Media & social criticism with a technobabble engineering tilt
With the current armed conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, I have witnessed many people wondering how they could have had such a wrong picture on the perpetrators of violence of those conflicts. In this essay I explore the possibility that many of them could have incorrectly formed their opinions based merely on expatriates they know […]
Read More Self-Selecting liberal bias of expatriatesThere is a tendency for the populist right to take ideas from the critical left, capture them and repurpose the energy they have to mobilise the people to furthering their own goals. Naomi Klein in her latest book “Doppelgänger” has written a great analysis about this phenomenon, and I heartily recommend everyone from the left […]
Read More ”Deep state” is a criticism of globalisation taken from the 2000’s occupy left, seen through a libertarian right worldviewIt is imperative to understand that polarisation is a major driving force for the vulnerabilities in a democratic system. With a looming descent to a new Cold War between the west and the east, the information space is a primary front of war. Secret agents used to need to get to the top politicians and […]
Read More On the existential dangers of media polarisation for democracy
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