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For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect The Economist is basically t
by remarkEon 8y ago
For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
The Economist is basically that happens when you stick your finger in the air and want to write down what the "consensus" opinion is. It's neither insightful, nor surprising. In a way, it is the most boring magazine there is.
- FiveSquared 8y agoAnd news is supposed to be boring, if boring is true (which is most cases).
- nindalf 8y agoWow, what sort of person dismisses an opinion just for being the “consensus” and appreciates an opinion for being “surprising” rather than correct.
- remarkEon 8y agoWhat sort of person assumes the “consensus” opinion is correct?
- nindalf 8y agoDid I say it was? Could you point out where I did? I merely said that it it is wrong to _dismiss_ it for that reason. Whether it is the consensus or not has no bearing on how correct it is. The person I was replying to obviously felt differently.
- jpatokal 8y agoThe Economist has been consistent i advocating in for (among other things) legalizing drugs, same-sex marriage, more public transport, carbon trading, nuclear energy, less regulation, freer immigration and many other things that were not and are not the "consensus opinion".
- agsdfgsd 8y agoThose have been the consensus opinion of the media the entire time the economist has been promoting them. The media exists to convey a false sense of consensus in order to cause people to go with the imaginary herd.
- remarkEon 8y agoWhat? Advocating these things is the very definition of the neoliberal consensus view - for which this magazine explicitly advocates. With the exception of same-sex marriage (maybe ... this was a liberal policy goal for a long time), all of that is the boilerplate position of any pol from that camp.