nemoLx
nemoLx t1_j44bfl6 wrote
Reply to comment by embracetheinfinite in [OC] American confidence in the government, economy, and information has been declining by GeorgeDaGreat123
is the question one of truth and trust, or one of consensus?
long gone are the days where we work in local, small, sub-urban communities and watch the same 30 min evening news and the same front page of the daily gazette or even the NYT/WSJ.
now everyone is subbed to a multitude of personal feeds on a multitude of apps from a multitude of sources, and work with people from all over the world, and no in the post pandemic era, literally virtual talking heads living in different part of the world at the same time.
do we even have a shared reality anymore?
nemoLx t1_j44a3xv wrote
Reply to comment by GeorgeDaGreat123 in [OC] American confidence in the government, economy, and information has been declining by GeorgeDaGreat123
what's more interesting to me is the confidence in the press experienced far sharper drop from the 70s to the dawn of the the digital age, than during the much longer digital age
85 to 60 in 20 years prior to digital age vs 60 to 50 in 30+ years since
nemoLx t1_jcfpjm2 wrote
Reply to Why We Need to Think Beyond Science to Save the World by derstarkerewille
The words "save" and "world" need to be defined first.
Not sure how you could do that without some kind of artificial value system that is universal and needs no further justification.