I want to learn more on how the internet came into being. Why is it structured this way? Since the internet kind of stomps on anyone who has anything useful to say with trolling and memes to make that persons arguments null. How does this tyrannical system lives and grows? I wonder, what is socialists and communists strategy to combat short term memory and short attention span that rising among the new generation? I think we need to address the lack of analysis between the internet and human psychology from a marxist perspective.
This is up there with “generation psychology” for number one thing nobody even expects to be true in practice but still gets talked about constantly. I don’t think this is true.
Of course there is brainrot but it’s not like some blanket thing caused by screentime and unfortunately brainrot doesn’t always involve reduced memory or attention span. It involves extensive attention span and recall of nothing other than Baby Gronk New Rizz King??? Destiny Vs Hasan Piker??? Family Guy Vs Subway Surfers AI Generated Anime Skibidi Toilet Lore Analysis Video (GONE SEXUAL). You can’t get these mother fuckers to talk about ANYTHING ELSE. How is that reduced attention span and memory lol? For the things YOU are saying to them, maybe. I digress.
Where the internet came from: The US military. https://wiki.froth.zone/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment The Phoenix Program (I recommend the OG Douglas Valentine’s book and the book he wrote afterwards about how people like Seymour Hersh sensationalized and watered down its contents simultaneously, running damage control by treating My Lai like a more singular atrocity than it was)
Where the internet is going: 🌍
Get ready, I have already begun talking to the Horn of Africa bros on Twitter. Currently African internet can be totally dogshit. But the more connected people get, the more US telecoms and social media companies mediate those connections. Maybe there are ways we can mitigate that? Are there? I just wanted to hate Comcast and complain about video games. Now I don’t have any games and I willingly look up videos of combine harvesters. Something horrible is happening inside of me, and I don’t know why.