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I too keep telling people to watch it. We are close to accidentally creating an attention-democracy where whoever is able to keep the attention of the masses h
by ganzuul 7y ago
I too keep telling people to watch it.
We are close to accidentally creating an attention-democracy where whoever is able to keep the attention of the masses has the most influence over politics. It could be argued that whoever is able to get the most attention is also the most in tune with what people want. Since centralized filtering of news is an important part of the political meta-game of building opinion, perhaps it is not wrong to formalize this process. Enter Max Headroom.
- Nasrudith 7y agoI don't think that this new and it arguably predates democracy. Being able to keep the attention of the masses influencing policy has generally been called 'leadership' - even if they are frankly idiots who lead them straight off cliffs. It is another one of those annoyingly conflated words like 'empathy' assuming that understanding people and caring about them are the same - leadership has connotations of actually being effective and getting others to follow.
- ganzuul 7y agoTrue. Follow-the-leader is easy and democracy isn't. Especially when idiots are all too willing to jump off cliffs instead of acting with the responsibility that democracy places upon us. Perhaps there exists forms of democracy which steer us away from the obvious precipice.