The idea we live in nation States is now quaint. Social media has rapidly assumed dominance as the place…
The idea we live in nation States is now quaint. Social media has rapidly assumed dominance as the place where we transact every aspect of human life, from the most personal, to the professional and political.
Just think of the implications of that.
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The medium is the message. The quality of information on social media isn’t the problem. Societies don’t run on information.
Societies are cultures. Social mechanisms. We’ve substituted multi-dimensional cultural spaces developed over millennia, with these platforms.
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And these platforms are owned by a handful of immature idiot billionaires. We’ve handed over our entire societies, to these gold-plated adolescents.
You may think this overstates what’s going on. I encourage you to open your eyes.
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Find any aspect of our lives now that isn’t being shifted onto social media as the dominant venue for their operation.
The President of the US is the Twitter/Truth Social President.
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The medium is the message. What gets said here is almost unimportant, it’s the substitution of those vastly complex, multi-dimensional cultural and social mechanisms with these mono-dimensional rage-revenue machines that is the story.
McLuhan felt the same frustration.
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People blinded by ‘content’. Ignorant of the way that the medium of social exchange itself is what creates societies and the personalities that live in them.
We are zombies to these platforms. Reality and expertise now replaced by what’s ‘trending’. Reality as fashion.
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If it trends, it’s real. If it doesn’t, it literally ceases to exist. Covid trended for a while, now it doesn’t so nothing - NOTHING - is being done.
The trend is to exterminate it from collective memory entirely. Same as climate change.
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Only institutions staffed by genuine expertise, focused on intergenerational timelines, can resist a society of trends.
The very things our social media ‘leaders’ attack with their greatest venom. They know their true enemy.
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