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About the correlation between smartphones, anxiety and stupidity, I can pretty well guess that if you are burning mental resources on worries, you have less for thinking. So if smartphones cause, or inflame anxiety, then....Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:52 amI'm usually very skeptical about "this newfangled technology is ruining everything"-speeches, so I don't like to say this, but MacAnDàil might have a point. Whatever preliminaries there were, the rise of the fascists became a really big global thing in the 2010s.Ares Land wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 11:14 amNo, I don't think it's smartphones. The rise of the far right started quite some time before smartphones. Depending on the country you can see signs of it as early as the 80s.MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 9:22 am The rise is far right came in the 2010s. The rise in smartphones also did. Both are linked to increased anxiety. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo https://www.jeantwenge.com/igen-book-by-dr-jean-twenge/. Also, smartphones are literally making people dumber as in the Reverse Flynn Effect. https://calnewport.com/on-the-reverse-flynn-effect/
In the US, to give just one example, Ann Coulter was pretty Trump-ish, as early as the late 90s, early 2000s.
That's a good point, but then again, people who have not turned fascist over the course of the last 15 years are probably, on average, at least as anxious and worried as people who have.Mornche Geddick wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:30 am
About the correlation between smartphones, anxiety and stupidity, I can pretty well guess that if you are burning mental resources on worries, you have less for thinking. So if smartphones cause, or inflame anxiety, then....
Fascinating how the process of donating money to a candidate and some political causes becomes a "bombshell" when people whom right-wingers don't like do it.alice wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 3:22 pm Not sure how to embed this, but it's pertinent:
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I’ll admit that the caption gave me a good chuckle.alice wrote: ↑Wed Oct 29, 2025 3:22 pm Not sure how to embed this, but it's pertinent:
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Ah, I see. I assumed it was related to the hysterical Zohran Mamdani comments and got confused.
I am not sure to what extent this is ironic. Do you mean that you think that it was inappropriate for Coughlin's program to be taken off air because you see that as restricted freedom of speech? And that similar actions ought to be avoided? Or something else?Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 3:25 pmThis is just the reactionary view. Expanding the public square doesn't ennoble the public; it cheapens the public square. Talk radio went through a similar cycle: the market discovered that the masses wanted paranoid, corrosive moron-right dreck. Eventually the government stepped in to regulate it, in a less than entirely principled manner which nonetheless has met with historians' applause. Does anyone really mind that the sitting president of the United States extraconstitutionally forced a popular talk radio host off the air? Well, the radio host was Charles Coughlin, who thought Hitler was a swell guy... so the masses must be ruled!MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 9:22 am The rise is far right came in the 2010s. The rise in smartphones also did. Both are linked to increased anxiety. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo https://www.jeantwenge.com/igen-book-by-dr-jean-twenge/. Also, smartphones are literally making people dumber as in the Reverse Flynn Effect. https://calnewport.com/on-the-reverse-flynn-effect/
I think he’s considering it hypocrisy that people complained about Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended, but that they presumably wouldn’t have problems with Coughlin having been taken off air.MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 11:16 amI am not sure to what extent this is ironic. Do you mean that you think that it was inappropriate for Coughlin's program to be taken off air because you see that as restricted freedom of speech? And that similar actions ought to be avoided? Or something else?Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 3:25 pmThis is just the reactionary view. Expanding the public square doesn't ennoble the public; it cheapens the public square. Talk radio went through a similar cycle: the market discovered that the masses wanted paranoid, corrosive moron-right dreck. Eventually the government stepped in to regulate it, in a less than entirely principled manner which nonetheless has met with historians' applause. Does anyone really mind that the sitting president of the United States extraconstitutionally forced a popular talk radio host off the air? Well, the radio host was Charles Coughlin, who thought Hitler was a swell guy... so the masses must be ruled!MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 9:22 am The rise is far right came in the 2010s. The rise in smartphones also did. Both are linked to increased anxiety. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo https://www.jeantwenge.com/igen-book-by-dr-jean-twenge/. Also, smartphones are literally making people dumber as in the Reverse Flynn Effect. https://calnewport.com/on-the-reverse-flynn-effect/
I think it was obviously illiberal, but not inappropriate.MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Thu Oct 30, 2025 11:16 amI am not sure to what extent this is ironic. Do you mean that you think that it was inappropriate for Coughlin's program to be taken off air because you see that as restricted freedom of speech? And that similar actions ought to be avoided? Or something else?Nortaneous wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 3:25 pmThis is just the reactionary view. Expanding the public square doesn't ennoble the public; it cheapens the public square. Talk radio went through a similar cycle: the market discovered that the masses wanted paranoid, corrosive moron-right dreck. Eventually the government stepped in to regulate it, in a less than entirely principled manner which nonetheless has met with historians' applause. Does anyone really mind that the sitting president of the United States extraconstitutionally forced a popular talk radio host off the air? Well, the radio host was Charles Coughlin, who thought Hitler was a swell guy... so the masses must be ruled!MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 27, 2025 9:22 am The rise is far right came in the 2010s. The rise in smartphones also did. Both are linked to increased anxiety. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy082dn7rkqo https://www.jeantwenge.com/igen-book-by-dr-jean-twenge/. Also, smartphones are literally making people dumber as in the Reverse Flynn Effect. https://calnewport.com/on-the-reverse-flynn-effect/
I've never paid attention to Jimmy Kimmel in my life, but on a surface-level reading, his suspension looks inappropriate. If you're going to make an example of someone, it should be a good example.