It’s annoying how this keeps happening to ideas. It’d be cool if someone could trace the lineage of: new, accurate critique of the world -> critique’s general proliferation and linguistic adoption because of its truth -> low-tier orbiters using critique incorrectly as an insta-win argument online, losing its original meaning.
“Media illiteracy” is quickly becoming one of the three or so rotating concepts twitter uses to explain every phenomenon until it loses all meaning
Don’t agree with me? Didn’t know you were media illiterate
It’s annoying how this keeps happening to ideas. It’d be cool if someone could trace the lineage of: new, accurate critique of the world -> critique’s general proliferation and linguistic adoption because of its truth -> low-tier orbiters using critique incorrectly as an insta-win argument online, losing its original meaning.