Le populisme ne dépend pas uniquement de ceux qui l’exploitent. Les systèmes de communication favorisent déjà les mécanismes qui amplifient la division, la défiance et l’instabilité politique.
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Populismus entsteht nicht allein durch gezielte Manipulation. Kommunikationssysteme begünstigen bereits die Mechanismen, die Polarisierung, Misstrauen und politische Instabilität verstärken.
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Pepper: softly spoken lies
There is a line in Pepper by the Butthole Surfers that lands almost casually: you never know just how you look through other people’s eyes. The song drifts through arbitrary violence, strange lives, and unresolved fragments, people moving through events that feel coherent from within but unsettling from outside. That line shifts the frame. It […]
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YouTube: Algorithmic Misanthropy
The feed keeps trying to teach me that power is something you copy from people who already have too much of it. The platform pushes one rhythm: admire wealth, follow dominance, narrow yourself until you match the beat it rewards. But nothing alive survives by doing that. Identity only holds together when it keeps a […]
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Pyrrhic
Pyrrhic Victory (n.) A triumph won at such devastating cost to the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. By extension: a situation in which short-term gains are pursued in a manner that annihilates the very foundation from which those gains are drawn. Applied sense:To turn one’s own country into a bonfire for profit — […]
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Loaded Dice: Global Chaos
When two six-sided dice are rolled, some numbers appear more often than others, not because the dice are biased, but because the combinations that make them possible are more numerous. A two requires only one pairing—one and one—while a seven can be produced by six different pairings: one and six, two and five, three and […]
Successful perception-manipulation through information-mediated reinforcement requires an intuitive comprehension and insight into a cultural, historical “moment”…
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Social Media: Insouciance or Anxiety ?
…why farm people’s identities when they quite happily, enthusiastically, farm themselves for you…
Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality…
