Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics
by mindslight on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:00PM
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"Defense" is the age-old refrain of the attacker.
And from a neutral point of view, both teams are doing a lot of attacking - while also seeing themselves as being under attack. Given the circularity, taking a step back and analyzing the larger picture intellectually is the only way to possibly win!
It's funny how we could see the sensationalism of the news cycle as it ramped up in traditional channels, but now that much of our media is our own social echo chamber, it's less perceptible.
Understanding the larger forces in play might be intellectually interesting, but if it results in apathy and forgetting to play defense it's just another way to lose.
Maybe voting isn't going to make things a whole lot better, but remember that it could always be worse.