Platforms, Algorithms & Castle Walls: Social Media, Digital Power & Control

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In the modern world, our castles are coded and our kings are unseen. Platforms and algorithms have become the new feudal lords — shaping our conversations, filtering our perceptions, and deciding what reality looks like. In this episode, George Monty explores the architecture of digital power, the psychology of algorithmic influence, and the human cost of life inside these invisible kingdoms.

In this episode:

• How algorithms quietly engineer behavior and emotion
• The psychology of control and dependency in digital spaces
• Why social platforms mirror medieval hierarchies
• The illusion of choice in algorithmic design
• Strategies for reclaiming digital sovereignty and awareness

Transcript
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Speaker 0 (0s): Well, well, well, Hello. My friends. Did you miss me? I missed you. I hope you're well, a smile. And right now our blue skies, smiling at you or the waves waiving to you who Whoo over here. Hey com take a dip. Water is nice. How about the trees? The trees bending their branches low for you.

Can you smell that? Ah, fresh air for me? It's the salt there,

Speaker 1 (39s): Right?

Speaker 0 (43s): We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint

Speaker 1 (1m 6s): And lo it is our own Arthur S Eddington had a thought today.

Speaker 0 (1m 18s): Maybe you will share this thought AB you have had this thought. Maybe you were thinking of it right now. No, no, no, its not how handsome I am. But if you're having that thought, you're not alone. Trust me. You're not alone. The thought I had was about change, not the kind of in your pocket. No real change, different presidents, Deserts and oceans change.

You can see a, a forest being clear. Cut. That's changed. How about moving from one town to another? That's changed. How about your environment? Let's just kind of expand it out a little bit. The environment in which you live is changing, right? I'm sure you can think of multiple ways of change, but have you thought about this? Have you thought that when you have experienced change, it's not that The subject in which has changed.

It's not that what you're thinking about has changed. It's not the subject of what you're thinking about that has changed. It is your thoughts that have changed. Do you see the difference there?

Speaker 1 (2m 53s): Right?

Speaker 0 (2m 54s): There's a difference. Profound change comes from at things in a different way. And when that is unconscious, when

Speaker 1 (3m 6s): If you do not

Speaker 0 (3m 12s): Make the conscious change, it seems as though the environment changes, the environment is constantly changing. And if you don't take a few moments to stop and look around as Ferris Bueller says, then you won't notice the change,

Speaker 1 (3m 29s): Right?

Speaker 0 (3m 35s): If you wanted to, you could fundamentally change the way you think about yourself and you would fundamentally change your life. Interesting to think about, right? I think so it gets me on this topic of language is right,

Speaker 1 (3m 52s): Right.

Speaker 0 (3m 55s): It's been growing in my mind for quite some time. I feel compelled. I feel almost obsessed with, and I feel like I'm on the cusp of finding something new about our language. I know that sounds egoistic,

Speaker 1 (4m 16s): Right?

Speaker 0 (4m 16s): Translating symbols into sounds, you know, in my last podcast, if you'd get a chance, go back and check it out is called a more perfect logos. And I was doing this thought experiment where I would say a word and I would, I would give the word that I set a color as it flowed from my mouth. And I based that a little bit on the tone in which I use so that the tone of my voice would match the word in my mind.

I believe there was a similar frequency that would match and that would help facilitate a more perfect correspondence and language. I got a great comment or multiple comments on my awesome YouTube channel and on the podcast and this gentlemen was saying, wow, wouldn't that be cool? That this was a game in which I could listen or I can watch your YouTube videos. And then I could see the colors of the words coming out of my mouth.

I thought, yes, that would be phenomenal. Alas, it's impossible. Or is it, how about the advent of Not virtual reality, but augmented reality, would it be possible clearly it would be possible. And in virtual reality for you to see the physical come out of my mouth with a corresponding color, whether it was written in code, I could code the words or code the tone to create the words coming out of my mouth to be a certain color than you.

Dear listener. If we were in a conversation in the world of virtual reality or potentially even augmented reality, I could listen to your flowery rhetoric and decorate the words coming out of your mouth with the words coming out of my mouth. And it seems to me that that would be more of a whole conversation. That would be a symphony of words of two people communicating, but communicating together is that kind of makes sense.

Imagine if I was to respond to what you had to say with perfect rebuttal that either decorated the words you had to say And would that not help us reach enlightenment faster?

Speaker 1 (7m 19s): Right.

Speaker 0 (7m 20s): I think at the core of my concept, I'm struggling with perceptions of words. In fact, are not ideas were ideas are words, it's all sounds or words. So I did a bit of research and I've found that different parts of the brain obviously receive information.

And two of the major parts, everybody knows this is Verna Cause area and Broca's area. However, you know, there is also a third area that is like the angular gyrus,

Speaker 1 (8m 10s): Right?

Speaker 0 (8m 10s): Which actually might be on top of Veronica, Veronica area there.

Speaker 1 (8m 18s): The reason I bring that up is

Speaker 0 (8m 21s): The spoken word, including you, when you say a word or other sounds,

Speaker 1 (8m 29s): Right?

Speaker 0 (8m 35s): According to the research that I did and that scenario, the spoken word, even your own, and other sounds goes directly to the angular, gyrus,

Speaker 1 (8m 52s): Other people's words or

Speaker 0 (8m 59s): A week, or when you recall of a list of words are processed and a slightly different area. Additionally images

Speaker 1 (9m 17s): Are processed

Speaker 0 (9m 22s): In the right hemisphere of the brain. According to the research I read, clearly I should be doing more research and I'm trying, non-verbal the, the images, your dress, your posture, your attitude, body position,

Speaker 1 (9m 38s): The

Speaker 0 (9m 38s): What is, I think this is a beautiful part right here. What is often referred to as the music of language, the tone infliction and the rhythm, all of these alter the meanings of the words we use.&...