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The internet is presented not primarily as a communications tool but as a mass surveillance system that lets military power read and manipulate regional moods through social media.
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The internet is presented not primarily as a communications tool but as a mass surveillance system that lets military power read and manipulate regional moods through social media.
The internet depends on undersea cables, and Jiang warns that conflict near Iran could cut cables and disrupt internet access for 20 to 30 percent of the world, with major effects on finance and the cloud economy.
He argues globalization, mass media, and the internet shifted young people toward individual health, happiness, and economic opportunity over community obligation.
He argues Silicon Valley is not the real source of innovation; the American military funded the underlying technologies that became personal computers and the internet.
In response to the social-media question, Jiang says Twitter and Facebook are private public faces on top of internet infrastructure built, controlled, and protected by the US military.
The city and later the internet raise abstraction: people become curious and stimulated but lose direct knowledge of where things come from and what rules govern action.
The move from village to city to internet increases abstraction and produces psychological problems.
"...called surveillance. And basically what I mean by that is the internet. So whether or not, the internet was created not to actually help..."
"Okay? All right. This is the Internet, guys. Now, you don't know this. You think that the Internet is just that you go on..."
"...moves, some cables get cut off, and then, suddenly, you've lost Internet access. And this would, basically, cause major disruptions throughout the world. All..."
"...unfortunately, because of globalization, because of mass media, because of the internet, for whatever reason, young people believe that what's important is their own..."
"Perfect Red Heifers And What people say The rumor is that These Red Heifers Have been sacrificed already So now they're getting ready To..."
"They spent billions of dollars to develop this technology. And then what happened was this technology became smaller and smaller, and so much smaller..."
"...build this fiber optic network, which is the base of the internet, okay? With this fiber optic network, you couldn't have the internet. And..."
"okay um we have a question here in that case shouldn't the social media be controlled by government like for example why twitter and..."
"...doing it right okay well answer this question who built the internet you guys do you guys know who put the internet the US..."
"Instead of reacting emotionally, the metropolitan type reacts primarily in a rational manner, thus creating a mental predominance through the intensification of consciousness, which..."
"...is a higher abstraction. And of course, today we have the internet, which is even a higher abstraction, okay? So you go from the..."
"...It's a higher abstraction. And of course, today, we have the internet, which is even a higher abstraction, okay?"
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on immigration as a game: school success is not status, rule-following can become a trap, fertility and cohesion beat obedience, and America's open-society ideal begins as a settler...
The lecture turns evil into a technology of dissociation: ancient priests allegedly learn to split the pharaoh into identities, modern institutions learn to do it to everyone, and the hard refrain is that social...
Modernism begins as a religious problem before it becomes psychology, literature, art, social media, and depression.
Freud is not introduced as a neutral founder of psychology.
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