1| This thread will talk about where social media is at on a societal level. Everyone has been waiting for the day to come where the internet overtakes traditional media. This has already happened, and surprise! The revolution was not televised.
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2| Evidence:
@benshapiro has 1.4m followers,@RubinReport 411k,@joerogan 4.3m,@jordanbpeterson 740k,@SamHarrisOrg 1.1m, etc. Joe Rogan averaged 30m views/month in 2016! CNN on their best prime time day averages 1m~, Joe Rogan, by himself, is bigger than CNN (television).6 replies 34 retweets 221 likesShow this thread -
3| JBP added 20 cities to his tour today. He is selling out theaters of thousands of people coming out to listen to his ideas. This type of meteoric rise is unheard of outside of the mainstream. There is a thirst for information in the population, you see it through the screen.
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5| Humans display/transmit signals in order to attain social rank among the hierarchy they are competing; professional, personal, and mate-seeking. This concept manifests itself in social media through virtue-signaling, political posts, shaming, wealth displays, etc.
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6| This is in part due to the metaphysical-shaped hole in modern lives due to the collapse of organized religion. Once you recognize this behavior as metaphysical-searching, you can cast aside these insignificant signals crowding up the medium and focus on what it is meant for.
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Replying to @JordanTSack
this is an interesting idea... scientific thought broke religion, thus you would think that our ideal would be progress as a species, but it seems we are stuck with our biological impulses that have mutated the hierarchical design mechanism
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“Progressivism” “social justice” “atheism” “scientism” “fundamentalist”
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