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Globalisation, Freedom of speech, Law, Markets create winners and losers…

- - - - Manifests itself as a form of
        
        Consumerism
        
        Capitalism, in a sense, has reduced human nature to that of rational economic agents, where pursuits of self interests become the backbone human behaviour. It posits individuals as "Homo Economicus", the economic man, where humans are manufactured into the kinds of people that allow Capitalism to thrive. Individuals become a version of themself where they are influenced by a series of intersubjective encounters in which they pursue utility and wealth.
        
        Popular culture insists that success is correlated to money, status and power and these narratives have enervated individuals and reduced them to "playing the game". Individuals create an ontological framework where their self worth is proportional to the materialistic goods they own and without them happiness is never found.
        
        This provides a ontological justification for the destructive and egotistical behaviour
        
        Allowing the ego to lead can cause
        
        Jealousy
        
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        This over-focus on acquiring materialistic goods has coloured the human experience with feelings of worthlessness as well as anxiety
        
        The fountain of happiness lies within purchasing power
        
        Consumers experience FOMO when new products are released - Behavioral economics coins the term "loss aversion", where humans have a greater tendency to avoid losses over receiving equivalent gain
        
        Culture
        
        It is the soul of a society. Our social grammar. It is a shared conscious driving coherence of social and moral life. It offers individuals a sense of belonging and identity, telling them which direction to face and travel.
        
        It can begin to modify and frame the way individuals see the world and respond to it. The danger being to reduce identity to that of fixed cultural practises.
        
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      - advocates free market and laissez-faire economic conditions as well as emphasising importance of individual autonomy and limited government
        
        espouses the idea that
        
        Classical liberal philsopher Williams Hobbs - "the drunkard in the gutter is exactly where he ought to be"
  - - - pushes its desires through the pursuit
        
        Free Market Capitalism
        
        Co-determines
        
        Individualism
        
        Democracy
        
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        Inherent desire to pursue personal felicity and moral identity
        
        We are living in a 'liquid modernity' - the fracturing of information, breakdown of authority structures, multiplication of ideologies and discourse
        
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        Instead of raising flags to think about uniting as a nation, we are raising logo’s, constructing political and economic agendas causing individualistic dissatisfaction
- - - - GAFA tetrachy (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple)
        
        an example of
        
        Global Technocracy
        
        appeal to the masses via
        
        Social Media
        
        Bad feelings machine that toxifies our environment. It has become one of the most pervasive structures in the lives of Western contemporary individuals.
        
        Ubiquitous as air
        
        Social media platforms have become forms of quasi-moral action. They give individuals an incentive to rapidly fly towards particular positions on complex issues in very public ways, allowing them to become politically aligned with these positions.
        
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        Acts as a widely unregulated medium for individuals to express
        
        Can add degrees of utility or enjoyment to serve ethical needs.
        
        Amidst our technologically saturated lives, individuals feel the urge for a stimulus. It has never been easier to source stimuli.
        
        Boredom
        
        Individuals possess the desire to be constantly entertained. Boredom is kept at bay by amassing the steady steam of non-teleological distraction.
        
        There is a glorious uselessness in moments boredom. The uncomfortable silence of just the ticking of a clock. By giving ourselves in to this moral reality, we may find value in the form of reflection or intimacy with ourselves.
        
        It can be a process of 'unselfing' the self where preoccupation of the ego can shrink and shrink.
      - On demand delivery platforms (Uber eats, Amazon express)
        
        The attraction of these platforms lies within the voluptuousness of total control. There is something aesthetically pleasing about pushing a button and having food delivered to your door
        
        Some individuals are unable to retain their moral bearings amid their technologically saturated lives
        
        Technology is being framed as a commodity to solve all of our problems
        
        this alluring notion conditions individuals to feel they are able to live without discomfort and if they are, it can be resolved through
        
        Technology/social media insinuates itself into the daily lives of individuals where it becomes seamless in how they interact with it and how they mediate the world around them. It occupies a place of "unthinkingness". It instantiates a logic on some individuals where they become an ideological dope of it.
      - AI
        
        Deep Fakes unveiled the curiosities, fun and amusement of AI in every day life, unleashing a popular fascination. However, it has quickly become a ubiqitous producer of misleading information (Joe Biden, Celebreties).
        
        It has never been easier to produce passible and malicious forms of synthetic media
        
        This overflow of information into our online ecosystem may leave individuals cynical to the point where they believe no media is to be trusted. Individuals are left living superficially without any incentive to probe the qualms of democratic processes
        
        Individuals are comforted by AI which then creates specific algorithms on media platforms to align and compliment their already pre-existing views - creating echo chambers that ultimately creates division and weakens
        
        Post-truth politics*
- - - - It has become a matter of 'how dare you', rather than 'I disagree'
        
        Intolerance is celebrated and compliance is legally enforced
        
        Some individuals have a malicious intent to conform others to a specific view by coercion either via social disapproval or legal enforcement
        
        Virtue signalling*
  - - - There is an imperative to fill silence
        
        An emotional product of these ontological outputs is
        
        Blame
        
        It is a reactive instinct when someone feels another has either wronged them or wronged something. It is predicated on the idea that individuals are able to grade each others conduct and assess the damages.
        
        Individuals may use blame to modify their expectations of someone in order to reflect a wronging. A rupturing of a relationship occurs.
        
        It may even come from a place where there is a need to get back at someone else for the sake of claiming moral highground.
        
