Under glasnost, the official media narrative of the USSR collapsed. People realised they’d been lied to all their lives. The problem was no one knew what the truth was. Conspiracy theories and wild ideas flourished. This has now happened in the West w/ social media.
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The rise of wild conspiracy theories, memes, and so on exactly mimics the glasnost-era disorientation of people in the USSR. People were suddenly allowed to say, “But that’s not how it really is. The cement factory doesn’t work like Pravda says.”
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The difference is that people in the West could always say (more or less), but they didn’t have the means to get their view out. Social media has broken this. We will never go back to a stable narrative. This is why everyone feels dislocated. It will destroy trust in society.
1:22 AM - 10 Jun 2018
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