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Resistance is futile (lemmy.world)
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[–] 95 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I find it pretty easy actually, it's alien now but in a way that can be classified and instantly dismissed.

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  • [–] 86 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    My reaction is instant annoyance and avoidance. I don't remember anything about the ad either, so it doesn't make it any more memorable either.

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  • [–] 30 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly.

    My brain just hears "buy product! We like our product to spend money on it to try to influence you! Now look at these pictures or hear these sounds of said product"

    Like man in a suit walking up to me on the street and asking if I'd buy a cheeseburger from him because he likes it a lot.

    Enjoy your product sir, ill be leaving now.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Same goes for influencers and internet celebrities. Or any celebrity.

    Being almost completely detached from that lifestyle... It's very weird seeing it.

    ...it's scary too. That culture starts to look more like the culture of skid row. Just people that lost their minds. (Heavy generalization)

    Shit... Just people that do those selfy videos with their opinion creep me tf out. ...and twitter opinions... Etc... what a weird place we live. And most of the opinions are just regular marketed news opinions recycled because these people don't even know how to be genuine or think for themselves. I feel like there's an epidemic and most people are zombies detached from honest genuine humanity. And it's so prominent...

    Once you zoom out and view the humanity from a detached state, it just looks so fucking brainless, immature, and lacking integrity. ...even the "successful" people.

    For example... In America you basically can't have an original serious genuine conversation about existentialism or honest politics. Most of the people don't know how to think originally. Like it's like talking to robots that were all built on a factory line and they only have the set of thoughts they were programmed to have.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Tge problem isn't so much that people have changed. It is that these people are more visible. It's a scale issue. The general public has always been this stupid, but before social media, they just kept to their local communities or even just their own households. Now those communities are online, global and mainstream and even the houswewives you wouldn't normally see are there. It's all the people, all at once.

    Unless you want to do something about it, you can best ignore them. Stick to your own group and your own family. You'll be much happier that way.

    If you do want to do something. Repetition is key. Keep having the arguments that seem so pointless. Keep pointing to tge facts and the science,even though they don't seem to listen. If they hear it often enough and from enough directions, it might spark something.

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