Like so many heinous realities that happened and continue to happen through human history, what has changed is mass literacy, instant access to up to the minute information, and ubiquitous audio/video recording by the citizenry.
At most, most people interested in current events at all used to get 1 highly manicured source of data from one highly biased source a day, a newspaper.
Now most people struggle to escape constant deluges of information. This is how the masses came for mass rape culture in business, this is why its understandable in public to condemn the nation’s police forces, etc. The nature of the information age opened and continues to open the larger population to realities they only had glimmers of before, and even when things were understood to be a certain way, people didn’t go above and beyond to verify inconvenient/troubling suspicions.
Now, anything of the slightest interest is shown to you 17 times a day. Inconvenient truths are thankfully belabored until there is either a response (ie MeToo) or a sad mass realization of an ongoing injustice/travesty we’re powerless to change (ie guns/for profit prisons/for profit war).
Tldr Humans have been and never stopped being bastards towards one another through all recorded history, this is just tbe first age where everyone is literally confronted with the direct evidence of that truth 24/7.
That ignores the echo chamber effect and the proliferation of junk data as well as propaganda. We are ill equipped to sort all the good information from the garbage coming out of the firehouse.
techno feudalism is enslaving the capitalist class so they are a lot more likely to allow the peasants to access the social mobility that defines true capitalism now that it’s no escape
Are you kidding me? These are the people that had secret meetings about when the resource wars come, and they’re on their private islands, if shock collars would be effective in keeping their security personnel loyal.
I mean, sentiments do seem to be shifting, as we’re in later stage capitalism in which the problems are so blatant that they’re literally drowning people. So, I’d say that.
What’s changed that would open the public’s eyes now? This has been going on for millennia.
Like so many heinous realities that happened and continue to happen through human history, what has changed is mass literacy, instant access to up to the minute information, and ubiquitous audio/video recording by the citizenry.
At most, most people interested in current events at all used to get 1 highly manicured source of data from one highly biased source a day, a newspaper.
Now most people struggle to escape constant deluges of information. This is how the masses came for mass rape culture in business, this is why its understandable in public to condemn the nation’s police forces, etc. The nature of the information age opened and continues to open the larger population to realities they only had glimmers of before, and even when things were understood to be a certain way, people didn’t go above and beyond to verify inconvenient/troubling suspicions.
Now, anything of the slightest interest is shown to you 17 times a day. Inconvenient truths are thankfully belabored until there is either a response (ie MeToo) or a sad mass realization of an ongoing injustice/travesty we’re powerless to change (ie guns/for profit prisons/for profit war).
Tldr Humans have been and never stopped being bastards towards one another through all recorded history, this is just tbe first age where everyone is literally confronted with the direct evidence of that truth 24/7.
That ignores the echo chamber effect and the proliferation of junk data as well as propaganda. We are ill equipped to sort all the good information from the garbage coming out of the firehouse.
We’re not powerless; we are divided. Hence culture wars.
techno feudalism is enslaving the capitalist class so they are a lot more likely to allow the peasants to access the social mobility that defines true capitalism now that it’s no escape
Are you kidding me? These are the people that had secret meetings about when the resource wars come, and they’re on their private islands, if shock collars would be effective in keeping their security personnel loyal.
I mean, sentiments do seem to be shifting, as we’re in later stage capitalism in which the problems are so blatant that they’re literally drowning people. So, I’d say that.
Ikr? We need an altruistic billionaire or few to be heroes. Oh wait, that’s an oxymoron.
It’s easier than ever before for anyone to get access to information.
And more people are starting to take a look behind the curtain.