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> Technology does not solve political problems. Politics solves political problems. I don't think this is true, bluntly. Technology does not automatically sol
by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Technology does not solve political problems. Politics solves political problems.
I don't think this is true, bluntly.
Technology does not automatically solve political problems. But technology does sometimes render bad political actions unviable.
I would argue that a large part of the widespead acceptance of homosexuality in Western society was due to the deconstruction of singular media gatekeepers by the move of discourse from newspapers to the internet.
That is absolutely technology solving a political problem.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> technology does sometimes render bad political actions unviable Put another way, technology allows groups to organize who otherwise wouldn't have been able to. In Bitcoin's case, it's largely libertarians.
- rendaw 5y agoAnd there's also plenty of political problems politics have failed to solve. Like getting rid of Confederate statues (they're not being put back up), which were eventually removed via vandalism.
- alienthrowaway 5y ago> I would argue that a large part of the widespead acceptance of homosexuality in Western society was due to the deconstruction of singular media gatekeepers And yet folk from my (mostly homophobic) part of the third world argue the opposite: that homosexuality is widely accepted in the west because it was promoted by media and entertainment gatekeepers. I disagree with them (and with you) - I think sexual liberation was an idea whose time had come; and the progress can be plotted to the 60s and beyond (maybe even as far back as WWII, when women were economically empowered); preceding even ARPANET.