* Interesting concept - not sure about its name.
EMOCRACY****NIALL FERGUSON
january 27 2019, 12:01am, the sunday times
Feeling beats truth in our indignant ‘emocracy’
niall ferguson
Even grand US newspapers can’t resist social media’s moral truthiness
We no longer live in a democracy. We live in an “emocracy”, where emotions rather than majorities rule and feelings matter more than reason. The stronger your feelings — the better you are at working yourself into a fit of indignation — the more influence you have. And never use words where emojis will do.
There was a time when appeals to emotion over facts were regarded as the preserve of the populist right. But truthiness — the quality of being ideologically convenient, though not actually true — is now bipartisan. Last week on the CBS show 60 Minutes, host Anderson Cooper confronted the 29-year-old congresswoman and social media sensation Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with some of her many factual errors. Her reply was that of a true emocrat:…
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"I feel therefore I am right". I see/hear it all the time & I have retreated into hermitville.
Mooolah
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Jan 29, 2019
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e-mocracy or "I feel therefore I am right" is exactly the reason for the "Ask for evidence" campaign. How often do you use that phrase?
@Mcflewster Evidence does not matter to these folks. I give up on 'em.
@Countrywoman But we should make it matter . Being involved in some sort of court case - (as an observer hopefully) is one way of doing it. Why IS everyone looking at these crime dramas and police force series and people are still not seeing the importance of evidence.
www.askforevidence.org
What’s the address? I need to go there too!
In the the market place of ideas we're all traders now. No mere consumers. And the ideas that we trade in the most are those that evoke the most visceral reactions. Those who engage in fact checking and consideration are simply slowed down and less active in the marketplace. Such quality control adds no perceived value. I'm less likely to see a nuanced take on the governmental budget from a friend than my mother in law sharing a call to find a dog that went went missing 4 years ago. Share now, don't think, re-tweet don't consider.
MattHardy
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Jan 27, 2019
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