@s8n
I'll admit that's good but actually does cut it as the literal function of the term or technique...
Might be wrong but literally
"" is much more obvious in a kind of "Keep them busy way"
So while I even forgot the term "scapegoat" and is totally similar, it doesn't have the same perspective at ChewToy like an object brought to your pets or 'animals' to busy themselves with...
"Scapegoat" also has a few perspectives that I think ChewToy clarifies a lot better... scapegoat can be see as someone else's scapegoat, or general scapegoat or used for some reason for someone else's errors or plan... ChewToy seems largely not that and almost a harmless thing to absorb people's energy for what is wrong with this 'thing' in the middle.
"ChewToy" is something (usually someone) thrown out to the public to feel cathartic about attacking. Often the chewtoy is a person, who can personify a set of valid frustrations the people are experiencing. The chewtoy’s role is to soak up as much attention and anger as possible. If it’s a person generally they are safely out of reach from the people to build more and more anger over time.
above from
https://libresolutions.network/articles/chewtoys/
My comment: Quite interesting and I guess putting a name to this technique makes us realise even more the strategy of putting mostly useless people in front of us as a barrier and passive block to progress.
I suggest we find ourselves instead. But it painful whichever way as it's not the "norm" supplied to us... so don't expect comfort in communication always between the public,,, years of frustration and scamming people... but I think we can do anything if we are constant...
quotes from https://libresolutions.network/articles/tools-of-the-technocracy-5/
“the system” has advantages to completely eliminate any competition.
quotes from https://libresolutions.network/articles/
- Social media algorithms incentivize specific kinds of engagement to maximize people’s reprogramming of each other. Strong financial incentives are used to shape interactions and transform entire sectors of society in various ways.
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When it comes to perception control, every drop of prevention is worth an ocean of cure. Because we’re only at the beginning of witnessing these techniques, we can only speculate on the extent of the dangers.
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Digital currencies are a very powerful system for bootstrapping new technologies, and it is no longer inconceivable that people will be bribed into transforming their body into a test-bed for novel technology.
above from
https://libresolutions.network/articles/tools-of-the-technocracy-6/
"the internet of things are asymmetrically advantageous to the technocracy"... Quote
More below from
https://libresolutions.network/articles/eye-on-thee/;
"The Internet of things (IoT) is not so much an agenda, but a consequence of cheap, ubiquitous technology. Much of the engineering, investment, and application has gone directly into making devices better at gathering information. This information is then fed to machine learning algorithms to further “optimize” society.
[picture] eye on thee
This constant data-collection is not benign. There is an agenda to constantly push the boundaries of centralization and control. Most of the opportunities provided by the internet of things are asymmetrically advantageous to the technocracy."
TECH IS NATURALLY NOT-SO TRANSPARENT....
Technology naturally reduces or hides the decision making (both in the making, production, endusers' usage)
Uing is often easier than knowing how it works... the downfall of technology eventually if it matters to you about how / why things are done by other who and how they using it etc...
Technology today is getting less transparent:
-wording, ambiguity and range of meanings
-legality, ambiguity and range of meanings
-origins of the material, ambiguity about factories and how many, the damage they do
For example
- we don't have measurements for how and where all the metals for a motherboard came from, electricity used, countries it came from (we just get a motherboard in the post)
I know I sound like a hater but what you love you don't want to give to the other side so cheaply to bastardise, and you do want people to realise all this stuff EVEN IF YOU PAID FOR IT is costing the planet BIG... so the smaller you go the smaller the BIGTech companies too...
When you meet your idols or people you respect you're sure to see something which surprises you including not liking them totally and wondering how wrong you could have been or how normal-great they are.
I think people accepting and forgiving there things is a good thing:
- the imperfections of others
- inaccuracy in their assumptions
- people's presentation
And doesn't exist (unless it's your own!)...
"if you want a job doing you gotta do it yourself!"
@AntennaPod
I've got time today (and now) if you want to hop in for a quick chat..,
maybe mini interview / quick thing.
@skells Your uppercase is immaculate.
@vleugelcomplement
clever clever!
Like what you did there!
It's not a good compliment to say that believing in a whole commercial mainstream system with lots of resources in the world and more finance than any 1 individual is quite the useless system without the will to actually solve things or sort things openly. A big company or even a government is this.
In fact I think believing in 1 person and one by one going through stuff will actually achieve a ore in a more meaningful way than the illusion of being BIG or middle men filtering meaning and rapidly doing the unsoulful.
The vital component in the end is:
THE WILL TO REALLY SOLVE THINGS and looping back towards people in healthy way...
@AntennaPod
Would you like to make mini podcast about it about any angle of it?
Dead laptop... any ideas / things to try?...
@rberlim yeah good reminder - just finding it hard to search for it but this helps remind me even right after writing this I might do it
The preference of money quite rightly has reasons (in the wrong way if you scratch the surface)
because:
- doing it yourself is harder / needs more learning / space / time / needs willpower and like babies we might cry at the first hurdle
- asking others involves lowering pride /' accepting need (the other ways mask this a bit more / create distance)
- asking others involves their politics and yours and that's a headache unless you think you're good at arguing and not losing it
- pre-approved ways / government authorised makes it easier for people to by no matter the back story on how government got this approval (by force / faux-legal means / subsidy)
- People are already paying more for things and even paying multiple times, but then are happy to get things 'cheaper' on a shelf
- Long distance resources and people damage are a lot easier to hide when further away then your own country
- Countries or people designing for it don't want people to DIY but earn money and tax them
Lots of genuine reasons why money, both people-related reasons and financial... almost always both... which catches up if you imagine accumilation in what we don't personally practice (planting at bit) or leave personally to others (using petroleum to manage distribution network growing false security or that based on Saudia Arabia oil or wherever, some connected to the dollar, just more bad extensions)
I don't claim we can do it all but anyway together we need to do it all else be divided / flanked
Unanswered posts list- for pinning
NAcroutonprivaterobotdistrict@noagendasocial.com
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108650656624502989
LucifarGundam
https://qoto.org/@lucifargundam/108630099723559688
Modern Matrix = Uncaring Numerical & Monetary Design with Uncaring Designers, for the overall aim of uncaring Empires looking for maximising taxation and profit and use it's own tender and currency for Devaluing almost everything artificially using %'s and $elling / Renting People and Planet for Profit.
