decontextualising of information
That is the source of 90% of the collectively overmediated public's cognitive dissonance.
Zooming from shots of starving children, genocide, tsunamis etc to catfood commercials and breezy blandishments that are discrete phenomena, weaves them into a narrative that is purely horizontal, an emotional levelling to lowest common denominator, a baseline-zero lake of infinite width and no depth at all, a mirage.
A world with no meta, no concentration, no insight, no depth of field, all surface-mirroring, where the endocrine psycho/neuro shock and desire buttons are both jammed in a permanent state of on, and this becomes the new 'normal'.
Logic and reason, and even more universal compassion, need time to respond, integrate, cohere phenomena.
The decontextualisation you speak of is tantamount to moral strip-mining, sucking conscience and critical thinking out of the brains of those to whom the virtual has replaced (virtually) all else, Truman show, mission accomplished...
DeAnander:
S and accelerometers, so that speed and violence of manoeuvring could be recorded. The upshot was not surprising; the drivers who were told that their taxis were now "safer" and substantially improve, drove faster and braked a lot harder and later.
Jeavon again. He's like Kilroy!
Hmmm, I think I'm rambling. But by now everyone is accustomed to that, right? ;-)
Trailblazing.
There are huge supply lines of information backing you up! The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
A world with no meta, no concentration, no insight, no depth of field, all surface-mirroring,...
That's the slow poison, or perhaps more like starvation by force-feeding of a nutrient-free pseudo-food.
...where the endocrine psycho/neuro shock and desire buttons are both jammed in a permanent state of on...
Indeed. The attempts to inflame desires are mostly absurd, in my eyes, but the shock stuff I can't even watch -- It's calibrated to stir up viewers who are desensitized by years of exposure, and viscerally repellent if you're not.
My shockostat has an incompatible setting. Words and ideas I offer here may be used freely and without attribution.
