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Wednesday 29 May 2013

Edward Greenspon and Media Murmurations



 
 
It's not hard to see why I enjoyed this piece - I see a trend of social murmuration on platforms like Twitter, too.  I like the fact that Greenspon refers to the Harper government's general inclination towards divide and conquer, too.  They're particularly good at that, but we have a political system entirely geared towards creating coalitions of voters around a given issue rather than drilling down to and then build on the foundation of common aspirations. 
 
We find all kinds of ways to justify this essentially tribal politics, but if you look more broadly, you see the same thing happen within and between religious institutions, community groups, even the scientific community.  It's no surprise why - we are predominantly a cognitively function-fixed species.  The competitive busy-ness of the modern economy fuels this as we convince ourselves it's not our job to push ourselves to learn something new, it's someone else's job to simply things for us.  Or we try to tell ourselves we fundamentally don't care about substance.  We can choose to see but through a glass darkly, or we can walk through the door that is always open to us.
 
Individually, we can be ignored or destroyed but collectively, people have power. 
 
It's a tree/forest thing.

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