Why the Past 10 Years of American #Life Have Been Uniquely #Stupid
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
#Babel is not a #story about tribalism. It’s a story about the #fragmentation of everything.
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The #digital #revolution has shattered that mirror, and now the public inhabits those broken pieces of glass. So the public isn’t one thing; it’s highly fragmented, and it’s basically mutually hostile. It’s mostly people yelling at each other and living in bubbles of one sort or another.
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“Those who express sympathy for the views of opposing groups may experience backlash from their own cohort.” In other words, political #extremists don’t just shoot darts at their enemies; they spend a lot of their ammunition targeting dissenters or nuanced thinkers on their own team. In this way, #social #media makes a political #system based on #compromise grind to a halt.
#politics #society #problem #filterbubble #extremism #altRight #internet #journalism #press #future #discussion #ethics #moral #democracy
