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Jiang generalizes Dante's condition into a modern celebrity model: influencers become trapped by metrics, subscriptions, and ratings, forever chasing more attention.
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Social media
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diagnosis
Jiang says social media algorithms are designed to provoke anger because anger drives engagement and keeps people using the platforms.
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Jiang contrasts earlier mass media with platform culture by saying the evening news tried to build community and consensus, whereas social media rewards beating the other side.
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diagnosis
Jiang says that, on this reading, the worst modern figures would be influencers or people with huge followings because they hijack social consciousness or social imagination.
method
He says he does not pay attention to personal criticism because he wants to be an educator teaching people to think for themselves, not a social-media influencer arguing with other influencers.
prediction
Jiang identifies Brzezinski's charismatic personality with Donald Trump and reads mass media as today's social-media indoctrination, arguing that worsening division and economic trouble can make the public demand a Napoleon or Julius Caesar who ushers in dictatorship and an AI surveillance state.
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definition
He defines the color revolution playbook as U.S. training, NGO financing, social-media control, protest organization, and security-service bribery designed to overthrow governments using local populations.
model
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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"All they care about is their fame, right? If you're a social media influencer, what's the only thing you care about exactly, right? The..."
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"I had consumed by it. So then they are eaten alive. So then they do all kinds of extreme outrageous things because blood and..."
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"...I mean, like, I mean, there's so many examples, right. Of social media influencers who kill themselves or who do outrageous things to attract..."
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"idea of like the social media algorithms is that they're trying to provoke anger because with anger you're much more engaged you're much more..."
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"...circle of violence. But this circle of fraud. Yes? Influencers on social media? I think so. I think so. I think that's what Dante..."
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"People with like huge followings. But not me, of course. They're the worst people. Because they're hijacking the social consciousness. They're hijacking the social..."
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"...be a YouTube star, okay? I don't want to be a social media influencer who spends all his time arguing with other social media..."
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"I want to teach people how to think for themselves. Okay, and that's why I don't involve myself in arguments with other people, okay?..."
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"...guys! And the exploitation of mass media, okay? So just basically social media in order to indoctrinate and brainwash you. To obtain public confidence..."
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"...different because you have these huge populations and You know the social media so it's not Feasible for you to go bomb everyone to..."
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"...color revolution strategy in this war where you're trying to use social media You're trying to use provocateurs You're trying to use Economic strangulation..."
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"...I would also point out that these past couple of years, social media has amplified a lot of discontent. Right. So I think one..."
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