Popular Culture III: Time

A reflection on how our perceptions of time are shaped by the media environment in which we are emersed.

[@MuiguaFilm]

I appreciate this so much i regularly come back to listen over and over again. its like the add on effect of your favourite music that brings you to a happy place and you stand still in the moment just absorbing your environment. very grateful bro

[@FF-pi9fq]

There are banks in my town that have three different TV screens in the main lobby that basically show propaganda for the bank. If you're looking at the tellers, or to the right or left, you have a TV showing the bank's success stories in your vision. Even INSIDE the bank that same bank is still vying for your attention. It strikes me as so odd and wasteful. You'd think if we truly thought money were that important we wouldn't be trying to distract people while they deal with it.

[@davidpeterson8442]

Sleep is a good removal of distractions. Many times I have solved a problem in my sleep that I spent hours on the day before. The brain must continue on task!

[@ruslanuchan8880]

For the homework, my favourite ads is probably the Icelandverse (it's on youtube) that makes a parody of the Metaverse (not sure if it really counts as ads though, but it successfully made me see the video until the end)

[@mefistogirl]

Literally the moment this lecture finished I got bombarded with an ad 😂

[@baller1325]

Anytime I travel somewhere that billboards and big advertising is illegal. I realize how much time I have to ponder/think.

[@cyberpunkworld]

Well. What is it that I can possibly say. Come to Perth, stay six months at UWA, and go as hard as you can possibly can. :)

[@alan2here]

turn off noisy and pop-up style notifications, check your notifications all when convenient, for example just once a day

[@cyberpunkworld]

Hawaii or California?

[@tomasmiller5502]

Hi Wes, you must be living somewhere on the Moon. At least 50% of people are artificially employed (depending on how you define it), and they desperately compete for getting some of the printed money so that they could deliver their only value, i.e. the value of a consumer. For that, they are fully devoted to their employer (multinational company, advisors like PWC, and many others), dedicated to long hours, availability anytime, open space, multitasking, and doing whatever bullshit is needed. Hoping not to be fired, because the only value that they can provide is the value of a consumer. I hope that the ancient philosophers were not that much out of touch with reality.

[@Great_Olaf5]

18:19 Wait. Is that how that's supposed to work? My brain certainly doesn't do that. I mean first off, I can definitely tell the difference between quiet and loud rooms when I'm taking a test, and I prefer the latter, though with work in general noise has variable impacts, but it's _never_ the case that my sense just shuts off.

[@TomRauhe]

Your sense of hearing of course doesn't shut off, but the brain processing of sounds does.

[@Great_Olaf5]

@@TomRauhe Again, not really. It's probably my autism, I know that influences the way the brain filters information, but I just don't do that. When I'm focusing on things, it takes a conscious effort, and it's not like other things fall out of my awareness, they're still right there, always. One of the journal things the brain filters out, for example? When you wear clothes, or glasses, you feel them at first, but your brain gradually tones down your awareness of them as you've been wearing them, from west I've gathered talking to people without autism, you usually stop being consciously aware of the touch sensations from your clothes after a few minutes. That doesn't happen with me, I'm just as aware of my clothes and glasses as I was the moment I put them on, even hours later, it can be very distracting, and I tend to fidget a lot because of it.

[@TomRauhe]

@@Great_Olaf5 That is why people with severe autism aren't allowed to drive a car in my country, because it's impossible for you to tell what is actually important in a current situation. You might miss the child running into the road, because you are occupied with the birds and trees and feel of your clothes. Let me just tell you that people filter out 95% of everything at all times. Which is a boon and a curse, of course.

[@Great_Olaf5]

@@TomRauhe Well, I can't drive because of my poor vision anyway.

[@cyberpunkworld]

That's where you should go. They are ready for a man like you :)

[@TomRauhe]

That's why the amount of damage something like FOX News is able to do to the American society is immeasurable and can never be underestimated

[@cyberpunkworld]

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[@desconstrucaocriativa]

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