Re: <nettime> Digital leftism in a globalised world?

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

I wish.

The 'left' discourse has been divorced from the reality for almost a 
decade, since the mixed race president got into the office. This 
cognitive dissonance was required to imagine the progress.

Everything became a meme, a notion, an idea, easy to contain, direct and 
bend. Instead of propaganda being manufactured by the state, the whole 
swaths of population willingly took part in it. Many of the loud ones 
got paid.

It's hard to wean off that. Just look at the panic when the reality 
refused to follow the doctored polls. The real shock, and the end to the 
cargo cult politics will come when the new masters start laying off the 
obsolete propaganda machine.

Twitter is cheaper.


On 1/26/17, 6:34, Alexander Bard wrote:

>     Can we please raise the quality of postings on this forum to at least
>     slightly above the junior high school level?
>     And while I'm at it, may I suggest a pause from the usage of the sloppy
>     demonising term "neo-liberalism"?
>     I can not in all honesty accept that we put a word on some kind of
>     garbage waste bin into which we are all allowed to throw in anything we
>     do not spontaneously like and then refer to it as "neo-liberalism". It
>     is not just sloppy, it is outright idiotic, and it explains why The
>     Left is losing everything as we speak. It has gone lazily bonkers.

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