Good, bad or otherwise, they are at the root of all goings on, good, bad or otherwise. New modes of communication supporting our evolving high-tech society have challenged accepted norms of human behavior, resulting in the currently unacceptable state of online interaction.
Spotify now forms the communication battle lines between truth and falsehood in the malleable minds of viewers and stakeholders everywhere. The problem is not just “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.” as Mitchel opines. Rather, so-called responsible celebrities with followers who believe them, deliberately tell lies and spread misinformation. That’s not just irresponsible. It is dishonest, anti-social and wholly abhorrent. The only reason they do it is to improves their own social and/or political standing with likes, re-tweets, followers, marketing money and all the associated bullshit that goes along with sensational social media – at the expense of public health! The scary part to me is whether or not they actually believe this shyt themselves! Who knows!? Vaxxed politicians feigning privacy rights only further illustrates the hypocrisy.
As usual, it’s just a new angle on an old issue. The danger in communications mediums nowadays is they have become ubiquitous and fast. It’s everywhere, everybody has a cellphone and there is no throttle or filter. The conservatives learned this first in their rush to exploit an untenable political situation. The gatekeepers chose to cash in, rather than modulate.
Too much truth has always been bad for conservative politicians. Now they have an effective means of overwriting it in etch-a-sketch Facebook⢠minds.
