True we don't agree, but that was not required to unify society on authorized facts.
It is very clear what the facts are socially when the State media declares them via TV, newspaper and authority figures. The internet gave endless niches, virality and influence to disagreement.
Right now you can ignore any facts I bring up and continue to spread flat earth as a fact (not saying that's your view), when before that behaviour would have been ostracized socially.
Now I have to adhere to literal meanings or conquer with sophistry to find agreement on factual grounding.
For culture wars, I don't care, do whatever you want. Say the earth is flat.
But for collboration, understanding and finding boundaries, it makes things very difficult and worse than the past.
> It is very clear what the facts are socially when the State media declares them via TV, newspaper and authority figures.
And that left little room for dissenting opinions. Dissenting voices could be silenced easily, without fanfare and awareness by society at large. Now, it's not so easy.
> Right now you can ignore any facts I bring up
Indeed.
> before that behaviour would have been ostracized socially
It's still ostracized, even online. Remember "cancel culture"? That's a characteristic of the digital age. Before the Internet, people were finding their niches regardless. They would do it in secret - in barns, basements, or whatever.
> it makes things very difficult and worse than the past
It also makes collaboration very easy. Never before have we been able to connect our ideas to millions of people around the world.
>And that left little room for dissenting opinions. Dissenting voices could be silenced easily, without fanfare and awareness by society at large. Now, it's not so easy.
I think it's the opposite. Dissenting opinions were more powerful and more coherent, when there was a coherent "establishment" baseline to go against. Now they're lost in the noise.
The 50s and even more so the 60s where much more potent when it come to rebellion and dissent. Between the civil rights movements, black activism like the Black Panthers, the student and youth movement, the feminists, the anti-Vietnam movement and so on, the US was really boiling with dissent.
In 2023 rebellion and dissent is either fringe or is partisan with corporate sponsorship. In either case, it's voice is drown.
Same for the press. In the 50s and 60s and 70s journalists would talk back to power much more poignantly, and publish incredible exposes. Now they're mostly shills who repeat establishment and party talk points, and the independent voices are let go.
It is very clear what the facts are socially when the State media declares them via TV, newspaper and authority figures. The internet gave endless niches, virality and influence to disagreement.
Right now you can ignore any facts I bring up and continue to spread flat earth as a fact (not saying that's your view), when before that behaviour would have been ostracized socially.
Now I have to adhere to literal meanings or conquer with sophistry to find agreement on factual grounding.
For culture wars, I don't care, do whatever you want. Say the earth is flat.
But for collboration, understanding and finding boundaries, it makes things very difficult and worse than the past.