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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear <<empyreans>>,<br>
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...another brief comment: in the wake of FBI Dir. James Comey and
NSA Dir. Adm. Mike Rogers's debunking of claims of presidential
wiretapping, a BBC commentator said that the president will want
to "move the conversation onto other subjects"... <br>
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...corollary to online radicalisation by ISL using social media,
online radicalisation by alt-right through social media (enhanced
by filter bubble type effects*) (other radicalisations may be
substituted for these):<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/15/alt-right-manosphere-mainstream-politics-breitbart">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/15/alt-right-manosphere-mainstream-politics-breitbart</a><br>
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*..."describes the tendency of social networks like Facebook and
Twitter to lock users into personalized feedback loops, each with
its own news sources, cultural touchstones and political
inclinations. We seem to like these places, and so do social media
companies — they keep us clicking from one self-affirmation to
another." - from <a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/arts/the-battle-over-your-political-bubble.html?_r=0">here</a><br>
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...since they are micro theatres of consciousness itself, I doubt
that this goes far enough in explaining the power of epistemic
bubbles (as systems of internal resonance, the gratifications of
which are internalising and internalised, like a language, like
the promise one makes to oneself, to be reinforced at every
opportunity: <i>I am a ... </i>) (tell oneself something often
enough and it will engage belief). For effects of epistemic
bubbles to take hold no prior disaffection is necessary but is a
matter of contingency, of the contingency of what is <i>outside</i>
(which externality is annulled and from which one is freed by
belief).<br>
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On 21/03/17 07:43, William Bain wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:1388765681.3933147.1490035382551@mail.yahoo.com"
type="cite"><span style=""
id="yiv7472340589yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_11320"
lang="EN-GB">Micro Theatre</span></blockquote>
Best,<br>
Simon<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://squarewhiteworld.com/">http://squarewhiteworld.com/</a><br>
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