Sir Kazuo Ishiguro warns of young authors self-censoring out of 'fear'

Post by sudosysgen » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

toomim wrote: post #213

RobLach wrote: post #114

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Hardly so. There's ample evidence that the current is the greatest opportunity for dissenting thought and opinion to have massive reach without much consequence or effort. The idea that we're in a dark age of thought is purely rhetorical and only serves to frame a narrative that further amplifies ideas that would never had a chance to propagate before the information era. Furthermore, we are living in a time of such…

This is very well-put! But how do you reconcile this with people losing or being suspended from their jobs, for instance, for what they say? [1] [2] It's hard to say that these people don't have the conviction to stand by their ideas. They are losing the right to speak in front of others because they are standing by their ideas. [1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus... [2] https://www.bscho…

Post by dragonwriter » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:47 PM UTC

sudosysgen wrote: post #268

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"Dark age of thought" would be excessive (and is maybe a straw man). But there's plenty of people being cancelled: https://www.afaf.org.uk/the-banned-list/ https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/who-cancel/

There have been people getting cancelled in very large number for thousands of years. Crucially, nowadays, you can still communicate when cancelled. Perhaps to a smaller audience, but this is a necessity because of how human social interactions work.

Post by inglor_cz » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

throwaway5752 wrote: post #44

bitcharmer wrote: post #5

It's really sad that in the age of unrestricted access to information public discourse is self-restricting to avoid wrong-think and dissenting opinions. If you look at the history of intellectual progress, much of it was exactly due to unpopular opinions. Now by having one you're risking your entire career and sometimes more. This is truly the dark age of the information era.

Here's a counterpoint: in the last 150 years we've seen the enslavement and legally mandated racial segregation of African-Americans, same-sex marriages illegal until recently, enormous and largely forgot historical support of Hitler and Franco, a mass shooting of a synagogue amid a resurgence in neonazism, and are only celebrating 100 years of womens' right to vote. It's hard, from the outside of the bubble of this…

Post by skrebbel » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

sudosysgen wrote: post #268

dash2 wrote: post #203

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"Dark age of thought" would be excessive (and is maybe a straw man). But there's plenty of people being cancelled: https://www.afaf.org.uk/the-banned-list/ https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/who-cancel/

There have been people getting cancelled in very large number for thousands of years. Crucially, nowadays, you can still communicate when cancelled. Perhaps to a smaller audience, but this is a necessity because of how human social interactions work.

Post by solosoyokaze » Mon, Mar 01, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

sudosysgen wrote: post #274

solosoyokaze wrote: post #252

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No they don't. They get canceled by neo-liberals.

Insert joke along the lines of "every leftist is just a radlib except me"