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The internet has allowed politics to turn into a team sport. When the concern is only about the team, faults are easily glossed over. Changing it into a game,
by Clent 4y ago
The internet has allowed politics to turn into a team sport.
When the concern is only about the team, faults are easily glossed over.
Changing it into a game, allows game theory to take over people's minds and suddenly there is no behavior too outrageous because the belief becomes that the other guys would have done it if they had thought of it first.
Then very quickly the politicians that hold themselves accountable have been replaced with those who do not and a new norm is formed.
- mschuster91 4y agoThat shit began way before the Internet. The 2nd Iraq war was just the same in European public discourse, thankfully Schröder chose to rather annoy the US than drag us in this clusterfuck.
- mindslight 4y agoSpeaking of the 2nd Iraq War, I've got to wonder how differently current events would be playing out had the US not invaded Iraq in 2003. Doing so burnt so much of the US's credibility, both foreign and domestic. For the last twenty years, my own view has basically been "having a military so large is a liability if it will just be taken advantage of by special interests to do terrible things". The world was basically peaceful, at least on the large scale. Now with Putin's genocidal conquest, I've been forced to resign myself to the idea that the overly hegemonic military is apparently necessary, and having it led by a government that at least acknowledges some productive higher values is not to be taken for granted. But that's a quick pivot, and not how politics works at all.
- Clent 4y agoI didn't say social media. I said internet. The internet predates both Iraq wars.