Traditionalism worked really well before communication networks became: 1. Widespread 2. Instantaneous 3. Two-way Tribal insights worked because your tribe wasn’t dead yet. Harder to maintain now when that social glue is subject to 24-hour criticism from out-group players.
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Gate keepers were revealed to be corrupt and agenda driven...
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Yep for sure
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There’s a “famous” book by Walter Lippmann called “Public Opinion” (1921?) where he muses about how information could be tightly-controlled by newspapers and other gatekeepers— we are reverting back to pre-mass comm. tribalism but also with an overlay of mass, centralized comm.
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The thing about the book that’s interesting is that, explicitly, the mass, monoculture of centralized communications through gatekeepers, non-distributed tech. is never assumed to be accurate to reality - so there’s a desire of making a virtue of objectivity.
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Check out the very obscure book "Everything was forever until it was no more." It's about the last generation in Soviet Russia. Where the leaders and followers delusionally believed in something they all knew was nonsense. I think social media+big data allows for that at scale.
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