How We Got Here (Jerry's amateur theory)
Channel: Jerry Michalski
Date: 10/02/2023

This is a spontaneous threading of narratives into a big-picture description of the socio-political crisis in which we find ourselves.

This video, in my Brain: https://bra.in/9vmbbZ

0:00 Briefly blurry video
0:18 We are in a non-linear war
0:46 People are really smart
1:29 Today's stupidity was engineered
1:42 Human history is a fight over the joystick
2:28 Mao's Four Pests campaign killed millions
2:50 Fear makes people malleable
2:54 Conservatives have mastered human dynamics
3:20 New tech reduces cost of information to near zero
3:40 Platforms are designed to addict and stalk us
4:10 "Consumerization" has dumbed us down
5:02 Bannon is a brilliant, evil strategist
5:16 Rise of the Far Right worldwide
5:22 Citizens United and our bitter split
5:51 Denial of Discourse Attacks
6:20 Lindsey Graham on fire is theater
6:57 We need to figure out how to trust one another

More resources:
The longer Zoom it's part of: https://bra.in/4qzKKb
Brain? What? See https://www.jerrysbrain.com/