using media to convey ideas is concerning,
Using only media and memes to convey ideas looks indeed concerning to me, take a look at sopuli.xyz frontpage: most of it it’s memes and there’s not a single text thread
using the lying machine that destroys the planet
You can run AI locally on your computer and it will destroy the planet as much as a playing a videogame would do.
sunsofold@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
The problem is the medium of memes doesn’t convey ideas well, if at all, and helps promote thought-terminating ideologies and ignorant partisanship. If you can fit the idea into a meme, it’s probably oversimplified to the point of uselessness, and if the meme relies on you already knowing the real idea, it’s not informing anyone of anything.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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sunsofold@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
To understand the ideas present in this meme, you must understand a basic level of anthropology, (not a huge ask, but an ask) the concept of ‘the orient,’ (much bigger ask) critique of that concept, (less rare knowledge but often found only through right-wing criticism of the critique) ‘decolonization,’ (same again) and liberalism. (Same again.) If I fail to understand university level academic discourse on a field I don’t work in, this is utter gibberish. This does not teach anyone who is not already somewhat familiar with the discourse anything. It might as well be in a foreign language to most readers, and, again, oversimplifies the ideas which are being obliquely mentioned.
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
proof by contradiction, thank you