it’s true, it’s desperately fucked knowing that these newspapers and institutions started indexes (the democracy index, the press freedom index, the human development index, Gini inequality…) in the 1990s-2000s, and at the time they, and maybe everyone who’s now over the age of 40, had this beautiful optimism that the world would continue to become more free and more equal and more righteous, only to hit this global collapse that we have awesome tools for objectively measuring and no hard or soft power to resist
100%. I’m hopeful that with increased awareness more people will wake up to the reality at hand and take action. There has to be a breaking point where people finally realize they are being manipulated to be polarized, outraged, fearful, hateful, etc. by an uncaring apparatus that just wants to maintain the status quo (or whatever their particular agenda is) and steal their attention, largely.
it’s true, it’s desperately fucked knowing that these newspapers and institutions started indexes (the democracy index, the press freedom index, the human development index, Gini inequality…) in the 1990s-2000s, and at the time they, and maybe everyone who’s now over the age of 40, had this beautiful optimism that the world would continue to become more free and more equal and more righteous, only to hit this global collapse that we have awesome tools for objectively measuring and no hard or soft power to resist
100%. I’m hopeful that with increased awareness more people will wake up to the reality at hand and take action. There has to be a breaking point where people finally realize they are being manipulated to be polarized, outraged, fearful, hateful, etc. by an uncaring apparatus that just wants to maintain the status quo (or whatever their particular agenda is) and steal their attention, largely.