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Everyone is ideologically google- or twitter-deep today. Back in the day, people actually read Road to Serfdom or A People’s History and picked an ideology. Co
by hindsightbias 4y ago
Everyone is ideologically google- or twitter-deep today.
Back in the day, people actually read Road to Serfdom or A People’s History and picked an ideology. College libertarians were middle or upper-class economic conservatives who were athiests, trekkies, gay or wanted to smoke weed. Now that that’s all fashionable and they’re not at risk of getting beat up or jailed they don’t have anything to get riled about except Corporate 1st Amendment reimaginings, digital privacy or why one of “those” people kept them from their slot at Stanford.
- zozbot234 4y ago> Everyone is ideologically google- or twitter-deep today. Yes, this handily explains how populist figures like Trump, AOC or MTG have managed to become so popular as of late. Twitter is a place where the most outrage-inducing and simplistic soundbites get all the attention. Subtlety and nuance are dead in that medium.