There seems to be a consensus now that the exposure to ideas, arguments and memes on youtube, facebook, google search and twitter must be carefully manipulated to make sure people don't elect the wrong politician or have the wrong idea about gay marriage. But why stop there?
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It appears to me that ideology is an ugly deformation of a human capacity. The present social media control does not aim at innoculating against bad epistemology, but at enforcing more consistent indoctrination. Perhaps that is the better way, but I still have some hope
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Aye. Ideology exploits our capacity for abstraction, obscuring and replacing reality with some simplified notion of a utopia lost.
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Yeah, the cruel path dependency of having to start with our actual initial conditions makes finding a different, better hill to climb a fantasy.
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If the current system is not sustainable, the question of fixing it may become moot, and our focus should be on the construction of a Phoenix that can rise out of the ashes. I just hope that it is mostly societal software that will burn, instead of most people and infrastructure.
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