"I don’t know about you, but I’ve found the writings of conventional international relations experts to be not very helpful in understanding what this whole crisis is about." My god, my god, my god.https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1502082682292948999 …
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I was never a big fan of the pure "just listen to the science/experts" position because science is mediated by social practice & has to be implemented by institutions that are not themselves scientific. But now pendulum has swung to "ignore eggheads, what do they know?"
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Tony Judt! Hard not to feel the loss at a moment like this.https://twitter.com/pashulman/status/786568099642376196 …
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I think a large part of it is related to COVID
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a thousand times this. Maybe it's a rejection of traditional media and social media and so you end up with.... this is just kinda how I feel
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Here’s my theory: Fox et al deliberately spread covid misinformation. It ranged from vaccine denial to general science denial (that was the approach taken by
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Substack brain
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Covid pretty killed off pundit belief in expert opinion because they know better than anyone else when covid was over or whatever
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Pillpod in their Hyperreality episode (just released to the public, before it was paywalled) made a point how the explosion of images aka a Baudrillard situation means one turns to one’s gut and not our eyes for we can not agree on what we are seeing for there is so much we…
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are seeing, and it can be framed in ways that tug at our emotions. Thus more individual morality, more of our gut, instead of shared social understandings.
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