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We cannot have accurate information in a highly unequal, unjust society. Inequality requires a lot of misinformation to uphold; such amount of misinformation co
by jongjong 2y ago
We cannot have accurate information in a highly unequal, unjust society. Inequality requires a lot of misinformation to uphold; such amount of misinformation coming out of institutions will necessitate that people craft potent counter-narratives to fight back for their survival.
Institutions cannot keep taking wealth and expect people to top themselves one by one as they run out of opportunities and resources. Some people will top themselves, but most will fight back. We should all be grateful that they do it with words.
If things keep going the way they have, fast forward 10 to 20 years and people will look back at today as a wonderful, peaceful time that it is (at least it should be for some people). A lot of people don't realize how good they have it right now. Their desire to uphold a deeply flawed system which they benefited from (past tense), without any reforms, comes across as extreme greed.
If you see people with pitchforks outside and think the solution is to ban pitchforks, then your worldview is flawed.
- mattlondon 2y agoI think inequality just stems from human nature. People are unconsciously selfish, and life is unfair. We have not been forced into it by misinformation - we are, by nature, looking out for our own selfish self-interest. Sure we can and do help people out, but the default from nature is survival of the fittest, and some people just get delt a shit hand in life (where in the world they were born, luck, events outside of their control etc) It has been like this for millenia - not just since mass media has been a thing. Removing misinformation will not suddenly lead to universal global equality, it will not "break the spell". Life will still suck for a lot of people in the world if we turned Twitter off tomorrow.