Thanks, that was very a propos. i have been very concerned about exactly what you describe, and wonder how it is that this "clickbait effect" seems very much more pronounced to me recently.
i do have a strategy of keeping on the straight and narrow when investigating on-line, and really make an effort to not deviate from it. After investigating some scams on Youtube i have made a point of never clicking on any of the recommended videos in the sidebar. Some people i know have fallen into believing and following, some of these, i.e. the one about Christianity really being about "oils" like essential oils, that are found in an ancient book (only about 100 y o, however) (which has a hook for people who don't want to believe in traditional Christianity, yet don't want to discard it completely). i could see the amount of technical effort and "psyop" techniques that went into creating something like that, and w/o a visible pay-off (except of course the small pay per view from YouTube) -- it seems like a deep state creation -- just to do something like what you wrote about -- to keep people's attention diverted and spinning around something that is not real.
i believe that there could be at least one of these psyop scams inserted in the list of recommended videos found in the sidebar of YouTube, one that has been specially selected for the particular user, based on their profile, that we all know they have been developing for each one of us.
i also wonder about what Marshall McLuhan said -- "the medium is the message." He said a lot more which is necessary to get the real context of that quote, i.e. https://youtu.be/UoCrx0scCkM Of course he made those observations long ago, in the 1960s and 70s, but we can extrapolate from television as the medium then, to the internet, now. i think it's valuable to get the perspective of visionary people in the past on these topics, since we can have blind spots that we aren't aware of, especially when we are using the internet to comment on the effects of the internet. (No doubt McLuhan was using his medium, television to comment on the effects of television, then too, but at least he wasn't on-line, so he was immune to the effect of the internet -- where our particular blind spots would be.)
i'm considering that there could be something more about our current "medium" than 'meets the eye.' Why for example, is there now all this concern, all of the sudden, about "blue light" from led screens being bad for the eyes ? The energy efficient bulbs they have all over now -- are also LEDs. Surely it can't be just the normal light frequency "blue" that they are talking about. If "blue" frequencies of light per se, was the problem, then all those people who spend time climbing mountains under the blue sky, or on a ship in blue waters found in some parts of the world, would also suffer from "blue light exposure." Then if people now need to buy specially coated glasses to reduce their exposure, why don't they just put the coating over the screen in the first place ? And those coatings on the glasses that i've seen, seem to reflect yellow not blue, as one would expect, if they were reducing blue light from going through the lens to the person's eye.
i've been quite interested in Black Goo, which is an oily substance that has peculiar properties of moving towards any person who places their attention on it. It was featured quite prominently in the TV series, the X-files.
If two quantities of Black Goo are brought in proximity, they will attract each other with a force that is not magnetism. i know a lot has been discussed on-line about Black Goo, but i like this video disclosure a British soldier made, who was involved with Black Goo during the Falkland's war in 1982. Here is a time referenced video of where he says that when large quantities of it was brought back to the UK, it was researched for use in electronic circuitry like that for cell phones -- but used how ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q34bBluvb8&t=2429s
Could minute quantities of Black Goo be found in all devices now -- or particularly in the screens of those devices ? There is the story that the Black Goo from Thule Isl. nr the Falklands was given to the Marconi Company (now merged into Marconi Communications) to develop it. A number of people working with the substance at Marconi, apparently took their own lives by very bizarre and diabolical methods (called "The Marconi Deaths"). It is said the Black Goo disconnects people from their soul and enables extreme impulses and behaviours.
If some quantity of it, is now in the circuitry of devices, or the screens themselves, could it be having a similar (but less extreme) effect -- of disconnecting users from the "real world" and connecting them instead, to another (alien ?) domain, when they view "through the screen" and watch movies which are AI inspired or even created, or when they are in a virtual reality frame of mind, thinking about what they are texting ? If it is in cellphones, then could it also have some kind of effect by being so close to the brain of people talking on them, or could it be interacting with wireless radiation (or WiFi in regards to a laptop or desktop) ?
i'm actually thinking of trying to find an old cathode ray monitor to use instead of the flat screen on my laptop, to try to see if there is any difference -- especially to see if i'm AS prone, to be absorbed in on-line activity, with it. Alternately, a projector hooked to the laptop could be used, however it could still have the stuff in it, even though i would then be looking at a screen made of solid material, found in the "real world."
