So, my personality and beliefs are strongly influenced by what I’ve absorbed into my “neural network”? In other words, I’ve learned stuff and that has influenced me….
Not nearly as profound (or nefarious) as he tries to make it sound.
Also, I’ll take an appreciation on Marvel movies over an anti-vax death cult any day.
It’s no wonder why I am so screwed up!
Because I am:
Willy Wonka
Travis Bickle
Ellen Ripley
Jules Winnfield
Jake LaMotta
Maria Von Trapp
and
Dale Cooper
So hang on. Are we thinking that Hollywood didn’t create everyone’s personalities at home from their favourite movies?
Because I was definitely Zorro at one point in the early 1970’s. Also the Lone Ranger.
It’s very peculiar: watching someone who happens to be talking about an area where their…unique alternative way of knowing… actually happens to be reasonably congruent with general opinion; but then deliberately veering off into the weeds of cryptic metaphysics and truly atrocious folk etymology.
Like seeing a scholastic theologian at a physics conference; getting warmed up with a little chat about the area of low speeds and short distances where roughly Aristotelian mechanics often doesn’t differ enough from the real stuff to matter for everyday purposes; then going full into efficient, formal; and final causes and substances and accidents.
It’s not really a big surprise to say that you can influence people’s attitudes through media; that’s kind of the foundational axiom of advertising; and surveys bear out that antivax attitudes correlate fairly strongly with types of media consumption; but then you had to go and drag ‘holy wood’ and their construction of a false persona through your neural network that you won’t escape unless you something something real soul…into it.
No way! We could have had a sword fight, because I had a spare sword when I was Zorro, in case anyone wanted to sword fight.
My little sister didn’t want to because I hit her on the knuckle once accidently, and she cried. She might have been Wonder Woman at the time, I can’t remember.