>Decades of culture war have degraded civic discourse,
The culture wars or the neoliberalism stuff is over. It's surprising how many still believe this is happening. Culture wars ended 2009-2014 or so.
>Bad faith communication has become normalized.
Before social media we had newspapers and when tv news came along they were extremely regulated. Bad faith was the standard. The newspapers publish lie after lie and they got away with it for decades if not centuries.
>When open communication cannot be used to resolve conflict and coordinate behavior, societies are driven towards chaos, war, oppression, and authoritarianism.
Everyone knows this, it is diplomacy/talking that ends wars. The entities like Twitter who are censoring communication under false pretense knows they are breaking this rule. They also understand their objective and how this is their intention.
>There should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side.
The author needs the realization is that the culture war is over. They need to analyze and discover who was the victor.
Let me show the battles:
Climate Change: would you say we are doing much of anything for climate change? Even fake efforts like carbon taxes that dont do anything?
Gamergate: would you say mandolorian boob armor was a problem?
BLM: Fundamentally police brutality and racism is a problem but did BLM achieve anything? Are there any defunding police? Did the democrats pass anything?
Comicsgate: Did red skull jordan peterson really work out?
LGBT: Dave Chapelle put an end to that one single handed. LGBT can rejoice.
UBI/MMT: Just tried it in limited fashion. Nobody seriously bringing this up anymore.
White fragility: Yep, white people are all racists. We totally need to teach that to our children.
There's 1 side who won basically all of those in the end. When you lose battle after battle during the culture war. You eventually lose.
What happened is in their failure they became a religion. There are now heresies and the heretics must burn. You must pay penance for your sinning.
I have never seen the government arrest so many religious leaders in my life. Our law in canada explicitly makes it illegal for police to arrest clergyman.
"arrest of officiating clergyman" is a crime that police are subject to, yet you can watch video on youtube of police breaking this law.
None of this is surprising. It's a new religion, new religions normally look to destroy their competitor religion.
The culture wars or the neoliberalism stuff is over. It's surprising how many still believe this is happening. Culture wars ended 2009-2014 or so.
>Bad faith communication has become normalized.
Before social media we had newspapers and when tv news came along they were extremely regulated. Bad faith was the standard. The newspapers publish lie after lie and they got away with it for decades if not centuries.
>When open communication cannot be used to resolve conflict and coordinate behavior, societies are driven towards chaos, war, oppression, and authoritarianism.
Everyone knows this, it is diplomacy/talking that ends wars. The entities like Twitter who are censoring communication under false pretense knows they are breaking this rule. They also understand their objective and how this is their intention.
>There should be no illusion: today’s culture war cannot be won by any side.
The author needs the realization is that the culture war is over. They need to analyze and discover who was the victor.
Let me show the battles:
Climate Change: would you say we are doing much of anything for climate change? Even fake efforts like carbon taxes that dont do anything?
Gamergate: would you say mandolorian boob armor was a problem?
BLM: Fundamentally police brutality and racism is a problem but did BLM achieve anything? Are there any defunding police? Did the democrats pass anything?
Comicsgate: Did red skull jordan peterson really work out?
LGBT: Dave Chapelle put an end to that one single handed. LGBT can rejoice.
UBI/MMT: Just tried it in limited fashion. Nobody seriously bringing this up anymore.
White fragility: Yep, white people are all racists. We totally need to teach that to our children.
There's 1 side who won basically all of those in the end. When you lose battle after battle during the culture war. You eventually lose.
What happened is in their failure they became a religion. There are now heresies and the heretics must burn. You must pay penance for your sinning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_church_burnings
None of those church fires ever got investigated by police.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/horrible-attack-catholi...
I have never seen the government arrest so many religious leaders in my life. Our law in canada explicitly makes it illegal for police to arrest clergyman.
"arrest of officiating clergyman" is a crime that police are subject to, yet you can watch video on youtube of police breaking this law.
None of this is surprising. It's a new religion, new religions normally look to destroy their competitor religion.