They keep making up new words in avoiding the truth, so they cannot even use the words truth or true, they make them so uncomfortable. They always seek to impersonate the truth while being filled with lies. Like satan. Let’s share their actual meanings:
misinformation = the real & true info people missed, often kept hidden, canceled, jailed, and at times disappeared.
disinformation = the real & true info people dismissed, often maligned, altered, slandered, and at times disappeared.
digital citizenship = congratulations, you are now actually just a number, unless you do not comply and stand up against enslavement.
"California has decided against independent critical thinking for its coming generations. Instead of rational skepticism about everything, Californians are to teach their children blind faith in the “established” narratives.
Far from combating “misinformation”, this California legislation is guaranteed to institutionalize it. "
"Beyond “who am I?” these questions frame our individual identities in a broader social historical context and in relation to other groups. Part of understanding our identity, therefore, means understanding how we fit in (or don’t) with other groups of people. It also means being aware of the fact that some groups have more social, political, and economic power than others."
From the critical media site.
This is the core problem with the "media literacy" concept -- it necessarily entails a measure of indoctrination.
As a matter of simple psychological reality, the very idea of people relating to "groups" is absurd. Individuals relate to and communicate with individuals. It is impossible for any interactive communication to occur except between individuals, which immediately and permanently eviscerates the very notion of "group identification" (I am an American male of predominantly Scots and Irish ancestry, but being neurodivergent I don't fit into any group of any kind).
Children especially should not be indoctrinated into specific group identifications. They should have the freedom to figure out for themselves how their ancestry, physicality, and all the rest blend into that single most important pronoun "I".
That cannot happen if they are not encouraged to think for themselves, to question everything around them, and to challenge prevailing wisdoms. Only when we can celebrate the question "why?" are we on a path to understanding of anything.
These curricula, from what I can see of them, thwart that ambition absolutely.
I’m probably just restating what you’ve said, but the idea of group association means a lot when you zoom out, because groups are easily grouped again, until you just have one or two big groups of groups. If you can get one to associate with a smaller relational group in some way, and that group gets associated with a larger group (think lgbtqia+-2s...) and then adopted by an even larger group, indoctrination becomes easy, because the big group holds a lot of power and can market itself to the smaller groups just by (forced?) alignment, or pretend representation.
Elsewhere on that same critical media site it talks about how different groups have different levels of "power".
If all human relationships are simply a quest for more power, we're already doomed and living in one of the nine circles of Hell, as far as I'm concerned.
100%. To be fair there are a few good ideas thrown into these curriculums like questioning the sources and narratives but any time I hear “through the lens of...”, I have to question the motive.
The essential point is that all narratives are, to some degree, illegitimate, even mine.
Narratives are built on a subset of facts, and it is next to impossible to include all the facts on a particular issue in a single article. Consequently, every narrative is biased and incomplete, practically by definition.
Wow, thank you. I noticed the bias has worsened in internet searches even between DuckDuckGo on Safari vs Brave. Recently it was frustrating trying to find unbiased facts and Brave was better but with this new law it seems that finding facts is going to get harder. Thank you for work in keeping us informed.
They keep making up new words in avoiding the truth, so they cannot even use the words truth or true, they make them so uncomfortable. They always seek to impersonate the truth while being filled with lies. Like satan. Let’s share their actual meanings:
misinformation = the real & true info people missed, often kept hidden, canceled, jailed, and at times disappeared.
disinformation = the real & true info people dismissed, often maligned, altered, slandered, and at times disappeared.
digital citizenship = congratulations, you are now actually just a number, unless you do not comply and stand up against enslavement.
Great Observation ...
"California has decided against independent critical thinking for its coming generations. Instead of rational skepticism about everything, Californians are to teach their children blind faith in the “established” narratives.
Far from combating “misinformation”, this California legislation is guaranteed to institutionalize it. "
I did a tiny bit of research around media literacy curriculums. This is a decent starting point https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/ml/ which links to this interesting site https://criticalmediaproject.org and this one, but most of the material is hidden behind a login https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum and one more https://www.learningforjustice.org
There are a few more links there, but it doesn’t take a doctorate in media literacy to spot a few trends.
"Beyond “who am I?” these questions frame our individual identities in a broader social historical context and in relation to other groups. Part of understanding our identity, therefore, means understanding how we fit in (or don’t) with other groups of people. It also means being aware of the fact that some groups have more social, political, and economic power than others."
From the critical media site.
This is the core problem with the "media literacy" concept -- it necessarily entails a measure of indoctrination.
As a matter of simple psychological reality, the very idea of people relating to "groups" is absurd. Individuals relate to and communicate with individuals. It is impossible for any interactive communication to occur except between individuals, which immediately and permanently eviscerates the very notion of "group identification" (I am an American male of predominantly Scots and Irish ancestry, but being neurodivergent I don't fit into any group of any kind).
Children especially should not be indoctrinated into specific group identifications. They should have the freedom to figure out for themselves how their ancestry, physicality, and all the rest blend into that single most important pronoun "I".
That cannot happen if they are not encouraged to think for themselves, to question everything around them, and to challenge prevailing wisdoms. Only when we can celebrate the question "why?" are we on a path to understanding of anything.
These curricula, from what I can see of them, thwart that ambition absolutely.
I’m probably just restating what you’ve said, but the idea of group association means a lot when you zoom out, because groups are easily grouped again, until you just have one or two big groups of groups. If you can get one to associate with a smaller relational group in some way, and that group gets associated with a larger group (think lgbtqia+-2s...) and then adopted by an even larger group, indoctrination becomes easy, because the big group holds a lot of power and can market itself to the smaller groups just by (forced?) alignment, or pretend representation.
Elsewhere on that same critical media site it talks about how different groups have different levels of "power".
If all human relationships are simply a quest for more power, we're already doomed and living in one of the nine circles of Hell, as far as I'm concerned.
I can see that an alternative curriculum is needed for pushback.
100%. To be fair there are a few good ideas thrown into these curriculums like questioning the sources and narratives but any time I hear “through the lens of...”, I have to question the motive.
The essential point is that all narratives are, to some degree, illegitimate, even mine.
Narratives are built on a subset of facts, and it is next to impossible to include all the facts on a particular issue in a single article. Consequently, every narrative is biased and incomplete, practically by definition.
How about they just revive Civics classes? But then we’d know what our rights are and how government is supposed to work...
Is it related to this org?
https://twitter.com/MediaLitNow?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Wow, thank you. I noticed the bias has worsened in internet searches even between DuckDuckGo on Safari vs Brave. Recently it was frustrating trying to find unbiased facts and Brave was better but with this new law it seems that finding facts is going to get harder. Thank you for work in keeping us informed.