The culture war is killing us [video]

Agreed. It's really easy to say "stop hating each other" when you refuse to point the finger at the media companies which have stoked the flames of division.

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Post by ASpaceCowboi » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

Saagar spitting some solid facts

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Post by readonthegoapp » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:40 AM UTC

petermcneeley wrote: post #2

Shallow boring and simplified. Not worth your time.

The Hill, like the Observer, used to be a great actual newspaper.

The reporting in there was just phenomenal.

And then presumably some conservative billionaire took it over and turned it into fox news light.

Jared Kushner did the Observer takeover and turned it from something very weird and entertaining and serious and very New York into a directionless soup of trivialities.

I used to buy and actually read the physical weird-somewhat-grapefruit-pink-colored newspaper on my way to/from my office near wall street.

Sometimes things 'back in the day' really were a lot better.

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Post by salimmadjd » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

Have many of us have become the useful idiots of the corporate media overloads?

I know it's fashionable to blame Facebook for the divisiveness, but I'm old enough to recall Obama's 2004 DNC speech that got him his first national attention. Before there was Facebook, Obama was talking about divisiveness.

I firmly believe anger and anxiety is constantly injected into the mainstream corporate media to increase eyeballs and stickiness. One of the side effects of this content strategy is the divisiveness we see now.

Yes, Facebook (or twitter) amplifies these, but that's because Facebook provides every one of us a platform to exhale the frustrations we accumulate consuming these anger-laden content.

Ingeniously, the corporate media blamed all these on Facebook and whoever is/was advising Zuck really failed to come up with a solid strategy to counter this narrative beyond rebranding FB app icon and some color scheme changes.

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Post by GingerMidas » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

A FPTP two party system almost necessitates culture war, since by definition if you're for one party you're against the other.

At the end of the day you're forced to pick a side. The anchors are suggesting you ignore that eventuality.

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Post by bananabiscuit » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:48 AM UTC

petermcneeley wrote: post #2

Shallow boring and simplified. Not worth your time.

Simplified might not be a bad thing considering this video was the sanest take on politics I’ve seen recently compared to what you get on CNN and FOX.

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Post by clcaev » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 1:50 AM UTC

I believe the cultural wars focus the population's attention on issues that divide us, rather than issues that would unite: concentration of power, gutting of main street, etc.

The detachment of our news and media from local civics denies our population practice working together, with real problems, with real consensus. Instead the polarization is on more abstract, national, and intractable concerns -- political sport with little hope of amicable resolution.

As technologists, how can we work to rebuild regional and local political and economic sovereignty? Sustainable power comes from the bottom up, not the top down.