The great thing today is communication and connection. I don’t speak German and I am nowhere in Europe, I’m in the middle of nowhere in Canada, yet I can instantly translate and understand your message and answer back. And everyone that reads this can do the same if they wanted to.
Not just that, we also have an insight into global politics and ideas and movements and news and information. Yes much of it is confused, manipulated, or controlled but at least we have a lot of information and if we work it enough we can access the truth of things more easily than they did in the 1930s
Those poor people in that photo never had a chance because their world and their ability to connect with others around the world was so limited.
Issue is today’s nazis have the exact same opportunities, and they have the structural advantage of being supported by newspapers with mass appeal, rich donors and social media algorithms designed by fascists and authoritarians. And it’s just easier to push lies and easy scapegoats, especially when most of the non-nazi media doesn’t want to push the message of “fuck the billionaires” that might actually convince some of those disgruntled people who are voting for the nazis.
Agreed but at the same time, the people in that photo in the 1930s had no connection to anyone outside their own neighbourhood and the only news they had was only through the established media. Today the landscape is completely different than it was back then. I’m not saying it will be better, easier or more in the favour of the little guy just trying to get by … whether or not it will be any better or not, I don’t know. All I know is that it will be far different than it was in the the 1930s.
The great thing today is communication and connection. I don’t speak German and I am nowhere in Europe, I’m in the middle of nowhere in Canada, yet I can instantly translate and understand your message and answer back. And everyone that reads this can do the same if they wanted to.
Not just that, we also have an insight into global politics and ideas and movements and news and information. Yes much of it is confused, manipulated, or controlled but at least we have a lot of information and if we work it enough we can access the truth of things more easily than they did in the 1930s
Those poor people in that photo never had a chance because their world and their ability to connect with others around the world was so limited.
Issue is today’s nazis have the exact same opportunities, and they have the structural advantage of being supported by newspapers with mass appeal, rich donors and social media algorithms designed by fascists and authoritarians. And it’s just easier to push lies and easy scapegoats, especially when most of the non-nazi media doesn’t want to push the message of “fuck the billionaires” that might actually convince some of those disgruntled people who are voting for the nazis.
Agreed but at the same time, the people in that photo in the 1930s had no connection to anyone outside their own neighbourhood and the only news they had was only through the established media. Today the landscape is completely different than it was back then. I’m not saying it will be better, easier or more in the favour of the little guy just trying to get by … whether or not it will be any better or not, I don’t know. All I know is that it will be far different than it was in the the 1930s.
Hier bin ich, habe Deutsch gelernt. Und warum? Du kannst einfach mit deinem Handy lesen. Trotzdem bin ich froh, Deutsch zu lernen.