welcome to busy bring Club where
thinking is free and we should do more
of it in this video we're going to
discuss the Juggernaut Elon Musk and his
acquisition of Twitter which has made
him the most uncancelable man in the
world Elon Musk has made it very clear
that his intentions in acquiring Twitter
was to protect freedom of speech because
as you know it with most social media
platforms they have been actively
suppressing and promoting different
forms of information it has gotten so
bad that people are unsure what they can
post without getting flagged or
suspended and so people have been
self-censoring themselves trying not to
discuss discuss touchy topics which is
unfortunate our typical way of acquiring
information is not any better most
people still trust or current news
organizations they call themselves The
mainstream media the trust was inherited
from our parents watching the news back
then the competition for providing news
wasn't this intense and so the news
organizations never needed to resort to
the most salacious stories to keep your
attention that was always reserved for
Tabloid magazines at the supermarket you
remember those right the ones where
aliens would abduct celebrities and some
crazy conspiracy theory but because of
human psychology we tend to pay
attention to negative news stories
versus positive ones example if I had
two videos one of cute puppies and one
of a plane crash and you are given the
option to watch both of them which one
would you watch first it doesn't matter
which one you choose statistically
speaking most people will choose to
watch the plane crash first so we are at
the mercy of our own psychology and so
if news organizations want our attention
they just put the most delicious stories
at the top and in a capitalist world the
news organizations competing for the
same eyeballs and this is a good way of
getting the eyeballs to stay relevant
what do you think is going to happen
people think it's some big conspiracy
it's not it's just human psychology in a
world of capitalism and so news
organizations become tabloids and
tabloids because of relevance they
become news organizations there are some
people who do not trust the mainstream
media for their news sources you know
the CNN's NBC is Fox News they turn to
social media for their news hoping
they'll get a more balanced approach or
a more unfiltered version of current
events or a situation the truth is even
social media has already been co-opted
and promote the values of certain
interest groups through deceptive or
outright lies they are very aware of the
psychological manipulation that can
happen with an effective message and
marketing dollars just as advertisement
is used to psychologically brainwash you
into thinking a particular product is
better than the other they've utilized
this to get you to think a certain way
don't believe me let me give you an
example I am from Jamaica growing up we
had a bunch of different beverages to
choose from two particular beverages
competing for our attention Pepsi and
Coca-Cola in Jamaica Pepsi is dominant
the dominant beverage of choice in all
the fast food restaurants Coke exists
but only as a secondary Choice when I go
to one of those fast food restaurants I
don't think about what I want to drink
my default beverage is a Pepsi and it's
marketing dollars advertisement has made
it so I choose Pepsi am I obsessed with
the flavor of Pepsi is it like to die
for no it's just the default beverage
you choose when you cannot make up your
mind and this is in Jamaica right that
is the nature of the brainwash now when
I moved to the United States where Coke
is more dominant my default beverage has
now become Coke yes it is different than
Pepsi but it's not that far off I
acquire the taste of coke and now if I
should go to a restaurant my default
soda pop beverage is a Coke I never
asked for Pepsi a lot of people know and
are aware of the manipulation and the
psychological warfare of ideas it is at
that point where people are
untrustworthy of information apparently
because there is too much information
and no vigorous debate to call the bad
stuff exist you see it's not necessary
for everyone to be a part of the debate
we just need to observe it but if you
cancel everyone or you censor one side
versus the other we cannot have the
debate I have established opinions about
different topics in life without having
to engage in it specifically I just
watch all the debates surrounding the
topics formerly my opinion from the
conversation an example of a debate that
never happened during the pandemic if
you use the c word in any post you'll be
flagged and demonetized so people went
to elaborate lens to not say the word
I've heard them describe the thing as
human malware you know so that is
self-censorship at its best it's similar
to an experience Elon Musk had when he
was discussing the pandemic I remember
an interview he did with a lady D and
she was pressing him about his comments
and this is after everybody was throwing
Elon under the bus about his tweets he
was visibly uncomfortable because he was
ridiculed and criticized for his
opinions which I assume was informed by
data he was looking at which to be
honest wasn't fully expressed so I don't
know the details of it now granted I'm
not going to go to Elam was asking him
about health advice but remember he's
still an engineer an Engineers crunch
numbers they don't get a pass for
fudging numbers in an engineer's life
you fudge the numbers and someone dies
so it would have been nice to hear his
opinion on the data have a rigorous
debate about the virus but this is the
problem with our current social media
platforms it is too filtered and
censored I may have disagreed with Elon
but I won't know because he has never
expressed his viewpoint since in any
complete way and any discussions
surrounding the matter never happened
imagine a world where we actually had
that discussion it may have led to new
ideas new thinking surrounding the
matter so Elon Musk acquisition of
Twitter should allow for better
discourse amongst everyone on the planet
for eight dollars now I'm on the fence
about this eight dollars but I
understand it's an effective way to
remove the spam content but I will wait
to see what my experience is without
paying the eight dollars if I choose not
to be actively involved in these
discussions maybe it's not necessary for
me to pay the eight dollars because I
will sit on the sidelines watching the
discussions and the debates happen with
real people and maybe that's enough to
form a better opinion it is unclear if
Elon Musk will be successful with
Twitter in that regard however it's not
the full picture Elon was real plan is
to be uncancelable you heard me to be on
if that's really a word so if you were
to design a world where you are
uncancelable what would you need one
you'd need a social media platform you
need your own bank or payment processing
and you would need to be an internet
service provider elamos is playing the
long game and he understands with this
game he needs a platform in which he
could constructively have discourse
about complex issues with the whole
community and and common truth emerging
out of the the battles between both
sides in this scenario you won't be able
to hide behind marketing dollars the new
Twitter sphere should solve this and I
can't wait to see the results if you
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