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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ | |||
Edelman Trust Barometer (an international measure of citizens’ trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations) | Edelman Trust Barometer (an international measure of citizens’ trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations) | ||
The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal solvent, breaking down bonds and weakening institutions everywhere it reached. '''He noted that distributed networks “can protest and overthrow, but never govern.”''' | The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal solvent, breaking down bonds and weakening institutions everywhere it reached. '''He noted that distributed networks “can protest and overthrow, but never govern.”''' | ||
'''“politics is the art of the possible,”''' the German statesman Otto von Bismarck said in 1867. In a post-Babel democracy, not much may be possible. That's a take different than the [[The Art of Possibility]]. | '''“politics is the art of the possible,”''' the German statesman Otto von Bismarck said in 1867. In a post-Babel democracy, not much may be possible. That's a take different than the [[The Art of Possibility]]. | ||
'''People who think differently and are willing to speak up if they disagree with you make you smarter, almost as if they are extensions of your own brain. People who try to silence or intimidate their critics make themselves stupider, almost as if they are shooting darts into their own brain.''' | |||
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Good Article
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Edelman Trust Barometer (an international measure of citizens’ trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations)
The former CIA analyst Martin Gurri predicted these fracturing effects in his 2014 book, The Revolt of the Public. Gurri’s analysis focused on the authority-subverting effects of information’s exponential growth, beginning with the internet in the 1990s. Writing nearly a decade ago, Gurri could already see the power of social media as a universal solvent, breaking down bonds and weakening institutions everywhere it reached. He noted that distributed networks “can protest and overthrow, but never govern.”
“politics is the art of the possible,” the German statesman Otto von Bismarck said in 1867. In a post-Babel democracy, not much may be possible. That's a take different than the The Art of Possibility.
People who think differently and are willing to speak up if they disagree with you make you smarter, almost as if they are extensions of your own brain. People who try to silence or intimidate their critics make themselves stupider, almost as if they are shooting darts into their own brain.