Shuttering the big news orgs is a permanent damage. It further fractures the shared reality and we are all left in our private chambers, accurate or not
we are simply entering a new era where truth is an expensive and rare thing while hallucinated slop is force fed to almost everyone
Forming a cooperative would be great for their professional lives and maybe benefit a few subscribers but society has otherwise completely lost
I’ve referred to this as the death of the expert, apparently there’s also a book similarly titled that covers the same concept.
I highly recommend anyone interested to look up Operation Mindfuck, how it worked and where some of the Discordians that took part ended up going later in their lives. I would also argue removing sources of authority like news organizations, or at least ruining their legitimacy, is a part of pushing the population towards chapel perilous.
As for the concerns about funding a news coop, I wonder if the relative success of Dropout tv would be a good model? The only other successful organization in an unsuccessful format I can think of is The Onion, but they had a major investor save them.
Shuttering the big news orgs is a permanent damage. It further fractures the shared reality and we are all left in our private chambers, accurate or not
we are simply entering a new era where truth is an expensive and rare thing while hallucinated slop is force fed to almost everyone
Forming a cooperative would be great for their professional lives and maybe benefit a few subscribers but society has otherwise completely lost
Does socialism provide solutions to truth being expensive and rare?
Truth is still expensive but if the public intelligently funds to uncover and disseminate it then at least it will be accessible
I’ve referred to this as the death of the expert, apparently there’s also a book similarly titled that covers the same concept.
I highly recommend anyone interested to look up Operation Mindfuck, how it worked and where some of the Discordians that took part ended up going later in their lives. I would also argue removing sources of authority like news organizations, or at least ruining their legitimacy, is a part of pushing the population towards chapel perilous.
As for the concerns about funding a news coop, I wonder if the relative success of Dropout tv would be a good model? The only other successful organization in an unsuccessful format I can think of is The Onion, but they had a major investor save them.