November 6ths
11/6/2000
Show on TV about town in Japan where its residents often live to be 100 years old, and they can't quite figure out why. This shows that context is so important—that a certain constellation of factors creates a particular outcome. Sometimes you don't really know which star in the constellation is the dominant one.
[11/6/2024: In hindsight you could say it's the fault of technology because it allows us to access the worst and best parts of ourselves. Without TV how would we have known about that town in Japan for example, except through print sources? It begs the question whether more information results in better outcomes. This is one of the points in Yuval Harari's new book Nexus:
"The naive view of information argues that by gathering and processing much more information than individuals can, big networks achieve a better understanding of medicine, physics, economics, and numerous other fields, which makes the network that only powerful but also wise… This view posits that in sufficient quantities information leads to truth, and truth in turn leads to both power and wisdom. ignorance, in contrast, seems to lead nowhere. While delusional and deceitful networks might occasionally arise in moments of historical crisis, in the long term they are bound to lose to more clear-sided and honest rivals."
11/6/2010
Photographs For Music: Departure. Music: The Scandal (Music For Places IV). Photos taken at Navy Pier.
11/6/2012
Vote 2012. It's the usual tactic: make false statements and put the burden on Democrats to prove it's false, all the while it rips the country apart because it puts everyone in the position of either ceding to falsehoods (manufactured consent) or becoming completely cynical. So here we are on another cusp between administrations, which in fact are just more of the same and more of gridlock. If Obama gets re-elected it will affirm my belief that Obama is perhaps the president that either defines The Fourth Turning or merely completes Chapter 1 of a revolution.
[11/6/2024: Here we are. As much as I liked the book The Fourth Turning, I think it was appropriated as a playbook to make fourth-turning things happen by brute force. If we are now in a First Turning, it’s a false Utopia. If the pattern repeats, the Awakening won’t be until 2044-2046. That's when the next "Beatles" will emerge. Remember, Fourth Turnings also have Civil Wars and Depressions.]
11/6/2020
On "Abnormal Normalcy": If you place something abnormal camouflaged as "normal" you can get away with anything. A criminal can camouflage themselves as "normal" or stable using something understood as being inherently stable and people will probably see it as normal or blending in perfectly. This is actually smart in many ways, but only smart if it's done without premeditation.
[11/6/2024: This is the power of our capacity for deceit].
11/6/2021
Music For Places V released.
11/6/2023
I like the idea of a federated internet. It would be nice if there was standardized metadata for diaries--a "Diary Federation". It would essentially be a semantic web--a Web 1.0 thing. A federated internet would bring back some of that. Compared to the early web, the current web is more and more dystopian, beginning around 2011 when it became shadowy and anonymous. (It's easier to express dark opinions in the shadows).
[11/6/2024: What's needed more than platforms is moderation. What should have been done is amending Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. We wouldn't have so much misinformation. Harris followers now fully know the truth because we see the lies about her. Or is it that we trust people too much to see the deceits? It's a room of mirrors...]
11/6/2024
Apparently, power lies in the power of lies. I ran a search to see what Marianne Williamson was saying and found an article that said she agreed with Trump on the pet-eating theory. That isn't remotely possible. People won't take the time to think that something might not be true. Propagandists know this. Humans aren't built for truth--they're built to be easily conned.
Caroline Myss: "A tribe can't take the truth. There is absolutely no way a tribe can be reasoned with. It's all propaganda and spin...Carl Jung said a Nazi Germany [emerged] because we lack the reason and the wisdom to deal with what caused the evil, and a true seer realizes evil is a real archetypal [shadow]. They didn't dismantle it and say where did it come from–what activates it in the human psyche? What makes us receptive hosts to that? What makes us want to kill? It wasn't just the Germans–it's human nature and it landed there. [Jung} said it will go somewhere else and it's come here–we are the new host. It’s all propaganda and spin but we don't see it. But you have to look carefully. We're a nation of freedom and yet take away the rights [of minorities], shred our constitution. They have camps ready to go. What is the most unbelievable becomes the achievable." https://youtu.be/9qYItABECcM?si=TJAlddAFKe8xWTGA&t=1408
Apparently, YouTube generated more Election Day watch time than any other platform. That's where people were sucking up the propaganda before they went to vote.
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