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But will they listen?
We cannot unmake the internet without damaging our polities. We can make the internet giants more responsible in terms of oversight, taxation, and compliance.
Of course the far-right used social media to forward it’s agenda. And of course they got the drop on the rest of us, much like Uncle Vlad did. However, such right-wing thinking has become normalised in society. I expect the detention centres will get a few more rolls of barbed wire and some nice new machine guns.
Not racist, just ethnopluralist.
It’s a new world, evidently; or maybe a retconned, rebooted, rebadged and rebranded one. It’s the same stuff beneath the packaging though.
But will they listen?
We cannot unmake the internet without damaging our polities. We can make the internet giants more responsible in terms of oversight, taxation, and compliance.
Of course the far-right used social media to forward it’s agenda. And of course they got the drop on the rest of us, much like Uncle Vlad did. However, such right-wing thinking has become normalised in society. I expect the detention centres will get a few more rolls of barbed wire and some nice new machine guns.
Not racist, just ethnopluralist.
It’s a new world, evidently; or maybe a retconned, rebooted, rebadged and rebranded one. It’s the same stuff beneath the packaging though.
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Date: 2019-07-10 05:03 am (UTC)I did do that once at a comedy show. :)
It was one of those events where the comedian was interacting with the audience, quite extensively, and integrating a random call from the peanut gallery into their act was part of what they did.
Anyway, he went on a long rant with increasing speed, building up to a punch line, and I recognized what it was going to be, so right at the appropriate moment I yelled it out. The comedian looked a little gob-smacked, but it generated the requisite laughs from others present and, to his credit, he continued on in stride.
> the appeal of neo-fascism; some folk find it a beautiful madness
It's particularly insane when you stop for a moment and ask "given the changes in travel and movement of population in the last one hundred years, what do you think will happen in the next hundred years?"
Do they seriously think that people will be doing less travel and there will be less cultural integration, or more?
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Date: 2019-07-10 06:37 am (UTC)Travel is one of those things that I think will have to diminish. That's just because climate change stuff is changing the patterns of our behaviour. But I think the internet means that there will be a greater spread of polarised cultures as this sort of internet divisiveness infects a lot of our thinking. As a species, we don't need to travel and migrate much more to have increased the genetic diversity of our local populations by a significant amount. (This is good for the survival of the species as a general principle; but unless we get off-planet it ain't going to matter much.) So I wonder if there are large-number population evolutionary reasons for such forms of "ethnopluralist" thinking.
There has to be an ætiology of the insanity. I can't help but speculate wildly, because some of these folk aren't consciously evil, merely astonishingly wrong.