14 July

You can see in what happened here how modern politics works. Turn everything into a ‘fight’. When Trump say he’s fighting, he means his own people, in the US. But on the other ‘team’. Which some call the ‘Far Left’. But he makes up new enemies all the time, it’s how the politics of fights works. We’ve seen the same method used for immigrants, nuclear power, EVs, renewable energy, climate change, etc. Set up a fight, lots of fights. That creates teams, and energises them. Like turning all of our social life into the NRL. Social media is what enables this. Those battling teams create lots of clicks and likes, and therefore lots of revenue for platform shareholders. So the algorithms create and magnify this process. We hear all the guff about society now being more ‘divided’ and more ‘polarised’. Of course it is, when that’s your political business model, and the business model of the platforms we now more or less live on.