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Gamergate and the politicization of absolutely everything

 
 
 
"Stand Your Political Ground" laws are our only hope.
 
Surely the solution is to disown tribes entirely, and come up with your own opinions on the issues that are important to you? It feels more powerful to be part of a movement, but I'm not sure that feeling of power is real.
 
ksen said:
http://www.vox.com/2014/11/1/7136343/gamergate-and-the-politicization-of-absolutely-everything

If what Klein writes about is true then as a society we're probably on a very dangerous road and I don't know how you even start fixing it.
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It is an aspect of globalisation. The Internet has removed geographical barriers to communication, and ideas all now compete for survival in a global meme pool. And like genes, some ideas proliferate while others retreat to the fringe.

When it comes to politics, simple, emotionally-charged ideas prosper, whilst nuanced concepts do not. Any given political movement will have a common set of talking points that will be repeated emphatically but uncritically by myriad bloggers, commenters, posters and professional writers across the Web. The agenda-driven media and politicians themselves are only partly to blame to the dumbing down of political discourse.

One thing I like about this forum is that there is an opportunity to discuss popular ideas with scepticism with people who are, at least nominally, freethinkers who should not be swept up by popular opinion. But when it comes to politics the conversation often still retreats to simple, familiar talking points, and emotional rhetoric.
 
ksen said:
If what Klein writes about is true then as a society we're probably on a very dangerous road and I don't know how you even start fixing it.
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The US is always on a "dangerous road". Always either killing foreigners, each other or both. Or just plain rainsing hell for the feck of it. Americans have always been polarized, especially between those who struggle for the right to be left alone and those who feel that society hindering their right to fuck with others is a defilement of all that's holy (and sometimes, more times than defense mechanisms allow us to be aware of, the same person is in both camps).

And more than "dangerous", because that sounds like something bad might happen, it's more like everything bad is happening to someone else -very probably catered diligently by "us"- but heaven forbid a fraction of it happens to people like me because then oh the horror, until when will Heaven allow this ignominy to go on?

More like that.
 


Brilliant.

I just noticed that the sunglasses in They Live and the red pill in The Matrix are similar.
 
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