It may be that technology facilitated this particular wave of wokery but it doesn’t explain the previous waves.
The cycle has been the same for half a century now, at least: a period of pronounced media + state sympathy for various disaffected minorities -> the inevitable incompetence, crime, and rioting -> opinion of “silent majority” slowly recoils and, fearing electoral disaster, the elite + state pull back -> wait 20 years for everyone to forget -> repeat from the start.
Is that due to technology? Or is it simply that each new generation is confronted with the unalterable problem of disparate ability, and, as the young always do, believe they have an insight their unenlightened forebears lacked?
Definitely remember those insanely annoying BuzzFeed, etc. articles ("Things Trans People are Tired of Hearing," "Black Women are Tired," etc.) started going viral on Facebook, etc. They/the other platforms definitely poisoned the minds of a lot of my friends from college. There was a noticeable difference amongst the people in my social circles in say 2013 versus even just a few years later. People that were never very political were suddenly mouthing nonsense. And they of course drank the similiar kool-aid when it came to the anti-Trump hysteria Scott mentions. Lol It's sad and they were definitely not "conservative" years in America but it makes me nostalgic for the 2000s.
I once stated on a roundtable the only outlet the right wing used to always dominate without left wing interference was talk radio. As Scott stated here once again the left completely took something over as a new medium of communication. I always wonder is it because the left is much more aggressive and the right passive and nice guys? Or because the rich oligarchs have become leftists and everyone just follows from there. By the way Huffington Post was by far the worst outlet. So happy they are dying and especially Luke O’briens career.
Sleeping Giants was 1 of the most notorious groups. All they did was go after Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, or Breitbart when it was more alt right or alt lite. That group would just scare advertisers to death and they would all cave. Similar to how the ADL did this to Elon Musk's X and their advertisers.
Tens of thousands of media jobs, including journalism, are gone. A huge reason behind the push for leftism. Investors and parent companies got sick of funding rags that weren't producing revenue. This will be a good thing a second Trump admin.
It may be that technology facilitated this particular wave of wokery but it doesn’t explain the previous waves.
The cycle has been the same for half a century now, at least: a period of pronounced media + state sympathy for various disaffected minorities -> the inevitable incompetence, crime, and rioting -> opinion of “silent majority” slowly recoils and, fearing electoral disaster, the elite + state pull back -> wait 20 years for everyone to forget -> repeat from the start.
Is that due to technology? Or is it simply that each new generation is confronted with the unalterable problem of disparate ability, and, as the young always do, believe they have an insight their unenlightened forebears lacked?
Definitely remember those insanely annoying BuzzFeed, etc. articles ("Things Trans People are Tired of Hearing," "Black Women are Tired," etc.) started going viral on Facebook, etc. They/the other platforms definitely poisoned the minds of a lot of my friends from college. There was a noticeable difference amongst the people in my social circles in say 2013 versus even just a few years later. People that were never very political were suddenly mouthing nonsense. And they of course drank the similiar kool-aid when it came to the anti-Trump hysteria Scott mentions. Lol It's sad and they were definitely not "conservative" years in America but it makes me nostalgic for the 2000s.
I once stated on a roundtable the only outlet the right wing used to always dominate without left wing interference was talk radio. As Scott stated here once again the left completely took something over as a new medium of communication. I always wonder is it because the left is much more aggressive and the right passive and nice guys? Or because the rich oligarchs have become leftists and everyone just follows from there. By the way Huffington Post was by far the worst outlet. So happy they are dying and especially Luke O’briens career.
Sleeping Giants was 1 of the most notorious groups. All they did was go after Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, or Breitbart when it was more alt right or alt lite. That group would just scare advertisers to death and they would all cave. Similar to how the ADL did this to Elon Musk's X and their advertisers.
Tens of thousands of media jobs, including journalism, are gone. A huge reason behind the push for leftism. Investors and parent companies got sick of funding rags that weren't producing revenue. This will be a good thing a second Trump admin.