r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

More Americans believe health care is the government’s responsibility. MAGA is looking to end federal programs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/health-care-government-americans-donald-trump-b2666060.html
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u/GreyLordQueekual 1d ago

You want people to focus for an hour per potential candidate when the world is focused on 10-30 second clips with a frame switch every 3-4 seconds? I agree with you, I just don't see this ever being a possibility.

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u/happyfundtimes 1d ago

It's essentially 1 hour a year, really. I genuinely believe that tiktok is a chinese/russian ploy to reduce the cognitive load of our brains and make us dependent on short bursts of dopamine. Not to mention ChatGPT. Some people have even reported "not being able to think anymore". Look into the cognitive warfare of China and Russia and you'd be surprised. Pretty similar concerns.

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u/GreyLordQueekual 1d ago

It didn't even need to be a psyop. Advertisers and television producers have been warping our attention spans for decades, slowly adapting towards sound bites and clips as the norm. Tiktok is just another thing in a set of things that puts the production in everyone's hands and the creators speedrun the ways to further dillute the way content is presented. Now we have whole generations of children exposed to this minimized version of production as their first and majority experiences.