hence a lot of "politics" in this sense is an insane form of kabuki theater, getting very mad on the internet about things as radical praxis
it seems clear the public has instead gotten more fragmented, insular, and myopic via social media
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which makes sense, traditional media at its best curates a shared universe and gives marching orders, both things that are healthy for most people
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and a lot of media dysfunction now is them trying to compete in a space they no longer control
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They only had power in the past because of the high barriers to entering the market, which are now almost zero. Opinions are no longer top-down but memetic.
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What do you base that on? I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't know if we're seeing that because the filters are off, or that it's actually happening.
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I think that reality is mostly fake, for a long time media constructed a shared reality for people, this has in recent times become increasingly impossible to sustain
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as evidenced by the marked shift in political discourse from a shared notion of society but arguing over what to do with/for it, to arguing over what society is even supposed to be
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this is something I have been meaning to write on for a long time but it is a large project
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to properly explain the shift and what the former agreed upon society was supposed to mean I have to summarize ~1500 years of political history
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I go on a bit about the communications technology side of it in more detail here thohttps://jacobitemag.com/2017/12/05/a-priesthood-of-programmers/ …
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I've read that. It's very, very good.
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