A glimpse into how public opinion is formed in the age of social media, the writing from Park MacDougald cuts straight to the meat like a razor knife.
“One might hope that human beings endowed with reason would be able to understand that the “death and devastation” in Israel was the cause of the “death and devastation” in Gaza and assign moral responsibility accordingly.
“But the world of social media is an infinite present in which concepts like “causation” have little meaning. When the images on the screen change, opinions change.”
Fair enough but that said, history suggests that with the exception of immediacy, the world of social media, is identical to the world past and present.
What seems clear is that the current Israeli Gaza fight is more accurately defined as a global civilizational battle between a seventh century barbarism and 21st century western civilization. This fanaticism will not end without a united intervention from the west.
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A glimpse into how public opinion is formed in the age of social media, the writing from Park MacDougald cuts straight to the meat like a razor knife.
“One might hope that human beings endowed with reason would be able to understand that the “death and devastation” in Israel was the cause of the “death and devastation” in Gaza and assign moral responsibility accordingly.
“But the world of social media is an infinite present in which concepts like “causation” have little meaning. When the images on the screen change, opinions change.”
Fair enough but that said, history suggests that with the exception of immediacy, the world of social media, is identical to the world past and present.
What seems clear is that the current Israeli Gaza fight is more accurately defined as a global civilizational battle between a seventh century barbarism and 21st century western civilization. This fanaticism will not end without a united intervention from the west.
How long can this be ignored?
Long Live Israel
RIP Alberto Nisman
Quiet Hero
Israel won't be happy until the answer to that question is "Everyone."