Serendipitous timing, given my last thread with the thread about rationality in propaganda analysis and the War on Terror.
Obviously, I am 100% behind the need for logic, rationality, and wise strategy over the passion of emotion.
However...
Post-9/11 came the question of prosecution: "terrorism" as criminal act, or war? And that went well.
I'm not arguing for "making a lesson" (etc) out of Capitol insurrectionists, but something to think about:
Entitlement and expectation of no consequences played a huge role.
Reinforcing the disproportionately gentle treatment, benefit of the doubt, and culture of impunity for an aggrieved extreme group is, in the long run...
Unwise, for all of us.
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Quick thread on the Capitol siege and media culpability (it's not what you might expect) incoming.
Recently, we've heard A LOT about media culpability for platforming and laundering the ideologies of white supremacists like Richard Spencer. All fair.
I won't rehash the other list of grievances.
But there's another issue that's older: the death of print media and paywalls.
Contemporary media rests on two foundations:
1) access 2) profit
Obviously, the need for each corrupts the entire enterprise. But their convergence raises an urgent problem we need to address ASAP.