Comments by "antonyjh1234" (@antonyjh1234) on "Eric Weinstein - Are We On The Brink Of A Revolution? (4K)" video.
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@father3dollarbill No matter where you live, we all live in a media bubble that has and is controlling which information is deemed supposedly important to you. We are told what is important from the time we enter school to support a system that doesn't seem to have any constraints, instead of talking about say in the ten years after 2060 it will be the same amount of sea level rise than has occurred in the last 30 years, we are talking about Trump. It's setting the bar of what is or what is not important. It might be which team won or who won a race car meeting, what to buy, how to live, it's the information they aren't putting in front of you that is important and as long as your attention is occupied they have won. The Tobacco manifesto showed how all they needed to do was create confusion to keep sales going, those same advertisers found customers in big oil and the same tricks applied.
Let me put it this way, oil is the reason all of our lives are the way they are, people are being killed daily for it, for the system we support with our life's efforts and is going to come to a crashing end. If you are wanting to maintain your job, home, career, hopes dreams and aspirations, you aren't going to talk about the destruction of at least half the people in the world over the next few hundred years and that we may be back to stone tools in 200 years and that massive degrowth is needed if you want to keep your job selling tyres at the local shop. If a massive reduction in consumption is the only way forward, you don't want to bring that up at the next board meeting of how to increase sales.
It goes with the idea What's Important Now, the issue is they aren't setting the scene of what to do when sea level rise is the same in 5 years or 2 or 1 year than has been the last 30 years they are printing stories and topics that won't make any difference to then, they are printing stories you can talk about today because it doesn't involve any real change. It's about why they are putting something in front of you and what they aren't.
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