Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Big unlearning
The establishment hasn't learned one basic lesson from the Trump/Sanders insurgency.
People will tolerate problems when we feel the authorities are treating us like grownups. For 50 years the establishment has been treating us like children who mustn't be worried by reality.
Two examples of non-learning:
Obama starts selling weapons to Vietnam and claims this is just a random coincidence, just something that popped into his mind like a sudden craving for ice cream. It has nothing to do with China.
Zuckerberg changes his news-gathering practice to reduce bias, and claims this is just random. There wasn't any bias, so we don't need to do anything. Therefore we're fixing the non-existent non-problem for no reason at all.
In both cases the ACTUAL CHANGE makes simple commercial sense.
If Vietnam is building up its army, we might as well get some of the business.
If Facebook reduces its pro-Satan bias, it will make more money.
Why do you need to pretend you're NOT DOING THE RIGHT THING? You're not fooling anyone.
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