{"id":72352,"date":"2024-01-27T03:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=72352"},"modified":"2024-01-27T03:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T09:34:28","slug":"creating-the-global-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/creating-the-global-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating the Global Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via: Kensho Homestead<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Creating the Global Citizen<\/a><\/h1>\n

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\u201cAlvin Toffler predicted \u2018demassification\u2019: a process \u2018in which a relatively homogeneous social collectivity (or one conceptualized as such) is broken down into (or reconceptualized in terms of) smaller, more diverse elements\u2019. This is the prize for big social networks: compartmentalize people into echo chambers and bombard them with confusing distractions and dead ends.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Confuse the words, creating a smokescreen of misunderstanding: Like: community=network=market
\nObviously these words used to mean very different things in the actual world, before the virtual environment muddied the waters. The market wants all kinds of personal details about you and so they pretend they are in a community with you. Your network of friends and acquaintances and business relations may indeed form a community at some basic level, but to expand this concept out in an attempt to create from this a sense of \u2018global community\u2019 is preposterous. It is a Benetton ad, not a community.<\/h2>\n

Yet it has infiltrated and infected the actual world as we\u2019ve all experienced. The great Convid is example enough. But, there\u2019s more.<\/h2>\n

Even small local shops in rural Texas feel entitled to ask shoppers for their phone number, to use video surveillance indiscriminately, to appeal to shoppers for \u2018community\u2019 donations and to shove their mailing list and \u2018loyalty card\u2019 at you. I seriously doubt they will draw the line at the next big thing the big box markets teach them.<\/h2>\n

\u201cPlease take a sensor bracelet at the entrance, this will ensure you a positive shopping experience.\u201d<\/em><\/h2>\n

That is no community for me!<\/h2>\n

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Via: Kensho Homestead   Creating the Global Citizen   \u201cAlvin Toffler predicted \u2018demassification\u2019: a process \u2018in which a relatively homogeneous social collectivity (or one conceptualized as such) is broken down into (or reconceptualized in terms of) smaller, more diverse elements\u2019. This is the prize for big social networks: compartmentalize people into echo chambers and bombard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8560,9614,13912,473,74,14643,14588,5594,8542,5540,3553,8543,14111,5729,5770],"tags":[1868,17028,6482,474,7806,16532,761,17029,9676,17030],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72354,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352\/revisions\/72354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}