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Re:Death of a Dystopian by jondubois on Thursday April 06, 2017 @05:10AM (#14049020)
Unfortunately, the forces which affect everyone in our society today tend to be too deep and too complex for everyone to actually understand them.

For any given problem, the people who understand the problem are often unwilling to fix it because doing so might not align with their financial interests.

The few expert dissidents that exist in any given area need the support of the uninformed masses in order to change things.

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Re:Death of a Dystopian by throaway23 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @07:00AM (#14049466)
I find it hard to buy this argument today. Obama and Trump have proved getting support by pandering doesn't take us anywhere closer to solutions. But the current architecture of our socialnetworks and media keep promoting this notion. All I see happening is more pandering until the underlying architecture that reinforces this behaviour changes.
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