1642 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Jan \ parent \ on: The Loss of Shared Facts culture
At least in areas they perceive as being important. In art, which could be defined as novelty seeking, consensus seems like it has never been stronger.
Without audio it's hard to tell a modern foreign movie from a modern domestic one. Movies coming out of the far east are occasionally an exception (e.g. the chinese favoring intricacy and low contrast or bollywood's dancing), but fashion has mostly lost its borders.
It makes me wonder if consensus reality has always been broken and its just failing to collapse into sameness as fast as everything else.
I like that nuance -- some things have collapsed into a singularity, some things have fragmented into shards. Which is which, and what forces determine that? Of course it was kind of sloppy of me to talk about reality fragmenting; it's easy to make grand pontifications and lose the important details.
The New Atlantis had a series on the death of facts -- I read the first article which I thought was really good but have not yet got around to reading the others. Makes me want to revisit it.
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Just thought of this paper I was reading this weekend about whether or not there was a global super-bourgeoisie -- didn't make the connection at first, but I think this is related to TFA and to this discussion.
(Short answer: yes, there is a global super-bourgeoisie.)
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