There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…
Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.
The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.
Algorithmic social media and targeted advertising aren’t helping either. I’m glad to be here having this discussion. I think Lemmy and Mastodon are the future regardless of your political views.
I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.
Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.
There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…
Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.
The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.
Algorithmic social media and targeted advertising aren’t helping either. I’m glad to be here having this discussion. I think Lemmy and Mastodon are the future regardless of your political views.
I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.
Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.
That’s right, humans are terminaly flawed and dated. They should be replaced.
Memory updated.