Here we go again! The proverbial dark black pot(the regular media including Netflix which is essentially a Hollywood variant)) calling the electric kettle(Facebook,Twiiter and Instagram ) black lol
Ok. The latest in vogue Netflix production”The Great Hack”. You know what?! Netflix is hacking your brain as are all the regular media,with hyped, mildly paranoid propaganda.Cambridge Analytica and all the data-sharing is manipulative but IT IS NOT THE REAL PROBLEM,by any means! Even Trump and his election are not the real problem .Nor is Google or Facebook or Amazon! There ARE very real and deep problems and they have nothing to do with data-sharing and manipulation.Here are are just a few of them.
1) Our educational system does not teach people how to think.Instead it is a propaganda machine for politically correct ideology and Scientific Materialism
2) People are taught to respect the experts who are just as often wrong as right and often supremely impractical and out of touch
3) Our politicians are in the pockets of the corporations big-time and therefore are no longer acting for the public good.That was true long before Trump!
4) Schools of Business Administration are teaching current and future administrators to put maximum emphasis on efficiency and productivity and profits to the detriment of everyone else including their clients and their employees who are increasingly stressed out.
5) People are educated to use their reason but not to develop their inner sight,their ear of Truth and their subtle heart.This despite decades of Research trying to highlight the importance of Emotional Intelligence.Still not operationalized in any official educational system I know of and
5) Doubt and Cynicism as well as the accompanying relativism and atheism and agnosticism are endemic in our societies so that morality has been severely compromised in much of the modern world.
The list goes on and on You will notice that none of this has anything to do with data-sharing.in fact if anything,data-sharing is a consequence of this lack of values rather than its cause..
When our beliefs and values are shaped by data manipulation then it is a problem. When our beliefs and values are shaped by an atheistic and amoral education system then it is also a problem..and it is connected. We are all dumb and vulnerable.
I learn a lot from Netflix, this being the latest.
I am not blankedly dissing Netflix.( I wonder too where this “black and white” thinking is generated?!)Netflix may well be a useful form of recreation for some people.Why not?I am just putting things in perspective.I don’t believe that beliefs and values are being shaped by data-exchanging.They are just perhaps tapping into values that are already existing.It is the educational system and the regular media that are shaping the values.The marketing companies just cash in like hyenas after a lion hunt lol.