Thread by @Staedtler

I got wondering why Brexit is old people. And I figured it out.

Brexit is old people's doing because old people are from before internet.

It's not just the old people can remember before internet. Old people had most of their life before internet. They're from a disconnected world. A dark ages of telegrams and town criers.

Before internet there was ignorance. All you knew about the outside world was what TV and newspapers told you. And if they were anything like they are now, they told you fuck all.

You can imagine what arrogance and vanity newsmen would have had forty years ago, when they were the only source of public information.
If you were going to find out anything about the world you would have to read it in a newspaper

And politicians the same. They knew that the public had no other source of information, and whoever controlled the newspapers and newsmen controlled the national conversation.

But the public ignorance that newsmen depended on has been overthrown by the internet.
You don't need English newsmen to tell you what the European Union is saying because you can turn on a computer and listen direct.

Newsmen used to hold the position of a sort of church. If information wasn't approved by the church council, you would never hear of it.

And English news, locked in the mentality of elderly men, still behaves as if we've got no other source of information.

Brexit has proved that old fashioned, hand-me-down news is obsolete. That way of thinking doesn't work any more.

As proof, three years ago I started saying that Theresa May was misusing Article 50 to scam a new treaty. And that this would fail.

Now, I figured that out for myself just by listening to what was being said. What European were saying, things that were never reported by the English newspaper churchemen

And it's because English newsmen have never adapted to the internet. The fact that we've got ready access to global information.

English newsmen chose to disregard everything foreigners were saying, acting like it was 1980 again. No computers, no internet.

That's why English journalism has been so dreadful throughout Brexit. They have chosen to disregard the outside world, oblivious to the fact we can all plug ourselves into it direct.

On the one side English news has been telling you when Brexit happens, what will Brexit mean, after Brexit blah blah blah.

And all that time I've kept saying that it's not going to happen.

For the last three years English newsmen, bunkered down behind their pay walls, have been repeating whatever English politicians say, in pound and posture.
And all that time I've been listening to Europeans

The Tories postured that they were going to get a new treaty within the Article 50 process.
Europe said you were not going to get a new treaty.

That was a contradiction. The Tories wanted a new treaty, and Europe said no.

I thought Europe would win that argument, and I was right.

English newsmen chose to adopt Tory posture, and they got it wrong.

And the reason i found it so easy to work out what was going to happen, and English news failed hopelessly, is because they pretend the internet doesn't exist.
The truth is on the internet, not in English newspapers.