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by foobar_
2163 days ago
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At some point politics got intertwined with social media. Until that point ... social media was a pleasant place. I'm pretty sure had email been still active ... you would get a ton of political mails as fwds as opposed to spam. The shit show that politics is ... is pathetic in all media irrespective of character length. Have you seen TV ? What excuses do they have, illiteracy ? The boomer crowd is dishonest. Heck anyone remember Ron Paul, who was a republican ? Maybe there should be an age limit of 40 in politics. Surprisingly in YouTube, in some debate talks you find civility. People seem to miss out one thing, no other generation has been that active in politics for about 40 years. So that's actually a good thing as opposed to the passive acceptance you see in the older crowd. What I think is sad is ... all this political energy going nowhere and except pointless shows of symbolism, which is fine in most cases but the lack of change is what makes the thing even worse. |
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Every medium is a social one if you think about it and every social medium is political.
The medium has and always will be the message and when you get to the core you understand the message is simply the audience.
Do you think "primitive" civilizations compared to ours didn't have social media before the advent of the tweet?
They were operating on levels we haven't even begun to understand in our foolish pride.
We're as primitive as we were at the invention of electric light and our technological advancements have outpaced our morality. We're just amplifying the hysteria and confusion with our automated algorithms and always-on engagement and now every poor schmuck has a voice where once it was limited to the elites. You should be grateful that Twitter has democratized the inane blatherings of the proletariat to drown out the voices of so called authority.