it's highly likely the current crop of governance creatures lack either/both the will to carry out sweeping reform or the competence to execute well and create something healthier
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if they did, though, the public would likely confound efforts, stirred up be the media, which thrives on stirring people up with what a Big Deal everything is
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it's worth considering how much effect stirring will have as the public has more access to longer term news and media that dismantles political narratives.
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>more access to longer term news and media that dismantles political narratives sure maybe, but access is not utilization
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it seems clear the public has instead gotten more fragmented, insular, and myopic via social media
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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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