Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "End of the Internet? Dead Internet Theory + Disappearing Content = Rut Roh" video.
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@goodlookinouthomie1757 - ok... I am a Christian, and I believe in an eternal soul, so not sure what your target for 'you' is. But sure, it's a nice, artsy saying, which itself has been mass produced and mindlessly consumed as well.
But I think you miss the point that they do care, which is why they use the algorithms and AI to try and learn what people are interested in, and purposefully use that information to use what we consume in a manner that keeps us addicted and coming back for more. They study all this, and they study us, looking for all the common traits they can, and how to maximize the habits formed by those traits to make music that's 'safe'. That is to say, music that they believe will push the right buttons and make us move in the direction they want us to. Thus, whenever the left claim that to speak with opposing views is 'unsafe', they effectively mean that these are views they don't want because they challenge the status quo of the programming. They don't want the other side to be heard, or at least they don't want to be the one that introduces views contrary to the programming lest the people programmed start to think for themselves, or otherwise are swayed against the programming.
I won't say that the right is without its own aspects of programming. It's almost impossible for anyone to not have programming. It's part of some aspect of our cognitive learning, particularly by rote. To this day, so many people know the nursery rhyme 'Ring Around the Rosey'. Until a certain age, we may not even realize the context of the rhyme. Yet somehow we learn these things by rote, even before we understand the meaning. In a sense, sing-song and subliminal messages are cousins to this sort of programming. That's part of the issue with pop entertainment, is what are the messages they are trying to ingrain in our minds? Is it historical, like the nursery rhyme, or is it trying to push messaging in order to shape the way we think or believe that may go against what we currently do think or believe. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but if you're a Christian, and your child begins listening to rock or rap music, starts using slang and slurs, emulating the musicians or rappers, and decides he's no longer Christian, and practically chants the chorus of the rock stars about how they don't believe they can be they can be saved, or that it's easy to imagine a world with no God or heaven, and how some day they too will be a rock star and be more famous than Jesus, well you might wonder if the music had any influence. It would appear there is some type of programing and a particular messaging against Christianity and God. Thus the messaging does matter, because you can become what you consume.
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