{"id":4612,"date":"2018-02-23T18:57:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2024-06-06T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:35:51","slug":"culture-of-outrage-promotes-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/02\/23\/culture-of-outrage-promotes-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture of outrage promotes idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Or as a friend points out, a culture of idiocy promotes outrage!<\/em><br>\nFace palm. A U.S. flag is flying above the flag of Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In our political climate, a Norwegian flag, with its blue-and-white cross, was mistaken for a Confederate flag. Questions ensued in the Greenwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Rebecca Morris is a well known author of crime novels that have been on the New York Times Bestseller list. She reported the flying of the &#8220;Confederate Flag&#8221; to the newspaper and because unlike the rest of us, she&#8217;s an important person, the paper looked into it. She is formerly a journalist for The Oregonian and The Seattle Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/both-have-crosses-so-norwegian-flag-mistaken-for-confederate-flag\/\">\u2018Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying\u2019 in Seattle\u2019s Greenwood area \u2013 well, not quite | The Seattle Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morris has a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a world where we must continually seek opportunities to be outraged, this is what happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In a world where outrage is promoted on social media, this is what happens.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We are losing our ability to think for ourselves and are allowing ourselves to be controlled by social media and media propaganda.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s not the message, its the medium itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Update: I just read something a friend <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/a-professor-not-to-be-pigeonholed\/?utm_source=zapier&amp;utm\">shared<\/a> on FB. This suggests one intent of propaganda is that we are not to think for ourselves, but to instead pursue collectivism and collectivist thought by outsourcing our thinking to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or as a friend points out, a culture of idiocy promotes outrage! Face palm. A U.S. flag is flying above the flag of Norway. In our political climate, a Norwegian flag, with its blue-and-white cross, was mistaken for a Confederate flag. Questions ensued in the Greenwood neighborhood. Rebecca Morris is a well known author of crime novels that have been on the New York Times Bestseller list. She reported the flying of the &#8220;Confederate Flag&#8221; to the newspaper and because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/02\/23\/culture-of-outrage-promotes-idiocy\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}