President Joe Biden personally directed his senior campaign aides in recent days to focus more aggressively on former President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments, according to two sources familiar with the president’s edict.
I realize that. I was speaking about all the childishness. Shit like hurling insults across social media like we’re at fucking recess again. The fucking boomers are doing it too.
Sure, that’s a great aspiration, but we’re just dopamine seeking animals, and the oligarchs who control nearly all of the media (social and otherwise) know that, too. They make great money off reducing the tone of politics to “us vs them” and petty scorekeeping. They’ve more or less trained everyone in the U.S. since the 1980’s to approach politics this way. At this point I’m not even sure it’s ideals vs dopamine seeking behavior, so much as constant exposure to a desired behavior pattern.
Plus, If we’re both the spectators and the gladiators in the coliseum, then we won’t have time to realize that we’re in a dying democracy.
I realize that. I was speaking about all the childishness. Shit like hurling insults across social media like we’re at fucking recess again. The fucking boomers are doing it too.
Sure, that’s a great aspiration, but we’re just dopamine seeking animals, and the oligarchs who control nearly all of the media (social and otherwise) know that, too. They make great money off reducing the tone of politics to “us vs them” and petty scorekeeping. They’ve more or less trained everyone in the U.S. since the 1980’s to approach politics this way. At this point I’m not even sure it’s ideals vs dopamine seeking behavior, so much as constant exposure to a desired behavior pattern.
Plus, If we’re both the spectators and the gladiators in the coliseum, then we won’t have time to realize that we’re in a dying democracy.