebody had a grand design for it.

Gimme a break. What I feel is that I've spent enough time and effort on this.

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[–] RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You cant post your way out of trying to tell people not to try and post their way out of fascism.

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