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We've forgotten how to elevate issues above cable news fodder when necessary. But history will see this with absolute clarity. The present is trapped into fram
by gdulli 8y ago
We've forgotten how to elevate issues above cable news fodder when necessary. But history will see this with absolute clarity.
The present is trapped into framing everything as an issue with two sides, and maybe nuance gets lost. But the bigger problem is that the equilibrium is so established that the middle no longer accepts that one side could ever be very right or very wrong on a given issue.
History will not be limited as we are to seeing Rachel Maddow and Sean Hannity as equivalent outrage peddlers at opposite but equivalent ends of the horseshoe.
- glenra 8y ago> But history will see this with absolute clarity. Are you sure about that? It seems to me history is messy. Are you just asserting that one side will eventually win each ideological battle and get to rewrite the history books to exclude the opposite perspective and all nuance in-between? If so: what are we supposed to conclude from knowing this? If not, then what are you saying? What makes this story "cable news fodder" is that at this point it's still essentially an unproven allegation. So we have two options: (1) GUESS at answers regarding how true the allegations are and (if true) how widespread and significant the problem might be and who might be responsible for it, then run around screaming at each other at how bad OTHER PEOPLE are for not being concerned ENOUGH about the precise version of this problem that we have hallucinated in our heads, or... (2) Wait a bit until we know more about what the details ACTUALLY are and THEN consider making it a big news story and telling the world, if it still seems sufficiently serious at that time.