The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.
My shared hope as well. Let this be a mandate to democracies around the world to safeguard their governments from billionaires, capitalist greed, and neo facsism. Maybe that can be the world we strive to catch up to in the future.
The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
History is littered with cautionary tales. We never learn.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it;
Those who do study history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
In the last 2 decades, the major English bloc of US, Canada, UK and Australia has been in lock step toward the shift to the right. I think it is no coincidence that it aligns with the meteoric rise of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. To satiate his incredible greed, his media organizations have fed into people’s fears and laid down the groundwork for today’s social media companies promoting inflammatory content to maximize engagement. I don’t know if democracy can survive without reining in popular media and significantly reducing biased and false reporting.
American here. I hope the rest of the world looks at us in horror and chooses a better path forward.
And I hope that eventually that better path finds us agian.
My shared hope as well. Let this be a mandate to democracies around the world to safeguard their governments from billionaires, capitalist greed, and neo facsism. Maybe that can be the world we strive to catch up to in the future.
How many cautionary tales does the world need? The US is just the latest edition.
We won’t. Flatlander derangement syndrome will persist.