Aiight bear with me; I'm nerding on this because I think Media is being used so poorly it's having devastating effects.
This guy Marshall McLuhan used to be a media guru that says provocative thoughtful things about what he called the emerging 'Global Village' and he just fascinates me.
A few key relevant points:
Violence is the Quest for Identity:
Well, this is to some extent for people who are tribal, but especially people who lack identity or feel marginalized. I feel like this relates to the Trump supporters who feel left out in politics, have unfortunately picked a complete fool to follow, and pursued violence or talk about Civil War or secessions. I think some of this even defines The Proud Boys. He also uses the example of people in rural frontier like areas being tough to compensate for not having much community identity, but I think people marginalized economically also have their sense of identity frittered away as they lose financial stability and status. Actually, maybe the saddest part of this is being MAGA fills this identity void.
To be fair, I think some of this even applies to BLM. Now, there where some opportunistic looters in the mix as well as agent provocateur vandals, but I think to some extent there was a lashing out in that community to from being marginalized economically and racially.
Media and Demagogues:
Just a short but interesting suggestion that Hitler gained momentum on the Radio format at the time. It was more affordable for homes, but also he was taken more seriously just as an orator without seeing his cartoonish hand waving. I guess this just makes me wonder how critical Twitter has been to Trump as media format. Not as much about the election, but deepening his MAGA support over this term. Maybe by extension, his followers in D.C. posted themselves on social media despite this being so stupid and self incriminating. Maybe they didn't care as much as they did about going viral. This also makes me think of toxic Talk Radio in general like Limbaugh or Levin or in fact how Rush Limbaugh failed hard on TV and even Levin is only allowed on weekends for FOX viewers with nothing better to do but get even more angry.
Nostalgia:
I think this plays out in different ways as so much in entertainment today is either remakes or callback references to prior decades. Some of this is marketing and branding is cheaper for already established properties, but I wonder if there is a feeling we're rudderless culturally, or feel so much uncertainty, so we look back to familiar times.
Media Ecology:
This theme is relevant to what Gordosan was talking about. He discusses balancing media formats to support each other instead of compete or be wastefully redundant. Along with this would be a better appreciation for the strengths and weakness of different forms of media which I think are lost on the profit driven idiots who run media companies.
This guy Marshall McLuhan used to be a media guru that says provocative thoughtful things about what he called the emerging 'Global Village' and he just fascinates me.
A few key relevant points:
Violence is the Quest for Identity:
Well, this is to some extent for people who are tribal, but especially people who lack identity or feel marginalized. I feel like this relates to the Trump supporters who feel left out in politics, have unfortunately picked a complete fool to follow, and pursued violence or talk about Civil War or secessions. I think some of this even defines The Proud Boys. He also uses the example of people in rural frontier like areas being tough to compensate for not having much community identity, but I think people marginalized economically also have their sense of identity frittered away as they lose financial stability and status. Actually, maybe the saddest part of this is being MAGA fills this identity void.
To be fair, I think some of this even applies to BLM. Now, there where some opportunistic looters in the mix as well as agent provocateur vandals, but I think to some extent there was a lashing out in that community to from being marginalized economically and racially.
Media and Demagogues:
Just a short but interesting suggestion that Hitler gained momentum on the Radio format at the time. It was more affordable for homes, but also he was taken more seriously just as an orator without seeing his cartoonish hand waving. I guess this just makes me wonder how critical Twitter has been to Trump as media format. Not as much about the election, but deepening his MAGA support over this term. Maybe by extension, his followers in D.C. posted themselves on social media despite this being so stupid and self incriminating. Maybe they didn't care as much as they did about going viral. This also makes me think of toxic Talk Radio in general like Limbaugh or Levin or in fact how Rush Limbaugh failed hard on TV and even Levin is only allowed on weekends for FOX viewers with nothing better to do but get even more angry.
Nostalgia:
I think this plays out in different ways as so much in entertainment today is either remakes or callback references to prior decades. Some of this is marketing and branding is cheaper for already established properties, but I wonder if there is a feeling we're rudderless culturally, or feel so much uncertainty, so we look back to familiar times.
Media Ecology:
This theme is relevant to what Gordosan was talking about. He discusses balancing media formats to support each other instead of compete or be wastefully redundant. Along with this would be a better appreciation for the strengths and weakness of different forms of media which I think are lost on the profit driven idiots who run media companies.
