A Changing Landscape
February 6, 2025 by admin_name
A Changing Political Landscape
John Ink2Quill
www.ink2quill.com
There is no doubt that we live in very interesting times. I’m sure many people from the past believed the same but today, in this moment, the Western world is undergoing huge changes. Some people are talking about the end of a mono-polar world and that we are drifting away from the near universal currency – the US dollar. Let’s start by running down the past 2 decades in the West from the focal point of the US.
Here’s one big change in the past 20 years: In the past 2 decades we’ve seen the Western world go through wars, terrorism, technological innovations, a boom in the spread of intellectual ideas. Thanks to the internet media the average person with something convincing to say, or with good looks, or a catchy song or gimmick can have their ideas spread all over the globe. People who make videos, blogs, podcasts and the like spread their opinions far and wide and those opinions are often confused as being facts. Think of all the UFO, vaccination and historico-politic ideas that are mostly just fiction but are treated as fact. And it baffles the mind just how the audience of such ideas really cannot tell the difference better opinion and researched fact. And statistics don’t always clarify a theory either. Numbers can be talked around and misrepresented as so many other forms of communication can be. Another interesting phenomenon is when one influencer makes a video on an unproven opinion that sounds convincing and how other influencers will grab hold of it and repeat what that influencer said and spread it too. Online rumors really do spread like wild fires. This has only been possible for the past 20 years. In the political arena we now have a digital marketplace / battlefield. This has clearly changed the politic landscape.
John Ink2quill
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