Volete sapere chi è che ci guadagna davvero a mettervi in testa di essere diventati dei mastini della rete che la sanno più lunga di Gates, Soros e i poteri forti? Non sono Di Maio o Big Pharma.
Coronavirus: Social media firms make $1bn a year from anti-vax followers, report sayshttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-social-media-anti-vax-misinformation-vaccine-conspiracy-a9604481.htmlAttraverso i social, gruppi di estremisti generalmente conservatori usano bufale per creare un senso di appartenenza tra delusi e ingenui distribuiti su tutte le categorie sociali, facendo i soldi e guadagnando consensi per mettervi contro le istituzioni egalitarie che tutelano i nostri diritti e le nostre libertà.
Delegittimano ai vostri occhi gli ospedali, i tribunali, le università mentre vi fottono il cervello con bufale, citazioni fuori contesto e soluzioni semplici a problemi complessi, dandovi un illusorio senso di autocompiacimento mentre vi rendono comparse di un mondo rovesciato.
Leggete questa dichiarazione di Salman Rushdie di qualche tempo fa, perché riassume bene quello che sta succedendo (ne ha parlato anche nel suo ultimo romanzo, Quichotte):
https://bigthink.com/videos/salman-rushdie-how-an-anti-intellectual-elite-are-turning-the-world-upside-down/Salman Rushdie: Well,
I saw a really alarming newspaper article just a week or so ago in which it was—some survey had shown that more than 50 percent of self-identifying Republicans believed that universities were bad for America, really that universities were actually a negative, harmful force in American life.I mean I had never seen any group of people saying that before, so that was shocking.
And I do think this is not unique to America, because also in England there is
a similar kind of distrust of expertise. In the Brexit vote there—one of the things that came up over and over again was
a dislike of experts “telling you what to think”. And so somehow this mistrust of “people who know things” has become internationalized, it’s not just something about the American Right.
Obviously to somebody who has seen knowledge as being a great virtue and who has spent his life trying to accumulate little bits of it and somebody who thinks of knowledge as a kind of beauty, it’s very discomforting to say the least to have people who think of it as being suspicious. You know, um...
Because what’s happening it seems to me is a strange
distortion of the idea of the elite.
If you ask me “What’s an elite?” I would think more about the many, many billionaires sitting in the Trump administration.
Here’s a government with more super-rich people in it than has ever been in any American government, and that government calls college professors and journalists elites.
We’re not the ones with private planes and golf courses in the Bahamas—relatively few novelists have these things. And the idea that we’re the elites, whereas that group, that kind of 0.1 of the 1 percent that considers itself to be in some way possessing the common touch, that just seems like an absurd comic inversion of reality.
I think one of the things we see at the moment, and I tried to in a way capture in the novel, is this idea of
a world turned upside down, in which things that one thought of as being normal—solid, believable descriptions of reality—are being stood on their head everyday.
The idea of reality itself, the idea of truth is something verifiable and objective, all these things are being inverted and knocked off their pedestals. 