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This is a lazy justification with little substance that applies just as much to the users and content and voting structure of this forum. The alternative is not
by monadic2 6y ago
This is a lazy justification with little substance that applies just as much to the users and content and voting structure of this forum. The alternative is not talking to anyone or not choosing who we talk to.
- loopz 6y agoIs it though. How many people are preoccupied with concerns outside their own tribe, and are prepared to throw away 99% of ideas in order to refine and filter the remaining 1%, multiple times? Ie. do impactful work with meaning, without directly benefiting themselves?
- monadic2 6y agoDo you have an example? I can’t make a head or tail of what you’re saying. It sounds like you have an extremely specific metaphysical process you have in mind.
- loopz 6y agoI was answering to your last line: "Just a few years ago you could find plenty of opinion articles talking about the necessity of “the marketplace of ideas” for political discourse. None of that now...." We've seen how accellerated communications create "social" bubbles and outrage, while we know true policy-making will require much more refinement of ideas through representatives that are eager to think beyond their tribe and tend to the greater good. The opposite is happening in later populist movements, and we instead witness corruption at the highest position exploiting outrage and dissent.