i wonder if there have been times and places where intuitions were trusted and relied upon more than today (inb4 it's an overgeneralization)
ancient Greece? bicameral mind?
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Specific cities and eras, certainly, by all available historical evidence.
It's more, I think, about competitive pressures. Ideological buy-in seems to be fairly fundamental to how the modern (super)state structures itself.
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I suspect part of the collapse of state power which seems to be rapidly unfolding in front of us has to do with narrative disintegration.
The media have been too decentralized, but are also superseded by computers, or more formally, machines.
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Not that any of this is remotely original thought on my part, but, that's how it seem.
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The disturbing part, though, is that it seems like people are now under *more* pressure to obey, mistrust themselves, engage in learned helplessness.
"Computer says no," increasingly becoming word of god, rather than an indication of failure on the part of the state/corporation.
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ahh that's why i have such a resistance and aversion to algorithms trying to dictate my choices at every step
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People asking about their luggage, about connecting flights, about a million other consequential issues.
"Not my problem, call the airline."
Airline customer service lines are closed.
App isn't letting people cancel or change their flights. Have to go through customer service.
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She ended up having to book her entire itinerary over again for the next day, because there was not a single point of human contact available and no way to verify that she'd be able to get the correct flights from Oslo, as she had to do one more connecting flight once in the US.
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Obv. airlines have taken cov as an opportunity to fire staff, beg for bailout money and pay out bonuses to execs while permantently downgrading service, but this hardly seems unique to that industry.
More and more normal that people can only interact with computers.
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And whatever you do, computer predictably says no (which is obviously by design).