California got cold feet on bail reform as voters rejected a groundbreaking program to eliminate money from pretrial release decisions. Now Illinois shows it can work.
It was a joke but it’s also real. I live in a city in California and I’ve heard suburbanites say it’s literally not safe to come to my neighborhood because they actually think they will be spotted and attacked instantly. Meanwhile, as I mentioned, crime rates have dropped considerably and I can’t even think of a single person I know who has had a recent problem with crime. It’s like the media has whole-cloth fabricated a crisis that just isn’t happening and I feel like no one but me can see it. Insane.
Media for free has produced a system where the only sustainable business model is producing, effectively, propaganda for people who have a bunch of spare cash lying around and want to invest in your media if you’re willing to promote their narrative.
At the same time, the tools of constructing an imaginary worldview and convincing your viewers / readers that that imaginary reality is what’s going on have gotten incredibly more powerful. And there’s a huge incentive to do it, because if you can do it well enough you can win elections and gain access to a river of money that is literally billions of dollars.
It would be weird if there weren’t a bunch of people walking around with this weird constructed narrative in their heads that they think is reality. But it’s still super jarring when you run into them and their picture has some kind of confluence with the actual real world and you can see how wrong it is in reality.
It was a joke but it’s also real. I live in a city in California and I’ve heard suburbanites say it’s literally not safe to come to my neighborhood because they actually think they will be spotted and attacked instantly. Meanwhile, as I mentioned, crime rates have dropped considerably and I can’t even think of a single person I know who has had a recent problem with crime. It’s like the media has whole-cloth fabricated a crisis that just isn’t happening and I feel like no one but me can see it. Insane.
Yeah.
Media for free has produced a system where the only sustainable business model is producing, effectively, propaganda for people who have a bunch of spare cash lying around and want to invest in your media if you’re willing to promote their narrative.
At the same time, the tools of constructing an imaginary worldview and convincing your viewers / readers that that imaginary reality is what’s going on have gotten incredibly more powerful. And there’s a huge incentive to do it, because if you can do it well enough you can win elections and gain access to a river of money that is literally billions of dollars.
It would be weird if there weren’t a bunch of people walking around with this weird constructed narrative in their heads that they think is reality. But it’s still super jarring when you run into them and their picture has some kind of confluence with the actual real world and you can see how wrong it is in reality.