was initially writing this in the social media thread but it got a bit wordy. was in response to the stupid Globe and Mail bluesky echo chamber article
we all construct our own realities. the only way to achieve a true echochamberless location is to embrace the sweet release of death; the void cannot express opinions about climate change.
there is no such thing as an unbiased state, and the most mature thing you can do in that situation is to embrace your principles while questioning your priors.
i find this endless backpatting for “listening to the other side” to be quite malevolent. as time has gone on it has developed the perspective that the general centrist conception of being post-ideology is a deluded one. i am of the position that ideology lives and changes but cannot die. every attempt from moderate forces in the west to nurture a self-reinforcing cyclical moderate politics has resulted in the ideological radicalisation of conservative values in the right-wing parties. it thinks the more time has gone on, the more fair it has become to be directly confrontational within a liberal democratic context, and to stop pretending that, functionally, these values are cardinally important to people, even if they don't realise they have them. To listen to the other side is fine in a vacuum, to agree with the other side is fine in a vacuum, but as we haven't all suffocated to death, we are not in a vacuum.
this is all very high concept and theoretical but when it comes down to it, the globe and mail article is propagandisation, along the same lines of writing about the dangers of runaway cyclists. there are much, much bigger problems here, colossal ones, but instead of trying even in the smallest way to address those, you needle the people trying, in the smallest way we can, to change the ecosystem. it is a big act of closing your eyes and going LALALA as if that will make the monsters go away.
fucking canada