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        Individuals become contempt and thus resort to
        
        Criticism
        
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      - This unhinged manner of communication defies a predominant tenet of democracy which is to get along and to -
        
        Compromise
- - - - Opinions are offered as a commodity, becoming something we flaunt rather than something we have. We wear them rehearse them and regurgitate them. The moral conclusions are prepackaged and delivered to our screens for our brains to absorb and our mouths to recite.
        
        Humans have become unable to see the world through different eyes and register others’ moral intensity, thus confirming one in one’s own particular moral valence. The consequence is divison.
        
        In 2016 during the Presential campaign, Donald Trump’s use of social media through Cambridge Analytica to influence voters and polarise political debate conveys an instance of meta violence and unrest
        
        Post-truth politics
        
        It involves the manipulation of public opinion through emotional appeals and subjective beliefs. It has lead to the erosion of trust in traditional sources of information such as media, expert opinions and science institutions.
        
        Politicians are able to exploit scepticism of the public by advancing their agendas. In Trump's case, this includes his use of, now renowned slogans, "Drain the Swamp" in Washington and "Make America Great Again". By casting doubts over previously discerned facts, these pundits create an environment where multiple narratives can flourish. Subverting the role of informed public debate and critical thinking may lead to voters unwittingly support policies and candidates that are not in their best interests.
        
        We are living in an age of noise/age of soundbite
        
        Disagreements in a democracy is ideally interminable. However, we have now begun disagreeing over our epistemology. This is because there is no agreement on the authority of information anymore. And so, disagreement becomes incomensurable
        
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        Humans form connection with people who share similar interests/ideas and will avoid those who do not
        
        Friends
        
        Having a friend is the sharpening of the self. It is looking in a mirror and providing the opportunity for reflection.
        
        Sometimes the litmus test of the strength of a friendship is being critical of each other.
        
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        There is an urge in democratic engagement online to rage, provoke and hive oneself off the response of others. It has become a corrupted form of deliberation. It has created the expectation of heated discussions and outrage.
    - - Readers/viewers want to be enlisted in a holy cause where their emotions are drawn into a story to elicit a response on their part. This creates a pathway for public engagement, discussion and disagreements.
- - - - Minority communities begin to feel unsafe by the racially influenced behaviour of police, knocking on to middle-class Americans who witness it. The legitimacy of the state begins to come into question.
        
        Compassion
        
        Compassion extends from a combination of tragedy and identification. It isn't putting yourself in a persons shoes but instead recognising that another person has fallen.
        
        It is an extension the soul from one person to another. A condition of the heart. It is the pained recognition of another suffering of misfortune that may extend to a realisation of a shared vulnerability. It is this type of remorse that is a moral achievement.
        
        We know what it is like to be at the receiving end of a sneer. We know what it is like to look at something that is diminishing to ourselves and to treat it with contempt/disdain. However failure to feel compassion is a moral denial of a shared equality.
        
        In society there appears to be a desensitisation where things need to be more spectacular and extreme to hold our hearts.
    - - Democracy therefore is not very good at considering anything long-term or intergenerational concerns. The interests of people only belong to those who do exist or those who can vote. It is therefore uncommon for the interests and priorities of the young to be given democratic expression
        
        There however is an integrity to the daily political engagement from younger people in forms of local and communal solidarity. This new wave of social dialogue is often expressed in mass culture on social media platforms. However, these methods of registering political discontent typically dont convey much political influence as the political mechanisms used in democracy lies in the hands of those who are official representatives of it.
        
        There is a need however to prioritise the engagement of the young towards virtues that are essential to democracy. CIVILITY.
        
        Intolerance/division
  - - - When health, safety and security are at stake, individuals seem to have a clear sense of what constitutes harm and therefore when expertise such as government or high institutions, count. During COVID, People rediscovered the value of these institutions and behaved in a way to uphold the authority of these institutions.
        
        However paradoxically, the State is demeaned when they are ‘building up’ in an effort to martial goods. Individuals criticise the State in an effort to shed public funds and take them back into private sectors. Outside of times of crisis, we typically don’t value the States control.
        
        Individuals may instead see the State exercising of power as measure of force
- - - - The age we are living in is not one where ideological groupings are able to come together, empower elected representatives and give them mandate to pursue common projects. Instead, we live in an age where there is a persuasive distrust in representative politics where individuals are more interested in divesting politicians in power. They would rather catch them in their misdeeds and failure to fulfil promises.
    - - War
        
        War is not the answer because it kills the question
        
        It is human conflict in its most battered and bloodied form
        
        It is a failure of human imagination and diplomacy
        
        The rise of the Nationalist Socialist Nazi party was employed with a pernicious form of racial supremacy where the Third Reich saw a historical right to claim dominance over other nations/people
        
        Nationalism in this sense becomes as a force too intimidate other nations and put a populations moral compass into question. It provides a framework of supposed higher principles incentivising a burgeoning wave of support for action.
        
        By uniting a population under a common cause, an environment is created where there is a sense of political righteousness to mobilise mass support. A nations moral compass becomes warped to rationalise any means necessary to give their nation a platform and defend their integrity. An "us vs them" narrative emerges.
        
        Loyalty and respect are the products of this. Fear of an external threat intermingled with an appeal of national pride produces the notion of a "Just war" where bloodshed becomes a legitimised source of conflict.
        
        Claims of these ideological superiorities suggest the pursuit of them are justified, no matter the cost
        
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        Aristotle poses the Golden Mean which conveys humans should seek a moderate and balanced position between two extremes. To avoid excess and insufficiency.