Someone I'm in contact with shared this left wing video and it's very interesting how the new right and the new left have identified exactly the same issues with society. Centralization, financialization of everything and infinite fake money given out to subsidize losses for the biggest while the rest of society gets bent worse every year, rent-based middlemen economies, control of information and information sharing/platforms, corporate nth degree minmaxing of profit to the detriment of society etc. In essence, neofeudalism.
The right has noticed this far earlier and with far more targeting, 'you will own nothing and you will be happy'/'eat ze bugs, live in a pod' rent-seekers
set a fire amongst the digital right while the degrading quality of news media becoming ever more of a mouthpiece of The Cathedral caused a complete dissociation with traditional media. I don't know anyone in my social circle, myself included, who actually gets their information primarily from reading traditional media. It's almost entirely things that people I trust share as they find them to be good, and things I know are good to be shared with others, enabling it to be far more ground-level and accurate and from new or better sources. OSINT on a personal news media scale as a way around the bullshit of things. The right's reaction is to attempt to decentralize, take power away from the big dogs, to return to sound money and sound economy and as few layers between what you want and you as possible.
Meanwhile the millennial left has noticed decreasing quality, even though they've not paid attention to the worst of it because the power structures favor them, but their solutions are almost entirely to make the centralized behemoths 'better'. A la the video hence shilling Ground News at the end and having a segment on how news aggregators are 'how people get their news' showing they're not even
aware of which way the right does it, and hilariously how later on in the video the host describes Xitter as being turned into a right-wing propaganda piece, as if it wasn't just a free and open debate- something lacking until then. In addition kvetching in the video over how most of the financial crisis printed money went to corporations, instead of that the money was printed and given out at all.
The solutions may be different, but it does give me some hope that we can unfuck things if both sides agree that there's a problem brewing. It will be interesting seeing the policy develop in the next 20 to 40 years as my generation starts becoming the bulk of politicians, though I feel we'll have a similar storm of fucking awful millennial politicians in the same way the current boomer ones are, except more interested in intrasocietal fuckening than intercontinental, and we'll have to deal with that first.
