Thank you for this insight and recap with some positivity. Taking the time to reflect on progress is atypical, I appreciate your approach! Here’s to a Happy New Year!
All of the points made are well taken; however, the question remains about how to get the word out to the general public and especially to the electorate. I am certainly not the first person to make the point that perception is reality. More importantly many of the points made are neither the perception nor the reality in rural and rust-belt areas.
I agree with the overall argument here. However, is the fact that the two articles suggesting a more positive outlook for our climate future are 2 and 3 years old simply confirmation of the negativity bias, or because the outlook has in fact become bleaker?
And let’s not forget how great it is that all the self-obsessed identitarians out there and all the obsessed negatively biased haters on the obsessed identitarians out there have spared us who knows how many negative stories about the class war laying waste to our society.
Or how great it is that the corporate-owned deciders of what news stories will be told never subject us to all the awful negative stories that could be told about what happens when the journalists shaping the national narrative are owned by the corporations kicking so much ass in the class war mentioned above.
Or the blessing that news consumers have almost no interest in stories that reflect too negatively on their exceptional country by going into the fundamental sources of all the negative stuff the consumers have a bias toward as opposed to the bias against hearing about the killer imperialism and the neoliberal capitalism and the runaway plutocracy that the negative stories they’re biased toward stem from.
Or the ongoing good news that the populace hasn’t rained on the parade of the society’s bright-siders by taking to the streets over all the fundamental stuff that never gets fixed because no one’s interested in hearing about it and even if they were the richer and richer people (hurray, though, for the little dip in inequality that’s apparently happened) shaping the already-mentioned narrative wouldn’t let them hear about it.
And of course there’s the blessing that Israel and the US could very easily have killed all the Palestinian children all at once and instead have saved some for later.
Thank you for this insight and recap with some positivity. Taking the time to reflect on progress is atypical, I appreciate your approach! Here’s to a Happy New Year!
All of the points made are well taken; however, the question remains about how to get the word out to the general public and especially to the electorate. I am certainly not the first person to make the point that perception is reality. More importantly many of the points made are neither the perception nor the reality in rural and rust-belt areas.
I agree with the overall argument here. However, is the fact that the two articles suggesting a more positive outlook for our climate future are 2 and 3 years old simply confirmation of the negativity bias, or because the outlook has in fact become bleaker?
And let’s not forget how great it is that all the self-obsessed identitarians out there and all the obsessed negatively biased haters on the obsessed identitarians out there have spared us who knows how many negative stories about the class war laying waste to our society.
Or how great it is that the corporate-owned deciders of what news stories will be told never subject us to all the awful negative stories that could be told about what happens when the journalists shaping the national narrative are owned by the corporations kicking so much ass in the class war mentioned above.
Or the blessing that news consumers have almost no interest in stories that reflect too negatively on their exceptional country by going into the fundamental sources of all the negative stuff the consumers have a bias toward as opposed to the bias against hearing about the killer imperialism and the neoliberal capitalism and the runaway plutocracy that the negative stories they’re biased toward stem from.
Or the ongoing good news that the populace hasn’t rained on the parade of the society’s bright-siders by taking to the streets over all the fundamental stuff that never gets fixed because no one’s interested in hearing about it and even if they were the richer and richer people (hurray, though, for the little dip in inequality that’s apparently happened) shaping the already-mentioned narrative wouldn’t let them hear about it.
And of course there’s the blessing that Israel and the US could very easily have killed all the Palestinian children all at once and instead have saved some for later.