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I think she's correct to compare our situation now to a primitive band of people. Marshall McLuhan famously called this the global village. Close communication
by roceasta 9y ago
I think she's correct to compare our situation now to a primitive band of people. Marshall McLuhan famously called this the global village. Close communication is paradoxically causing the fragmentation and balkanisation of the internet. A process which nations like China (with its own internet) and companies like Google (by getting into politics) are accelerating.
The goal of political correctness, adopting Daniel Dennett's intentional stance, is to control thinking. Individuals who are able to resist are in some ways more isolated now than the old communist dissidents. They at least got moral support from each other in prison.
http://www.beyondeasy.net/2015/09/mcluhan-new-tribalism-equivalence-of.html http://www.beyondeasy.net/2015/09/mcluhan-new-tribalism-equi...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/intentional-stance https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/intentional-stance
- skybrian 9y agoI don't know what you mean? The Internet makes it easier than ever to find people who think the same way you do.
- roceasta 9y agoIt has been easier. However if present trends continue and new forms of 'badthink' emerge it may be necessary to start looking under stones in dark places. This (a) is hard to do, and (b) presupposes that you know others are out there. Which you may not, especially if you are young.
- jacalata 9y agoSo it's not that they are more isolated, just that hypothetically in a possible future they could be.
- mantas 9y agoYes. And then to stick to echo chamber with those people. So, fragmentation and balkanisation.
- busterarm 9y agoWhich internet? The one we made or grew up with, or the one with ~4 gatekeepers that can very effectively keep you from participating in the vast majority of it for posting views they disagree with?