The right sees post-BLM riots which have led to numerous deaths and millions in damage and Antifa running amok in the Pacific Northwest and think the same thing.
We are too divided and it’s because of the media, both social and mainstream.
We are too divided and it’s because of the media, both social and mainstream.
An analogy might be the phenomenon of Complexity in software.
Which to me seems like slinging jargon rather than registering any kind of context. To me, it sounds like a misreading of McLuhan more than anything. In fact, McLuhan's point was exactly that kind of misunderstanding and misreading should be avoided by not taking the context for granted.
This is pure whataboutism, basically. Even if you're right (for the record, I think you're right), you're applying it to deflect an argument against "your" side. Isn't that making the problem you are explaining WORSE and not better?
Surely you'd agree that step one to being less divided is to stop reflexively defending "our" side when bad things happen, right?