Comment on COVID's "new normal" = safety hysteria, digital dependence and "expert" obedience?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I think that screen time increased for everyone during the lockdown era, and a lot of people probably continue to use their devices more than they used to. But your safety hysteria and expert obedience comments come across as a paranoid, mentally ill conspiracy theorist. Do you want to expand on those thoughts?
PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I think COVID gave big-tech a rather HUGE boost, as it restricted non-tech businesses, while actively promoting tech as the substitute. As for safety hysteria, I want to clarify I don’t believe COVID itself was pure hysteria, although I do believe policy makers overstepped, and in turn caused excessive harm to youth for instance. Instead I’d argue the hysteria for COVID surrounding safety, extends into modern society, and is applied to subjects like social media bans for instance. And finally for the “expert” obedience part, or rather a technocratic approach over a democratic one, can be seen in politics being “advised” by “experts” rather than by democratic will, and the excessive presence of “experts” at talk-shows for instance, and the most obvious being social media censorship surrounding COVID skepticism, as outright “misinformation”. Even though a lot of it is purely nonsensical speculation of course.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Uh oh, it’s caught in a loop.
PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
If you mean I repeat the post’s body? No, it’s the opposite. In fact: