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This implies that the period with massively more centralized control of information had a truer consensus reality. That seems… unlikely?
by pfannkuchen 1y ago
This 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.