Is it all for hysteria purposes? While I do notice and understand how media apparatus is working right now, how far will this go? The sheer insanity of all this is starting to pinch me a little bit. If anyone can brief me, I would really appreciate it.

https://teddit.net/r/worldnews/comments/t39es1/

  • Free PalestineA
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    42 years ago

    The only thing I can assume at, because I’ve not seen any claims of this on any other media source - especially not unbiased non-western ones - is this could be an example of media’s “Plato’s cave”. Wherein they know the people in the cave (in this sense, normal westerners who get the majority of their news from western outlets and rarely go source hunting) only see what they want them to see, and so they’re manipulating the shadows (in this case, the media itself. they’re doing this rn with the nuclear deterrent force, too) for the best outcome for themselves.

    This specific one feels like a rehash of cold war era “socialism is when the people at the top take everything from the people at the bottom” rhetoric, but posed at Putin’s government. Which makes total sense to me, at least that they’d be using these arguments, I’ve seen a large amount of “Putin wants to resurrect the USSR” rhetoric from them too.

    • @TheAnonymouseJokerOP
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      12 years ago

      Yes, I noticed exactly this. I do not know theory terms like “Plato’s cave” though. They are targeting the people that live in the Hegelian dialectic echo chambers and manipulating with the effect that internet outreach has these days.

      • Free PalestineA
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        62 years ago

        Plato’s cave is the philosophical allegory asserted by Plato, wherein people within a cave with no experiences exterior to the cave are shown shadows on the wall. The allegory assumes that because the inhabitants are only familiar with the shadows on the wall, their frame of reality is integrally bound to those shadows. I.E. their only understanding of the world, is their understanding of shadows.

        • @TheAnonymouseJokerOP
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          22 years ago

          This is really interesting. Seems like what are today run-of-the-mill subreddits.

        • @gun@lemmy.ml
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          02 years ago

          I’ve recently started reading Plato. Some view Plato, not Marx, as the first communist thinker