Re:The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
by coldtea on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:47PM
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>And that left little room for dissenting opinions. Dissenting voices could be silenced easily, without fanfare and awareness by society at large. Now, it's not so easy.
I think it's the opposite. Dissenting opinions were more powerful and more coherent, when there was a coherent "establishment" baseline to go against. Now they're lost in the noise.
The 50s and even more so the 60s where much more potent when it come to rebellion and dissent. Between the civil rights movements, black activism like the Black Panthers, the student and youth movement, the feminists, the anti-Vietnam movement and so on, the US was really boiling with dissent.
In 2023 rebellion and dissent is either fringe or is partisan with corporate sponsorship. In either case, it's voice is drown.
Same for the press. In the 50s and 60s and 70s journalists would talk back to power much more poignantly, and publish incredible exposes. Now they're mostly shills who repeat establishment and party talk points, and the independent voices are let go.
I think it's the opposite. Dissenting opinions were more powerful and more coherent, when there was a coherent "establishment" baseline to go against. Now they're lost in the noise.
The 50s and even more so the 60s where much more potent when it come to rebellion and dissent. Between the civil rights movements, black activism like the Black Panthers, the student and youth movement, the feminists, the anti-Vietnam movement and so on, the US was really boiling with dissent.
In 2023 rebellion and dissent is either fringe or is partisan with corporate sponsorship. In either case, it's voice is drown.
Same for the press. In the 50s and 60s and 70s journalists would talk back to power much more poignantly, and publish incredible exposes. Now they're mostly shills who repeat establishment and party talk points, and the independent voices are let go.