Is there a German word for "Global stupidity pandemic due to severe ineptitude at abstract thinking and delayed gratification"?
See also: Trump, Climate Change, Social Media, AI.
Now, correlation is not causation. And you could argue that the rise of partisan talk radio has nothing to do with abolishing the FD (even though that is what allowed for the partisanship.)
OTOH, I can't think of much else that could cause the steep media/govt. trust decline in 90/91.
Jeffersonian AI?
This second chart shows how the steep rise in DIS-trust in media and government that happens around 1990/1991 is VERY strongly correlated with the rise in popularity of partisan talk radio.
I wouldn't describe myself as an FD truther. But let me contribute some charts from my latest book. The first one shows the decline in trust in media and government since Watergate, minus the temporary bump on both counts around 9/11.
I actually placed my mini-thread there as a reply to the wrong person - I wanted to reply to the the comment below, not to you. But I think I'm leaning toward your view with the data I gathered for my book...
I can see how it could be read that way and I apologize.
It was not my intention to be disrespectful. I was just alluding to a discussion that is active both in film studies and among film makers. But as is often the case, I bungled the framing.
I spoke to the AP about how Silicon Valley's growing ideological division is now visible in donations for midterm election candidates.
It's the Reaganites (Andreessen, et al.) versus either Europeans or Gen Z who did not grow up in Reagan's deregulation shadow.
By happenstance, I googled a philosophy colleague’s distinctive terminology today to find her papers on it. The first dozen search results were ALL her papers, or citations of them.
The AI Overview didn’t mention her once. It falsely attributed her (non-tech) concept to some tech bros at Stanford.
