You say that informal censorship is always dictated by class relations ?
That’s an interesting take.
I always saw echo chambers (what you call informal censorship) as inability to cope with a cognitive dissonance. It’s a way to emotionally protect one self from others beliefs.
In more than a way, a semi closed environment like lemmygrad is that, I think.
I don’t see it as censorship but more like a way to have constructive conversations about some subjects.
The perspectives espoused are relatively new for me; previously how free speech and “propaganda” was understood was influenced by Chomsky’s Manufacuring Consent and Parenti’s (better written) Inventing Reality. The latter is still a good book but the understanding of how this stuff works has evolved.
We have to sometimes take a step back in order to not overestimate an individual’s agency/power over society’s class relations (which is really damn hard for us Westerners - not matter the color - because of how much indvidualism is ingrained in our cultures); it is partly why class betrayal is a big thing. Learning dialectics (still learning, to be honest) and this article made a big impact:
You say that informal censorship is always dictated by class relations ?
That’s an interesting take.
I always saw echo chambers (what you call informal censorship) as inability to cope with a cognitive dissonance. It’s a way to emotionally protect one self from others beliefs.
In more than a way, a semi closed environment like lemmygrad is that, I think.
I don’t see it as censorship but more like a way to have constructive conversations about some subjects.
That’s an interesting take none the less!
The perspectives espoused are relatively new for me; previously how free speech and “propaganda” was understood was influenced by Chomsky’s Manufacuring Consent and Parenti’s (better written) Inventing Reality. The latter is still a good book but the understanding of how this stuff works has evolved.
We have to sometimes take a step back in order to not overestimate an individual’s agency/power over society’s class relations (which is really damn hard for us Westerners - not matter the color - because of how much indvidualism is ingrained in our cultures); it is partly why class betrayal is a big thing. Learning dialectics (still learning, to be honest) and this article made a big impact:
https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/
Thanks for engaging and hope you have a good one.