• Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s actually really great! 1000 kudos to you

    Why do you think political wisdom wasn’t applicable in 2016 and hasn’t been since?

    I think that’s is really one of the most important things we need to try and understand and I don’t think it’s mainly due to the Internet being a factor.

    My guess is it’s moreso due to the influence of money on political campaigns, the influence of mega-corporations on the job market, and all the offshoring of jobs in the last few decades. The terrible state of our education system really doesn’t help either

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      Why do you think political wisdom wasn’t applicable in 2016 and hasn’t been since?

      I think that’s is really one of the most important things we need to try and understand and I don’t think it’s mainly due to the Internet being a factor.

      The internet, globalism, the collapse of Rhine Capitalism in favor of neoliberalism and reactions against it, the lack of a clear ideological ‘enemy’ to face… it could be any number of things. All I know for sure is that we’re living in ‘interesting times’, and it’ll likely continue to be ‘interesting’ for a while before any new ‘conventional’ wisdom can be made.