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Maybe the abnormal thing was the century or so we had of papers/radio/TV guided by ethics or professionalism or some delicate trustworthiness-equilibrium. And
by wyldfire 1y ago
Maybe the abnormal thing was the
century or so we had of papers/radio/TV guided by ethics or professionalism or some delicate trustworthiness-equilibrium.
And now we have returned to a state where humanity is guided by inventive stories and manipulated by propaganda.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoThis implies that the period with massively more centralized control of information had a truer consensus reality. That seems… unlikely?
- neltnerb 1y agoAt least they mostly felt the need to pick a single consensus reality to approximate. How well it represented common experience, well...
- beezlewax 1y agoIt was better than the illusion of freedom of information a lot of people have now. In reality mass manipulation is happening on a global scale at unprecedented levels.
- maxerickson 1y agoIt wasn't that centralized (many many independent newspapers and such). And then "information" is doing a lot of work when you start talking about social media.
- oblio 1y agoYou know what the weirdest thing about that century is? The Soviets. A sort of seemingly valid communal society seemed possible so all the other capitalism based ones had competition and as a result were trying to improve the life of citizens. I'm starting to become more and more convinced that as real fear of Communism disappeared at the top, our systems are regressing to the mean.