Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture
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#3No country is willingly importing this divisive rhetoric. Aspirational young citizens who repeat the same formula within their home countries and are quickly rewarded with status and power. So the scourge continues.
Short-term, this toxic, zero-sum behaviour reaps havoc. Long-term, American culture capital will have been exhausted and the US will have signed its own death warrant.
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#4No country is willingly importing this divisive rhetoric. Aspirational young citizens who repeat the same formula within their home countries and are quickly rewarded with status and power. So the scourge continues. Short-term, this toxic, zero-sum behaviour reaps havoc. Long-term, American culture capital will have been exhausted and the US will have signed its own death warrant.
Oh, they are definitely willingly importing it.
If there is ABC movement from a powerful country, then those in the external country will want to use that to further their agenda to the degree that it is aligned with their own.
The CIA used to (and still does) try to push some kinds of narratives aboard, most prominently in the 'flower' revolutions in E. Europe, but much of the pop culture one's just happen 'organically'.
Particularly in the Anglosphere.
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#5This is a serious threat to other countries’ sovereignty but because it is happening in a decentralized, slow-moving manner, it is hard to recognize it as such. The power of US media and culture is overwhelming and if not managed, can drown out other worldviews. In the cases I’ve observed (in countries I’ve traveled to / lived in), it feels a lot like a sort of cultural colonialism (or perhaps cultural genocide), which is leading to a global homogeneity I find both boring and threatening at the same time. It’s especially dangerous because the values and political perspectives of Silicon Valley are used to shape information that other societies receive when social media companies decide to limit or amplify certain ideas. If any other nation did this to the US, we would be complaining loudly about foreign propaganda and influence.
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#6This is a serious threat to other countries’ sovereignty but because it is happening in a decentralized, slow-moving manner, it is hard to recognize it as such. The power of US media and culture is overwhelming and if not managed, can drown out other worldviews. In the cases I’ve observed (in countries I’ve traveled to / lived in), it feels a lot like a sort of cultural colonialism (or perhaps cultural genocide), whi…
I generally agree with that culture is getting generalized, but I despise the trend of diluting terms to associate them with your enemies. Using colonialism and genocide just to exaggerate their badness is just like how "nazi" has gotten diluted to mean "right".
Re: Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture
#7No country is willingly importing this divisive rhetoric. Aspirational young citizens who repeat the same formula within their home countries and are quickly rewarded with status and power. So the scourge continues. Short-term, this toxic, zero-sum behaviour reaps havoc. Long-term, American culture capital will have been exhausted and the US will have signed its own death warrant.
Oh, they are definitely willingly importing it. If there is ABC movement from a powerful country, then those in the external country will want to use that to further their agenda to the degree that it is aligned with their own. The CIA used to (and still does) try to push some kinds of narratives aboard, most prominently in the 'flower' revolutions in E. Europe, but much of the pop culture one's just happen 'organica…
Maybe.
In Australia the anti lockdown / anti Vax stuff got shut down quite quickly.
Same goes for the BLM protests that tried it on without the right permits.
Kind of glad I don't have to put up with the same crap here or the media trying to call it peaceful.
I think it has a lot to do with the multi party system.
I don't have to align myself with one party or the other party, and all its polarising crap along with it. If one party has too much polarising rhetoric I can just pick a more moderate party.
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#8and ecological collapse, it's funny because abraham just got done with like 15 years or more of raping himself. makes sense his children would just follow in their leaders footsteps. there's nothing else they can do
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#9Racial essentialism is toxic. America and the Western Liberal ideology (which I cherish) will only survive if we ruthlessly destroy it and similar critical theories which derive from it. Otherwise we will quickly perish into a ward state, at best.
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#10Europe has long had bellicose politics, they didn't need the U.S. for that.