@jeffjarvis I would counter that social science research is necessary and insufficient, and that most of the research has already been completed, but that progressives tend to disregard it: particularly when its conclusions imply that we (those supporting equity and facts and all that the fascists hate) and are among those who conduct must change if the regression towards fascism is to be stopped without war.
We accept the consensus of scientific evidence, so long as it indicates someone Other must do differently. For example, and to your point about belonging: the evidence is conclusive that belonging and such emotional needs beget belief, yet we shame, and scold, and ostracize, and categorically disparage certain involuntary identity groups, faulting each individual therein for the misconduct of other members (including events preceding their birth), blaming individuals for social structures they cannot begin to alter without us, and dismissing their suffering and trauma because they’re not the same as ours.
And then, by way of dismissing them, rather than empathizing, we tell them, “do the work,” in condescending exasperation, by which we mean “read these three dozen books, each requiring collegiate literacy to comprehend,” while disregarding that their norm is fifth-grade literacy, that access to upgrading classes are a class privilege, that post-secondary education is a class privilege, that recreational reading time is a class privilege, and that expecting anyone to believe you or do as you say after you just finished telling them off is absurd.
@jeffjarvis I appreciate the article, but in my experience the really thwacko ideas are always coming from "social" (really algorithmic) media. What people pick up person-to-person is always more nuanced; I see people push the crazy stuff they've been convinced of online, but in-person it just makes others look at them funny.
My own son has become a recluse because he believes a huge pile of internet nonsense and none of his friends put up with it - even other conspiracy theorists!
Hanna Arendt:
"loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.”
true
Also true, the decision to not want to belong (anymore) is self empowering. Doesn't solve the fundamental problem but frees your mind (or being) of some of the suffering.
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> "reporting information and checking facts! But we need to concede that these are insufficient ends."
That's just the beginning, the start to become even able to talk and report about something. At this day and age, wikipedia examplifies the "fact book" idea.
#journalism is putting fact into context.
And it's the duty of educated readers to interpretate that point of view of context, constructed by the reporter, into his own context, and best case, think out of his very own box.
>"“The clustering of like-minded American is tearing us apart.” The #internet doesn’t cause #filterBubbles, it punctures them, confronting people with those they are told to fear. The internet does not cause division. It exposes it."
It does not cause it but provokes the widening of the rupture on purpose and the sake of profit.
It's #laGrieta, the rift, the crack.
It's not "the internet" but commercial #VC driven #socialMedia.
It's disturbance of the public peace for profit.
> "By this, I mean that white folks’ communications, letters, and works of art are rarely understood as white; instead, they become universal and are understood as ‘communication,’ ‘literature,’ and ‘art.’”
And the day will come when US-citizens will realize that "their" communication, literature, and art in the internet is not universal but their only privileged talking points and behavior they tried to push down the throat onto all the others by their very own biased algorithms.
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> Lenoir and Anderson in Paris:
Technical solutions to political problems are bound to fail.
Perhaps this a top down problem observation?
The same as journalism as a means of listening versus educating?
> We could reject the economics of attention and scale of mass media
.. and mass #socialMedia?
Isn't the #fediVerse a tecnical approach, a technical solution to try to achieve some of the some how political problems we are facing?
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