It's quite ironic to come across this post when i did. For one, i was just thinking how nice you and your brother's photos are. I was thinking y'all should try a photography post every now and then.... but i figured that you would have already if you wanted to.
Then when i saw the title... my first thought while i waited for the post to load was what you quoted at the end. One man's trash is another man's treasure. I was even trying to formulate a pun to joke about Steemit vs. Hive.
Then while reading, my mind kept seeing an image of a baby bird being fed regurgitated predigested food from a larger bird. Then i read you say 'pre-chewed.'
I think when it comes to thoughts or thinking that there are often overlaps. The scope and range of some of those overlaps are probably limited by the capability, or lack thereof, to adapt a thought process that transcends personal experience or one's own worldview. I feel like the science of the mind in individuals and groups is being exploited to help cultivate a populus that thrives in the mentally void spaces of where civilization is being steered.
Maybe it's more of a pattern depending on how a way of thinking is developed. It may take some sub or unconscious effort to actually not think. However, it's beyond provable modern society has been programmed to Be Programmed. Leave the thinking up to the ones in charge... or the experts, or the news, or the people with money, or the brands and companies we trust so much. It's like a neverending labyrinth for those blindly navigating the corridors of cognition.
I guess in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Thanks for the provocation to thought, as usual. =)
I completely agree. And not only that, it is being used to make us feel like we are smart enough to not be exploited, while we are consistently bent over and screwed.
We are consistently being broadcast messages that direct our actions with premeditation, and still we think that we are thinking for ourselves, as we do exactly what we are directed to do.
Precisely! We have all heard of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias but I recently just found out about cognitive ease. I think you would enjoy scratching that surface if you aren't already familiar.
I think social engineering over the long-term has conditioned the masses to feel like the cognitive path of least resistance is probably the right path or the more virtuous one.
It feels like the infamous 'they ' have compartmentalized most of the predictable outcomes and have moseyed the herd into each pigeon hole fitting for the choice of the individual. Hegelian dialect all the way... thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
Yes. they have made it appear that the workless life is the easy path, when it leads to an increasingly difficult future full of suffering.
And yep - compartmentalization at the granular level - makes us all increasingly fragmented from each other, with everyone an enemy. "Divide and conquer" in the digital age.