This is a grand piece of analysis on people’s disengagement with logic, stats and a certain kind of mediated reality. The bit I’m most interested in is that which describes how many activists (myself included I have to say – up to this morning, anyway) believe all you need to do is set the information out in front of the dispossessed and they will see … Continue reading “it’s not what people don’t know, it’s what they do know …”
I’ve just seen Sky use the hashtag #BattleForNumber10, in a tweet which runs as follows: More and more, I wonder if mainstream media is really able to reassert the old structures. For me, even as I admit to being a Labour Party member, the battle really worth fighting is not for the choice the voters who we are make on election day itself. It’s whether we have … Continue reading the real battle for number 10 is the five years after election day
a) Trust Stuff, especially stuff today, sometimes quite unintentionally subverts; turns upside down; terrifies; or, alternatively, with the former (perhaps) as backdrop, leaves one utterly disinclined to even take a look. As if one was being persistently informed of impending disaster, only to put one’s head in the sand we all return to one day. That’s me now, shrugging a tad. I’ve written long and hard … Continue reading a) trust; b) wikis; c) the ten thousand; d) the heebie-jeebies; e) trust; f) transferable experiences; g) democracy
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