Polly TickalSep 25, 2019
nindokag

Greta Thunberg is cool, but she shouldn't be the story. The story should be about how our house is burning down. But the news media is addicted to stories with identifiable heroes and/or villains.

It's exactly like in 2013 how the story should have been the fact that the government was spying on us, but the media insisted on making Edward Snowden the story.

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Show threadBert.Sep 26, 2019
@nindokag Yes, and as I understand it, the news media is addicted specifically to clicks. Roosevelt's People<Events<Ideas hierarchy would predict that People stories make the best clickbait. Re-orienting the news media towards Ideas would require a new monetization scheme.
Show threadBert.Sep 26, 2019
@nindokag Or like, taking the money proxy out of the value equation. But we don't seem to know how to do that.
Show threadY.K. GoonSep 26, 2019

@Bert @nindokag this person orientation seems to be a tendency not even idea-people can escape.

Stoicism for instance gets reduced to three representing persons. Confucianism and daoism has two each, and so forth.

Or when a philosophy/approach has no word, it gets coined as <person-name>ism.

Show threadThe Armchair of DoomSep 26, 2019
@nindokag I think it's backfiring spectacularly. Attacking a person is much easier than attacking an idea. I see a lot more jokes and hostility coming from it, with the support coming from the same people as before, at the same level of commitment.