Do you not remember…when we were 14 and every two weeks cnn, fox, msnbc, erc were running segments on how The Teens™ were sending Sexts™ and Punching The Elderly™ and NONE of it was real
They made up from whole cloth “The Knockout Game” and we knew that and we railed against it and they made up text shorthand and mistranslated ones that were real and we knew that and we railed against it and we told every single adult we knew that no, “GNOC” was absolutely not a real acronym and god no no one says shit like that get real
But somehow we just…fucking forgot? We just forgot that these news stations make a living off lying to scared elderly people and parents who don’t understand the world and don’t understand their kids
And now we as a generation tune in to the same stations that not even ten years ago we KNEW were liars and bullshitters and we just swallow whatever they say without hesitation
What the fuck dude? How did you just forget?
See, that’s the thing. If you know a lot about something, you’ll notice how much the media has no idea what they’re talking about when they cover it. From that, you can deduct how much they’re bullshitting you on the things you’re not an expert in.
One of my favorite topics: the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
“ Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
i think the horror genre as a medium to express female trauma is really good and can be done in a way thats truly impactful and beautiful but when men utilise it to fulfil some fantasy of theirs and completely miss the mark and it just turns into them getting off to women’s pain makes me wanna truly commit unspeakable acts and by that i mean storm hollywood and kill every male director in sight
