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Not really hyper-politics, virtually hyper-politics. Practically, IRL, people are not acting politically very much. Not more than 15 years ago around me at lea
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Not really hyper-politics, virtually hyper-politics.
Practically, IRL, people are not acting politically very much. Not more than 15 years ago around me at least. And certainly not the ones that are screaming on the internet.
Anecdotally, those who are politically active in my circle (choosing what they buy, protesting, helping a category of living beings, writing to politicians) are actually not active on social media. They don't have time or energy for that, so they prioritize. If you don't know them, you don't know about what they do.
So there is a lot of political outrage, virtue signaling, pavlov reacting and tribalism.
But I don't think in reality people are hyper politics. They talk a lot of about the fashionable rant du jour, but have no dept, and it's not followed by actions.
The article is mentioning that medias are becoming hyper politics, and on that I can agree. Social medias, but even sites for fun like imgur.
And the corporation world as well, because a temporary outrage can make people superficially act against them for a limited amount of time, which will impact trust. In an economy where value is decorelated from what you really do, an ephemeral spike can tank you. But on the long run, those same people will forget about everything quickly, and revert back to their old patterns. They are not politically commited, they are just being even more manipulated than before.
- spaniard89277 5y agoYou are right, but people can step into problems because if their political beliefs in their jobs. Or suddenly being passively forced into behaviours if they don't want to lose your job. I guess this is the case in the US for republicans, for what I read and the personal accounts I get. Some people are trying hard to get this into Spain too, with less success.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoThis has always been the case. If you tried to serve a black customer in many places in the MLK era, it would have been trouble for your job. In France, the big blue collar companies have on constant display political messages from the various left leaning CGT and Lutte Ouvrière. You may very well be pressured to join. I my clients companies at least, I don't see the trend going up or down. It's pretty much as political as it used to be.
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- rmbyrro 5y agoThis is all true, but what some fail to see is that a good portion of everyone's lives now happen in the "virtual", not the "real" world. You may not see "virtual" actions as "real actions", but they can have dire consequences to the virtual part of someone's life. Trend is the virtual part of life will be more and more relevant from now on. I'd argue "virtual" political action is as relevant - or maybe even more, to some - as real political action.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoIndeed. I guess my point is more that political used to imply some stakes from the person involved. Because if you believe in something without having some skin in the game, you don't really believe in it. Now a day, outrage on the internet cost nothing to the trolls and raging people. In fact, it's pleasant to them. So I have a hard time considering that political. But maybe I should just be more flexible.