you are right new age superstition is undermining people's critical thinking. we need a lot more scientific education for the democratization of tech. i meant simplification of political messages and identification of key issues to polarize the body politic.
Il domenica 30 agosto 2015, Geert Lovink <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Strong analysis, Alex. I agreed up to this last point. Coming from the low > lands where pragmatism rules, the culture here is deeply anti-intellectual. > It’s main problem is the rejection of debate and reflexion, outlawing > intellectuals, both from political parties and social movement. The source > of this is positivism on the one side (specially amongst the Greens who > detest any form of negativism and critique as not constructive and exclude > all these voices that are not ‘reasonable’). So do not forget, in many > places, more intellectual means more popular because it is inclusive of > different voices that break the New Age consensus that paralyzes us right > now. > > Geert # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