Thanks, that was very a propos. i have been very concerned about exactly what you describe, and wonder how it is that this "clickbait effect" seems very much more pronounced to me recently.
i do have a strategy of keeping on the straight and narrow when investigating on-line, and really make an effort to not deviate from it. After investigating some scams on Youtube i have made a point of never clicking on any of the recommended videos in the sidebar. Some people i know have fallen into believing and following, some of these, i.e. the one about Christianity really being about "oils" like essential oils, that are found in an ancient book (only about 100 y o, however) (which has a hook for people who don't want to believe in traditional Christianity, yet don't want to discard it completely). i could see the amount of technical effort and "psyop" techniques that went into creating something like that, and w/o a visible pay-off (except of course the small pay per view from YouTube) -- it seems like a deep state creation -- just to do something like what you wrote about -- to keep people's attention diverted and spinning around something that is not real.
i believe that there could be at least one of these psyop scams inserted in the list of recommended videos found in the sidebar of YouTube, one that has been specially selected for the particular user, based on their profile, that we all know they have been developing for each one of us.
i also wonder about what Marshall McLuhan said -- "the medium is the message." He said a lot more which is necessary to get the real context of that quote, i.e. https://youtu.be/UoCrx0scCkM Of course he made those observations long ago, in the 1960s and 70s, but we can extrapolate from television as the medium then, to the internet, now. i think it's valuable to get the perspective of visionary people in the past on these topics, since we can have blind spots that we aren't aware of, especially when we are using the internet to comment on the effects of the internet. (No doubt McLuhan was using his medium, television to comment on the effects of television, then too, but at least he wasn't on-line, so he was immune to the effect of the internet -- where our particular blind spots would be.)
i'm considering that there could be something more about our current "medium" than 'meets the eye.' Why for example, is there now all this concern, all of the sudden, about "blue light" from led screens being bad for the eyes ? The energy efficient bulbs they have all over now -- are also LEDs. Surely it can't be just the normal light frequency "blue" that they are talking about. If "blue" frequencies of light per se, was the problem, then all those people who spend time climbing mountains under the blue sky, or on a ship in blue waters found in some parts of the world, would also suffer from "blue light exposure." Then if people now need to buy specially coated glasses to reduce their exposure, why don't they just put the coating over the screen in the first place ? And those coatings on the glasses that i've seen, seem to reflect yellow not blue, as one would expect, if they were reducing blue light from going through the lens to the person's eye.
i've been quite interested in Black Goo, which is an oily substance that has peculiar properties of moving towards any person who places their attention on it. It was featured quite prominently in the TV series, the X-files.
If two quantities of Black Goo are brought in proximity, they will attract each other with a force that is not magnetism. i know a lot has been discussed on-line about Black Goo, but i like this video disclosure a British soldier made, who was involved with Black Goo during the Falkland's war in 1982. Here is a time referenced video of where he says that when large quantities of it was brought back to the UK, it was researched for use in electronic circuitry like that for cell phones -- but used how ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q34bBluvb8&t=2429s
Could minute quantities of Black Goo be found in all devices now -- or particularly in the screens of those devices ? There is the story that the Black Goo from Thule Isl. nr the Falklands was given to the Marconi Company (now merged into Marconi Communications) to develop it. A number of people working with the substance at Marconi, apparently took their own lives by very bizarre and diabolical methods (called "The Marconi Deaths"). It is said the Black Goo disconnects people from their soul and enables extreme impulses and behaviours.
If some quantity of it, is now in the circuitry of devices, or the screens themselves, could it be having a similar (but less extreme) effect -- of disconnecting users from the "real world" and connecting them instead, to another (alien ?) domain, when they view "through the screen" and watch movies which are AI inspired or even created, or when they are in a virtual reality frame of mind, thinking about what they are texting ? If it is in cellphones, then could it also have some kind of effect by being so close to the brain of people talking on them, or could it be interacting with wireless radiation (or WiFi in regards to a laptop or desktop) ?
i'm actually thinking of trying to find an old cathode ray monitor to use instead of the flat screen on my laptop, to try to see if there is any difference -- especially to see if i'm AS prone, to be absorbed in on-line activity, with it. Alternately, a projector hooked to the laptop could be used, however it could still have the stuff in it, even though i would then be looking at a screen made of solid material, found in the "real world."