7 June

Ask anybody how our democracies work and they’ll trot out the usual guff about parliaments and elections and voting etc. Since the 1990s all of that is gone. Social media algorithms govern our societies. Humans are social animals, not political, how they interact socially *is* society. Those algorithms are designed to drive people into rival teams, on every public and private issue. Teams held together by imitation (social conformity), who then fight other teams for status i.e. position in society. Look around, you’ll see it everywhere. Bathurst for example has been slave to a couple of social media influencers for several years now, who call their own social media team the ‘Bathurst community’. Bathurst like all other towns is now just competing social media teams.