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Jeremy Kleier's avatar

One of the many things that pisses me off about this -- and note, I am *not* disagreeing with it at all -- is that I resisted social media until.... 🤔... 5 months ago, because apparently, if you aren't on social media, your opinion just Doesn't. Fucking. Matter.

The media got to the point where tweets were more newsworthy than actual facts!

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Goran Cetkovic's avatar

I think there needs to be a middle layer formed between the decision-makers and citizens - something like expert circles so to speak. Governments are colored with deep distrust, and citizens as a group lack deep knowledge to make sense of the world in a way that is not based on emotions.

Therefore, having expert circles, made up of verified members with domain knowledge and scars to prove their expertise is necessary as a model we can look up to in search for truth, or at least a higher probability of one.

Citizens should have more say on the composition of those circles, where they have the power to vote someone out if deemed untrustworthy, but overall, those kinds of models and consensus search should be the ones to follow in times of information flooding - especially in today's age where everyones' opinions enter the conversation, and there are no filters or standards anymore.

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