(please correct or add your own version of how life is just a matrix
if you can do better it in a similar light)
It's about changing / opening our minds...
I give people time and I thnk that's the difference to others online who really don't have or give time and give up on people really easy... (don't mean to be competitive, no put-downs, just I more dedicate time to others and weave us together).
So you don't even have to read any of this because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that a lot is broken and even less human even if it's for good...
Just follow and put notifications on to TEST MY FEED.... the rest below is just over-info for most poeple.
Open Learning School or Freedom University...
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A lot you might be at length and depth, but if you're easy about it, you can take the best and even take me along to understand life with others!
To learn and do everything practically! (this is a practical living (and gets stuff done as much as we can).
Fan of Fediverse!
Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Mini-Podcast (few mins each, examples below)
█ Picture remixes / video remixes
█ Lessons without being too 'teacher' about it. Teacher has teeth for eliminating doubt.
█ Food for thought as gentle soul also.
█ Unique ideas - often impossible for professionals (they are burdened by financial repsonsibility and therefore associational risk in saying things). I'm more diverse and occasionally direct (with respect, though I don't shy away from reminding people).
█ Not too embarrassing to say "I don't know" but can still chase things.
█ More responsive than casual users usually because people think having 'job' is enough in life. I say it's not! And even faimily is of no use if it's only getting worse (in everything!).
Podcast Examples:
1. Gary Ackerman's thoughts on AI
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522723922385
2. The Little Prince book
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561003150354
3. Fantasy genre from a fan's perspective
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709367492677
I help people create audio / edit educational audio / podcast / music / visual short videos / transcript text
+ I like to add a bit humour while being quite strict in my own politics (opinions) but open / inviting for others to tell me what I should do if they can explain more than just a short comment (I don't mind it's healthy for me at least if you have logic and can stand yourself explaining).
FreeSchool is about Learning towards Freedom (which is about Uniting everyone slowly, even "1 by 1"... Easy with The Fediverse!
Not virtue signalling here only, but practise of EVERYTHING as we go. Judged by getting in contact (many have) and having courage to communicate (or seeking it from others is ok, EVERYONE needs a bit of courage or hand-holding to make big personal changes). Who else is there for example if family doesn't understand?
Learning and watching can be good and staying out of people's way, BUT better is doing something every day and helping each other with some tough decisions / lessons... and then being bold enough to do them. 1... 2... 3 that is all that's needed.
Let my posts do most of the talking.
Put me on notification (click bell that appears after follow ia accepted) and if it's not interesting switch off after and tick me off the list of potential people to follow daily!
Media version of my posts here... open link for later... good for visual scrolling version and judge me on that I don't mind...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
I'm usually impressed with my media gallery as I work on posts a lot usually or hit the "Aha!" moments and capture it (other people may forget it for years, not me!).
Freedom is about *making it work together* better like using #Mastodon on the #Fediverse daily for better platforms with more #bestpractices and 'best' people to help us which I kind of collect here and
when it's #1 comment!
I am measurably better because I reply and stick to everything to the end(!)
No cancelling friendship suddenly without saying why or being moody!
Freedom is to Learn, Respect and Love eventually and ️to Unite!
Practically it's also like Tetris - add yourself to the puzzle and watch it all happen...
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talk more on Mastodon and the Fediverse and puzzle it all out using better ways to less use the other bad commercial / extractive people...
L£$$ of the less caring people like the ggl's / ytb / gmail / mainstream communication points etc who are offering lots of space 'free' and it's not free of peace there.
We GIVE to real people (TIME NOT JUST MONEY).
There's no buy-in solution - we have to make it with selotape or whatever we have - it's not shameful to bring whatever you have.
FreeSchool is terminology put together from many good things from past (coined in 1950's/60's. I / we become it eventually through being.
It's a movement for Freedom via Learning it all (learning self included and less active stuff) and doing the learning *together* --> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeschool.
I encourage you warmly to participate with me as a I have time and then spiral out naturally to others (we are part of humanity and so naturally a sort of evangelism or ecological pyramid of life as we choose to spread lesser suffering while accepting consuming is part of it).
Less-commercial in orientation (in everything) and happy to think / work for free.
Naturally you will hesitate if someone is sure of themself or ok standing on shoulders what we copy do the best from humbly but not too sterile either.
Based on just emotions ruins almost everything, which seems very common - very ungraceful - so don't disconnect... do it gracefully at least!
A "school" of thought is here you can interact / ask and make best together as free/low cost as possible.
Even a bad answer you can take best from (of course I won't know all your situation when I suggest something but I don't need to answer 100% - you also need to help me!).
Leave perfectionism, we are all imperfect humans! Let's do it... Choose something ANYTHING and keep the thoughts rolling together...!
All content under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-NC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot