Great work as always! I recently had a conversation with Jonathan Gold, a Buddhist scholar at Princeton who seeks to observe political theory from a Buddhist light. He was explaining how social media algorithm feeds people’s three poison (attachment, hatred, and ignorance) in order to have them stay on it longer to sell their attention to advertisers. He then connected such phenomenon to how Trump occupied public attention by inventing division and hate, therefore providing the news and media industry the attention they need. Connecting with Inferno, Buddhist also believes in different levels of hell where people suffer immensely, and it saddens me how modern technology systematically produces illusions and increase suffering, pushing people towards hell-on-earth. Really insightful observations!
Great work as always! I recently had a conversation with Jonathan Gold, a Buddhist scholar at Princeton who seeks to observe political theory from a Buddhist light. He was explaining how social media algorithm feeds people’s three poison (attachment, hatred, and ignorance) in order to have them stay on it longer to sell their attention to advertisers. He then connected such phenomenon to how Trump occupied public attention by inventing division and hate, therefore providing the news and media industry the attention they need. Connecting with Inferno, Buddhist also believes in different levels of hell where people suffer immensely, and it saddens me how modern technology systematically produces illusions and increase suffering, pushing people towards hell-on-earth. Really insightful observations!