Literal centuries of human civilisation worldwide has trained us to view the act of writing things down and making them publicly accessible - making them into RECORDS - as proof that those words have Value. Likewise, the oral tradition of storytelling is echoed in YouTube videos.
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It is easier to destroy than create; we already knew that. So it only makes sense that tearing down our cultural trust in the very concepts of journalism, science, history, sociology - of REALITY - is so much easier than all the long centuries it took to build, fix, build again.
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We live in the Disinformation Age, and we have no roadmap for what to build in the ruins of the world we're in the cavalier process of destroying - because, like the Brexiteering UK government, too many responsible parties only want to have their fun NOW, not plan for later.
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I think we can fix things. I don't think we're past that point. But the process of getting there is so goddamn exhausting, so dispiriting. We're all slouching towards Bethlehem at this point. I only wish more people realised.
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