@debacle @thevril @pluralistic
#XMPP #Messenger #SocialMedia ownership
(2/n)
...described, would, strategically speaking, be an excellent solution for society to re-own its #DigitalMarketSquare, or as US film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke, phrased it:
"Should Society Own its Social Media"?
IMHO: OFC!!!
IMO, it is the chief requisite of maintaining its individual freedom!
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110281325520572275
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...and the #GreatDepression.
Listening to #MatthewCooke's American Origin Stories finally convinced me that all #US institutions were set up chiefly to protect the "landed gentry." #Billionaires are the new #aristocracy, and they are not benign. In a #feudal society, #fealty was rewarded by the feudal lord. Today, everyone is just a disposable "input factor."
We live in a virtually global #plutocracy.
This must be remedied.
Back to 70-90% income-tax...
#History #US #Europe
*On #Racism*
Very true.
Also, as #MatthewCooke in his #podcast series #AmericanOriginStories puts it,"the #US are a #SlaverNation." All its institutions were built defending the landed gentry. (I learned a lot of new details of US history from it.)
https://i.sonnet.fm/qLiqAW2LBYG87ay57
#Europe, on the other hand, did have a history of #slavery and #racism (e.g. against #Jews and #Muslims), but its institutions...
@victoriadecapua @ricardoharvin @MelodyCooper @BlackAzizAnansi
Film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke has two excellent episodes in his #podcast series on the impact of #SocialMedia on society.
This is no easy listening, but chilling and enlightening.
S1E4 talks exactly about this issue: Should Society Own its Social Media
https://americanoriginstories.buzzsprout.com/577525/12292745-should-society-own-its-social-media
The follow-up is in S1E6:
Mastering the Media Matrix
https://americanoriginstories.buzzsprout.com/577525/12432718-mastering-the-media-matrix
Everybody wondering about #SM's impact on society should've heard about Marshal #McCluhan.
American Origin Stories
(1/7)
Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism?
Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the start, as film maker #MatthewCooke brilliantly argues in the episode "Slaver Nation" of his #podcast, #AmericanOriginStories:
#Slavery' s been an integral part since its founding, woven into the very fabric of all #US nation-building for centuries, not just the, say..
What does it mean to be "Anti-American"?
#AmericanOriginStories with #MatthewCooke, Minisode 16
Original link:
https://i.sonnet.fm/awDb6fwrBS6XLk2X7
