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Only if your knowledge of the US is restricted to the media’s framing

• cheschire 6y ago
  That's just as reductive as saying the whole thing is degenerating. Plenty of places in the U.S. are moving backwards. A lot of population centers are not though, so it's not fair to say that all of the U.S. is degenerative, but it's also not as fair to say it's only the media's framing.
  • mensetmanusman 6y ago
    It’s true the media only focuses on long-tail events to generate revenue. Studies have shown people who consume more media like this are actually less informed about reality, because their mindset starts veering from groking ‘the norm’ of the situation.
  • CyberRabbi 6y ago
    It’s solely the media’s framing if the claim is that the US as a whole is degenerating, which was his claim. I never made any claim as to the nuanced state of the US, so you’re responding to a claim I never made which is a strawman.