GARAGEN

Har en grov omgang influenza og tænker over influencere, der er blevet nutidens journalister, bare uden regler, uddannelse og filtre….Yasha Levine rammer den spot on:

‘Influencers are the core of our political culture now. So much moves through them. They are central actors in the Spectacle. Many of them are on the feed every day stirring the psychic chaos, reflecting people’s fears and hatreds and petty grievances and giving them moral power. It’s all about riling up conflict — stoking tribalism, in-group/out-group hostility, painting targets on people’s backs. It doesn’t even matter what their politics are or whether you or I agree or disagree with their positions. The general pattern of the political influencer is almost always the same. It’s about conflict. Conflict is what gets the engagement, keeps people coming back, plugged into the Spectacle.’