Picking up on my
previous post titled Just a thought I have further exercised my grey matter in
the hope of imagining an antidote to the poison introduced of late by the
Brexiteers and Trumpists. Could a kind of networked truth-telling
communitarianism be part of the answer?
from Quartz
“Many
citizens around the world are turning their sights inward to what they can
control: the cooperative economy and becoming more connected with their local
communities.”
Two-thirds
of America’s hundred largest cities are controlled by Democratic Party mayors,
aware of and concerned by the pressures within the communities for which they
are responsible. The mayors need to be on the front line in the battle against
‘disinformation’, intentionally
false
or misleading information spread to deceive target audiences. The English word
is a translation of the Russian дезинформация, transliterated as ‘dezinformatsiya’. The strategies of deception from Sun Tsu’s The Art of War had been studied in Moscow and widely used by the KGB: “I
will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for
strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness”. The echo-chamber
filter-bubbles propagated by Twitter and Facebook with their clickbait culture
rewarding eyeballs at the cost of integrity have added powerful tools of which
the Soviet schemers could only dream.
Post-factualist discourse marks a political culture in which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the details of policy, and by the
repeated assertion of talking points to
which factual rebuttals are ignored. Post-truth differs from traditional
contesting and falsifying of truth by rendering it of secondary importance. It
became widespread during the 2016 presidential election in the United States and the 2016 referendum on membership
in the European Union in the
United Kingdom.
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