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I think we're seeing a few of these "echo chambers" forming.
My worry is that they're superseding national identity in terms of how meaningful they are to people + gaining enough engaged adherents to truly be a nation.
As I've harped on before - the internet is potentially a printing-press level disruption to politics.
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@xenon said in Build your own..:
I think we're seeing a few of these "echo chambers" forming.
My worry is that they're superseding national identity in terms of how meaningful they are to people + gaining enough engaged adherents to truly be a nation.
As I've harped on before - the internet is potentially a printing-press level disruption to politics.
I think we're all in agreement about what the internet has meant in terms of not just political but social upheaval as well...
As far as the whole right-wing social media thing, here's the primary issue... Right-wingers suck at entertainment. I mean, the Tim Allen show was pretty decent but I don't want EVERY FRIGGING VIDEO/MEME/COMMENTARY to have a fvcking political or social bent. Sometimes I just want to watch a squirrel be catapaulted hundreds of yards on a home-made squirrel flinger. I don't need somebody commenting about how it can also be used on illegal immigrants at the same time...
Yes, mainstream media puts all kind of social and political stuff in their movies and shows, but at least they don't star Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo...
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@lufins-dad said in Build your own..:
Right-wingers suck at entertainment. I mean, the Tim Allen show was pretty decent but I don't want EVERY FRIGGING VIDEO/MEME/COMMENTARY to have a fvcking political or social bent.
Shut up and sing?
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@lufins-dad said in Build your own..:
@xenon said in Build your own..:
I think we're seeing a few of these "echo chambers" forming.
My worry is that they're superseding national identity in terms of how meaningful they are to people + gaining enough engaged adherents to truly be a nation.
As I've harped on before - the internet is potentially a printing-press level disruption to politics.
I think we're all in agreement about what the internet has meant in terms of not just political but social upheaval as well...
As far as the whole right-wing social media thing, here's the primary issue... Right-wingers suck at entertainment. I mean, the Tim Allen show was pretty decent but I don't want EVERY FRIGGING VIDEO/MEME/COMMENTARY to have a fvcking political or social bent. Sometimes I just want to watch a squirrel be catapaulted hundreds of yards on a home-made squirrel flinger. I don't need somebody commenting about how it can also be used on illegal immigrants at the same time...
Yes, mainstream media puts all kind of social and political stuff in their movies and shows, but at least they don't star Kirk Cameron and Kevin Sorbo...
You mean like the Dixie Chicks and George Clooney and Robert DeNiro and all the others?
