alt Hacker NewsThanks for making this point. I 100% agree. I think previously the way politics worked, there was an element of people keeping each other in check. Now everyone can become as radicalized as their individual limits allow them to become because they live in a personally crafted narrative.
Yes, and not just politics - also day to day life. People would naturally average out with others around them, emotionally.
Not that previously there weren’t real issues (including, quite literally Nazi’s), but it previously required a whole society to go through something like a wide scale traumatic event (like post-WW1 massive external payments, hyperinflation, and associated social problems!) to get the momentum going.
Of course, then it was super dangerous because you had most of a society on the same page and working together. :s
Here, it seems like it’s mostly chaos and navel gazing, with small scale specific targeting of high profile areas, for ratings. At least so far.
The Overton window is shifting, and I’m not looking forward to where it is going so far.