One thing I’m noticing, and starting to hear from others as well, is a shift away from institutions and more towards individuals. So like I’ve avoided CNN, but Fareed Zakaria on the other hand seems to be making some sense - not that I agree 100%, but enough to get me thinking outside of what I would have unaided.
Perhaps in the future it won’t so much where or how we get out news from - like it could just as readily be Mastodon as YouTube as news org - so much as who we choose to listen to.
Which pisses me off to no end, bc now I have to suddenly keep track of individual names in order to know anything at all?! Plus the good ones will burn out, usually somewhat shortly after they get really good, before which they made mistakes more often, leaving only a window of time in-between where they are awesome.
It’s almost like capitalism enshittifies literally every fucking thing that it touches, ya’know!?:-P
Oh well, the trick is to keep up. Somehow.
You might not be saying that… so then allow me to: I definitely am one of those people!:-P
I tend to live in places where my vote doesn’t count much, and have to move around a lot, so not always, but often. And for the first 20+ of my life did not really get into politics and such at all - I found it too confusing, and intuitively realized that despite how people would urge me to just get out and vote, I was legitimately better off not doing that, until I was willing to put forth the time and effort required to understand matters and make an actual informed decision.
Translation: I would have voted Republican, bc that’s what my family was, thus amplifying their voices merely due to the fact that they had me as a child. I am so glad that I ignored all the socially accepted advice that somehow always neglected to mention the other side of that coin: e.g. that if you vote for (or against) something - a war perhaps, or a budget cut - it makes you complicit in the outcome. Probably so too does not voting, but I’m talking about when I was a dumb kid here, where it’s more understandable.
Now I realize that my church had lied to me, my state had lied to me, my news had lied to me - or rather, has rather than had for each of these bc it continues to happen - and I see just how much effort it takes to be a responsible citizen. And I see that others are unwilling to put forth that same level of effort that I did.
So yeah, I hope that curated feeds can be made for people. And automation can help with that. On the one hand it continues to make us more and more tribal, but on the other hand if such do not exist then how are the even younger generations going to so much as begin the process of figuring out even the tiniest nuggets of truth as they lie buried amidst all of the numerous and insidious lies?