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How Facebook Has Tunrned Each of Us into a Walled Garden (highscalability.com)
11 points by toddh on Dec 7, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Minitrue on steroids. No hardcopy = no messy reconciliations with past statements. Atomized information = no messy reconciliations amongst ourselves.

>In a democracy, we’re making choices that govern each other. So yes, we all have an obligation to understand each other.

Problem is, no one EVER attempted to understand the "other" with any empathy. Understanding was merely a tool to dominate.


Why does everything have to be Republicans Vs Democrats?


duopolies work great to give a false sense of choice. it fits well into the age-old strategy to "divide and conquer".

there's also a quite scientific component of hegel's dialectic. quite interesting stuff if you dare looking behind the curtain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duopoly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hege...




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