Marieke van Dam
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Marieke van Dam
Center-left's struggle with innovation while right-wing embraces risk-taking and new technologies in smartphone era politics
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Why do you think that is? I think that does get to the class issue that you were talking about.
The center-left got very comfortable being the kind of meritocratic, technocratic elite that always had the right answer, you know, the kind of smarty-pants answer that everybody in there would congratulate them on.
And the
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Technology's role in transforming media from hierarchical broadcast systems to distributed networks, empowering individuals and extremism
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And technology may be the single most important. It's the kind of the one that begins it all.
So if you think, I'm glad you brought up the authoritarians of the 20s and 30s, because they really did play off the invention of radio. And what they used radio for was as a kind of one-to-many broadcast system that was able to create a kind of
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Shift from economic to cultural voting patterns and growing wealth inequality in American politics
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But there is another story, which is that over the last 30 or 40 years, you are seeing a consistent shift of people moving away from voting purely their economic interests and voting more their cultural, gender, racial identity.
So if you go back 40 or 50 years, you could predict pretty tightly how somebody would vote based on whether they made more
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"Tragic optimism" is the search for meaning during the inevitable tragedies of human existence, and is better for us than avoiding darkness and trying to "stay positive."
I made @TheAtlantic's Most Memorable Advice of 2021, nbd
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“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift. “ — Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Joy doesn’t mean you’re ignoring the hard stuff.
It doesn’t fix the heavy things, but it can make carrying them a little easier.
Let it in, even just a little, whenever you can.
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joy is probably the most difficult emotion to really feel. Why? Because when we lose the ability or willingness to be vulnerable, joy becomes something we approach with deep foreboding. This shift from our younger self’s greeting of joy with unalloyed delight happens slowly and outside of our awareness. We don’t seem to even know that it’s
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