Brett

That looks like conjecture more than fact.

Are they fearful or open minded? I’m not sure where you’re coming from?

Feel like giving us a source for this.

The role of the news media in a democracy. Should the news media support Democracy unquestionably, should it question and challenge aspects of Democra...

That would be the days of a shared narrative, the shared myth. The myth can only sustain so many people then it falls apart. I think that’s where we a...

This is from Wikipedia; “ Capitalism in its modern form can be traced to the emergence of agrarian capitalism and mercantilism in the early Renaissanc...

Except the dynamics of Capitalism which can bring you down virtually overnight.

Yes, I know this is your position, and I can’t argue against it. It’s a hope for improvement but not an idea I can embrace.

If that’s what capitalism is, if it behaves in exactly that way, then in what way is it corrupt?

The way I see it you can view humans as a flawed creature, which would suggest our survival over time is a miracle, or that they have endured and over...

There’s no doubt we’re complex creatures. But we are extremely successful evidenced by our still being here. I don’t know if it’s true that we destroy...

What ways would you say religion, politics and capitalism have been corrupted? What’s the evidence? I don’t think ignorance, isolation and exclusion a...

However many voices there may be it all amounts to the same thing, which is that internalised conversation. Whether it’s true or not I don’t know, but...

I don’t think that’s true. I think that religion, politics and capitalism are exactly what they are, they are not corrupted by ignorance, isolation an...

I think that might be wishful thinking. It’s an interesting diagram and covers a lot, but I don’t really see people living this way with philosophy as...

This OP hasn’t really taken off. Probably because it’s not regarded as “philosophy”. But there is a big question buried in your OP. Democrat is an agr...

Thanks for the reference re. the Sapiens book. It’s been very helpful in relation to what I’ve been thinking about. I’d discuss it further but it may ...

Even a privately owned outlet has to make a profit. Maybe not to quite the same degree. But they need a loyal readership. There could be any number of...

When you can speak for yourself we’ll continue.

If I don’t think that then how do we decide if it is or isn’t?

But what do you think of it as a news source?

Do you think it is or not?

If i said The New York Times was not just a poor newspaper but a bad one what would you reply?

I’m not sure what you mean there. But my feeling is that we are not to be held responsible for standards of the media. Those standards have been set b...

Determined by my comprehension of a news story?

That’s my point. Clothes are chosen based on fashion leanings, practical reasons or just frivolous, but they’re all desires to maintain your subjectiv...

Do we want the news media to have a role in democracy when it is in effect a corporation having a role in democracy?

And then what? It still comes down to what you chose to read and then make a decision that yes, that sounds true, or yes, I trust that journalist. And...

How it happened I don’t know, maybe it’s not new, but it seems to me that we all generally take our news from a source that fits our narrative, or rej...

This is part of the problem, just whose interests? So much diversity, so many tribes, who should they serve? Does it end up with the media only servin...

No we don’t have to. We can just agree that we’re talking about what the news media delivers and consequently what role it has or should have in a dem...

Thank god. I thought I was losing it.

Isn’t it perfectly clear? It’s about media that delivers the news. What we can argue over is what is and what isn’t news.

Maybe it depends on what the people call news.

By the way I don’t think that’s true. Primates yes, but pack animals seems to be operating on instincts. I don’t see instincts being political.

Well I intend no distinction. So then I take it that you agree that humans are political animals. Would you agree they’re more political than spiritua...

In its simplest term the role of the media would be to inform people about the world they’re living in. Alongside the news stories there might be the ...

Would you at least be prepared to admit that humans are political animals?

Intuitively they do seem to go together. But I thought made an interesting comment about that. Religion's genesis isn't much to do with poetry, but Ar...

Ah, yeah. That’s interesting.

Just had a sudden late thought. Why conservative?

Some broader ideas on politics: “ Agonism argues that politics essentially comes down to conflict between conflicting interests. Political scientist E...

Yes I think I would. Communal is such a nice word, it sounds idyllic, everything in its place, everyone fitting in. I don’t think I would choose that ...

Why arbitrary and what would you add or delete?

What I was getting at is that the “hunter-gatherer pattern recognition, which gave a survival advantage over other species” is similar to the process,...

Maybe not Machiavellianism but most likely subjective awareness that leads to individualism, that leads to perceptions of difference, which leads to a...

It occurs to me that it’s similar to tool making but it led to something like false inferences that throws it back into poetry.

That’s interesting. Thanks for the post. Would you go along with the idea that humans are inherently political creatures? And that the political class...

Do you think politics, as I define it, was part of her life. Tools can’t have been made in isolation. Even if she was part of only a family I still se...

I think I might have to add science as a pillar then. Edit: but maybe science is an offshoot if poetry. From where and how did the idea to make stone ...